A new primate from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar and the monophyly of Burmese amphipithecids

KC Beard, L Marivaux… - … of the Royal …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The family Amphipithecidae is one of the two fossil primate taxa from Asia that appear to be
early members of the anthropoid clade. Ganlea megacanina, gen. et sp. nov., is a new …

[PDF][PDF] New assessment of Pondaungia and Amphipithecus (Primates) from the late middle Eocene of Myanmar, with a comment on'Amphipithecidae'

GF Gunnell, RL Ciochon, PD Gingerich, PA Holroyd - 2002 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Fossil primates have been known from the late middle to late Eocene Pondaung Formation
of Myanmar since the description of Pondaungia cotteri in 1927. Three additional primate …

The latest middle Eocene primate fauna in Pondaung area, Myanmar

M Takai, N Shigehara, T Tsubamoto… - Asian …, 2000 - repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
So far four primate taxa have been discovered from the latest middle Eocene Pondaung
Formation, Central Myanmar (= Burma): Pondaungia cotteri, Amphipithecus mogaungensis …

New sivaladapid primates from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar and the anthropoid status of Amphipithecidae

KC Beard, L Marivaux, ST Tun, AN Soe… - Bulletin of Carnegie …, 2007 - BioOne
Fossil primates from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar have figured
prominently in recent efforts to reconstruct the early evolutionary history of anthropoids. The …

A new anthropoid from the latest middle Eocene of Pondaung, central Myanmar

M Takai, N Shigehara, AK Aung, ST Tun… - Journal of Human …, 2001 - Elsevier
A new genus and species of medium-sized fossil primate, Myanmarpithecus yarshensis, is
described from the lastest middle Eocene sediments of Pondaung, central Myanmar …

Amphipithecine primates are stem anthropoids: cranial and postcranial evidence

JJ Jaeger, C Sein, DL Gebo… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since their discovery in 1927, the phylogenetic status of the Myanmar amphipithecines has
been highly debated. These fossil primates are recognized either as anthropoids or as …

Geographical and body size distributions of the Pondaung primates with a comment on the taxonomic assignment of NMMP 20, postcranium of an amphipithecid

N Egi, ST Tun, M Takai, N SHIGEHARA… - Anthropological …, 2004 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Relative abundance and body size were compared among six primate genera found from
the Pondaung Formation (latest middle Eocene, Myanmar). Pondaungia, consisting of two …

Eocene large-bodied primates of Myanmar and Thailand: morphological considerations and phylogenetic affinities

RL Ciochon, GF Gunnell - Anthropoid origins: new visions, 2004 - Springer
Primates have been known from Eocene deposits in southern Asia since 1927 (Pilgrim,
1927). Three relatively large-bodied taxa, Pondaungia, Arnphipithecus, and Siamopithecus …

Chronology of primate discoveries in Myanmar: influences on the anthropoid origins debate

RL Ciochon, GF Gunnell - American Journal of Physical …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The history of primate paleontology in Asia is long and complex, beginning with the first
discoveries of fossil primates on the Indian subcontinent in the early 1830s. The first Eocene …

The paleobiology of Amphipithecidae, south Asian late Eocene primates

RF Kay, D Schmitt, CJ Vinyard, JMG Perry… - Journal of Human …, 2004 - Elsevier
Analysis of the teeth, orbital, and gnathic regions of the skull, and fragmentary postcranial
bones provides evidence for reconstructing a behavioral profile of Amphipithecidae …