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 …

Fossil mammals from the Late Miocene of Vietnam

HH Covert, MW Hamrick, T Dzanh… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Very little is known about the evolutionary history of mammals in Southeast Asia, where
Myanmar(Burma) and Thailand provide the vast majority of evidence for mammalian …

The anthropoid status of a primate from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation (Central Myanmar): tarsal evidence

L Marivaux, Y Chaimanee, S Ducrocq… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Primate dental and postcranial remains from the Eocene Pondaung Formation (Myanmar)
have been the subject of considerable confusion since their initial discoveries, and their …

Chaungtha, a new Middle Miocene mammal locality from the Irrawaddy Formation, Myanmar

O Chavasseau, Y Chaimanee, ST Tun, AN Soe… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2006 - Elsevier
We describe here a mammalian assemblage originating from the locality of Chaungtha
(Irrawaddy Formation, Myanmar). It represents one of the rare descriptions of a precisely …

Siamopithecus eocaenus, Anthropoid Primate from the Late Eocene of Krabi, Thailand

Y Chaimanee - Anthropoid origins: new visions, 2004 - Springer
An overview of the available remains of the Thai Late Eocene primate Siamopithecus
eocaenus led to the conclusion that the species is an anthropoid, a group which is now …

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 …

Relative ages of Eocene primate-bearing deposits of Asia

PA Holroyd, RL Ciochon - Anthropoid origins, 1994 - Springer
Paleontologists have often looked to Asia as a center of origin for anthropoid primates (eg,
Pilgrim, 1927; Colbert, 1937, 1938; Ba Maw et al., 1979; Gingerich, 1980; Ciochon and …

Neogene mammalian fauna in Myanmar

M Takai, H Saegusa - Asian paleoprimatology, 2006 - repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
In this paper, we review the Neogene mammalian fossils from the Pegu and Irrawaddy beds
of Myanmar, comparing them with the contemporaneous mammalian faunas of south Asia …

A lower jaw of Pondaungia cotteri from the Late Middle Eocene Pondaung Formation (Myanmar) confirms its anthropoid status

Y Chaimanee, T Thein, S Ducrocq… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
Pondaungia cotteri is the largest primate known from the Late Middle Eocene Pondaung
Formation, Myanmar. Its taxonomic status has been the subject of much debate because of …

A summary of the Pondaung fossil expeditions

T Tsubamoto, N Egi, M Takai… - Asian …, 2006 - repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
We briefly summarize the fossil expeditions of the Eocene Pondaung Formation of central
Myanmar by the Kyoto University field parties with Myanmar researchers during the field …