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 phylogenetic and geographic origins of the primate suborder Anthropoidea have long
been major focal points in the study of primate evolution. Field work in Africa and Asia over …

Primates have been known from Eocene deposits in southern Asia since 1927 (Pilgrim,
1927). Three relatively large-bodied taxa, Pondaungia, Arnphipithecus, and Siamopithecus …

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 …

Reconstructing the origin and early evolutionary history of anthropoid primates (monkeys,
apes, and humans) is a current focus of paleoprimatology. Although earlier hypotheses …

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 …

The first mammal fossils were reported from the Pondaung area, Central Myanmar (Burma),
at the beginning of the 20th century (Pilgrim and Cotter, 1916). The fossil specimens …

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 …

A new genus and species of medium-sized fossil primate, Myanmarpithecus yarshensis, is
described from the lastest middle Eocene sediments of Pondaung, central Myanmar …

So far four primate taxa have been discovered from the latest middle Eocene Pondaung
Formation, Central Myanmar (= Burma): Pondaungia cotteri, Amphipithecus mogaungensis …