Recent discoveries of older and phylogenetically more primitive basal anthropoids in China
and Myanmar, the eosimiiforms, support the hypothesis that Asia was the place of origins of …

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 …

Based on fossil discoveries and phylogenetic studies, an Eocene Asian origin for
hystricognathous rodents and anthropoid primates has gained strong support in recent …

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 …

Analysis of the teeth, orbital, and gnathic regions of the skull, and fragmentary postcranial
bones provides evidence for reconstructing a behavioral profile of Amphipithecidae …

Abstract The late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar, has yielded a diversified
assemblage of silicified wood including some of the earliest recorded Dipterocarpaceae …

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 …

We review an ungulate mammalian fauna of the Eocene Pondaung Formation, central
Myanmar, and herein describe new dental specimens. The taxa newly recognized in the …

Although advanced anthropoid primates (ie, Simiiformes) are recorded at the end of the
Eocene in North Africa (Proteopithecidae, Parapithecidae, and Oligopithecidae), the origin …

The primate-bearing Pondaung Formation (northwestern part of central Myanmar) is mainly
composed of cyclic sequences of sandstones and variegated clays that are divisible into 12 …