Objectives The disappearance of the North American plesiadapoids (stem primates, or
plesiadapiforms) in the latest Paleocene has been attributed to competition with rodents …

Despite great interest and decades of research, the musculoskeletal relationships of the
masticatory system in primates are still not fully understood. However, without a clear …

Abstract The Late Middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, central Myanmar hosts the richest
deposit of terrestrial mammals in SE Asia. The Pondaung Formation contains anthropoid …

Asian tarsiid and sivaladapid primates maintained relictual distributions in southern Asia
long after the extirpation of their close Holarctic relatives near the Eocene–Oligocene …

The Mawchi Mine in Myanmar is a historic world-class Sn–W deposit within the tin province
of Southeast Asia, extending from Yunnan in SW China through Myanmar and Thailand, via …

Osteological cranial features, such as foramina, assist in phylogenetic and ecological
interpretations of fossil mammals. However, the validity of using foramina in these …

The formation of accretionary wedges with oversteepened slopes and uplifted axial zones
has been demonstrated to be potentially associated with highly oblique plate convergence …

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 …

Twelve species of fossil wood were identified from silicified specimens collected in the late
middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar. These species display affinities with …

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 …