Eocene primates from Myanmar: historical perspectives on the origin of Anthropoidea

RL Ciochon, GF Gunnell - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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 …

Phylogenetic, biogeographic, and adaptive implications of new fossil evidence bearing on crown anthropoid origins and early stem catarrhine evolution

ER Seiffert, EL Simons, CVM Simons - Anthropoid origins: new visions, 2004 - Springer
It is unlikely that any Afro-Arabian primate has engendered more controversy over the last
half-century's study of anthropoid origins than has the late Eocene species Oligopithecus …

Taxonomic status of purported primate frontal bones from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar

KC Beard, JJ Jaeger, Y Chaimanee, JB Rossie… - Journal of human …, 2005 - Elsevier
Two isolated cranial fragments from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation of central
Myanmar have previously been interpreted as frontal bones of the amphipithecid primate …