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 …

New adapiform primate fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt

ER Seiffert, DM Boyer, JG Fleagle, GF Gunnell… - Historical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Caenopithecine adapiform primates are currently represented by two genera from the late
Eocene of Egypt (Afradapis and Aframonius) and one from the middle Eocene of …

Vertical clinging and leaping revisited: vertical support use as the ancestral condition of strepsirrhine primates

DL Gebo - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A re‐examination of primate foot and knee anatomy suggests that strepsirrhine primates
(adapiforms and lemuriforms) possess a unique and derived hindlimb related to their use of …

Predicting euarchontan body mass: a comparison of tarsal and dental variables

GS Yapuncich, JT Gladman… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Multiple meaningful ecological characterizations of a species revolve around
body mass. Because body mass cannot be directly measured in extinct taxa, reliable body …

Diet and habitat of Siwalik primates Indopithecus, Sivaladapis and Theropithecus

R Patnaik, TE Cerling, KT Uno, JG Fleagle - Annales Zoologici Fennici, 2014 - BioOne
We present dental enamel stable carbon and oxygen isotope data, histological analyses of
daily cross striations and perikymata, and microwear data of Late Miocene primates …

Rudimentary pedal grasping in mice and implications for terminal branch arboreal quadrupedalism

C Byron, H Kunz, H Matuszek, S Lewis… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We use an outbred laboratory mouse strain (ICR/CD‐1, Charles River Laboratories, Inc.) to
model a type of preprimate locomotion associated with rudimentary pedal grasping. Ten …

Astragalar morphology of Afradapis, a large adapiform primate from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt

DM Boyer, ER Seiffert… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The∼ 37 million‐year‐old Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ‐2), in the Birket Qarun Formation of
Egypt's Fayum Depression, yields evidence for a diverse primate fauna, including the …

[HTML][HTML] Primate tarsal bones from Egerkingen, Switzerland, attributable to the middle Eocene adapiform Caenopithecus lemuroides

ER Seiffert, L Costeur, DM Boyer - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Abstract The middle Eocene species Caenopithecus lemuroides, known solely from the
Egerkingen fissure fillings in Switzerland, was the first Paleogene fossil primate to be …

New basal ruminants from the Eocene of the Pondaung Formation, Myanmar

S Ducrocq, AN Soe, O Chavasseau… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Two new genera and species of small basal ruminants are described from the middle
Eocene Pondaung Formation in Myanmar. One form, Paukkaungmeryx minutus, gen. et sp …

New remains of Siamotherium pondaungensis (Cetartiodactyla, Hippopotamoidea) from the Eocene of Pondaung, Myanmar: Paleoecologic and phylogenetic …

AN Soe, O Chavasseau, Y Chaimanee… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We describe an exceptionally well preserved skull of a small anthracothere from the late
middle Eocene of the Pondaung Formation that can be confidently attributed to …