New Myanmar middle Eocene anthropoids. An Asian origin for catarrhines?;Nouveaux restes d'anthropoides dans l'Eocene moyen du Myanmar. Une origine asiatique des catarrhiniens?

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III

Volumn 321, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 953-959

  Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a   Niang Soe, U Aung ^c   Ko Aung, U Aye ^b   Benammi, Mouloud ^a   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^c   Ducrocq, Rose Marie ^a   Tun, Than ^d   Tin Thein, U ^e   Ducrocq, Stéphane ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Dagon University   (Myanmar)

^c Geological Survey Division ^*

^d Ministry of Defence   (Myanmar)

^e Taunggyi University   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Africa; Anthropoids; Asia; Myanmar; Phylogeny; Primates; Thailand

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EOCENE; FOSSIL; NEW RECORD; PRIMATE;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; ASIA; FOSSIL; MANDIBLE; MYANMAR; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; THAILAND;

MYANMAR; THAILAND;

AMPHIPITHECUS; ANTHROPOIDEA; HOMINIDAE; PONDAUNGIA; PRIMATES; SIAMOPITHECUS;

EID: 0032204976     PISSN: 07644469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0764-4469(99)80010-9     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. [1] Colbert E.H., Fossil mammals from Burma in the American Museum of Natural History, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74 (1938) 255-436.
2. [2] Simons E.L., New fossil apes from Egypt and the initial differentiation of Hominoidea, Nature 205 (1965) 135-139.
3. [3] Simons E.L., Relationships of Amphipithecus and Oligopithecus, Nature 232 (1971) 489-491.
4. [4] Ciochon R.L., Savage D.E., Thaw Tint, Ba Maw., Anthropoid origins in Asia? New discovery of Amphipithecus from the Eocene of Burma, Science 229 (1985) 756-759.
5. [5] Szalay F.S., Delson E., Evolutionary History of the Primates, Academic Press, New York, 1979.
6. [6] Simons E.L., Pilbeam D.R., Preliminary revision of the Dryopithecinae (Pongidae, Anthropoidea), Folia Primatol. 3 (1965) 81-152.
7. [7] Ciochon R.L., Holroyd P.A., The Asian origin of Anthropoidea revisited, in: Fleagle J.G., Kay R.F. (eds.), Anthropoid Origins, Plenum Press, New York, 1994, pp. 143-162.
8. [8] Chaimanee Y., Jaeger J.J., Suteethorn V., Ducrocq S., A new late Eocene anthropoïd primate from Thailand, Nature 385 (1997) 429-431.
9. [9] Godinot M., A summary of adapiform systematics and phylogeny, Folia Primatol. 69 (suppl. 1) (1998) 218-249.
10. [10] Holroyd P.A., Ciochon R.L., Relative ages of Eocene primate-bearing deposits of Asia, in: Fleagle J.G., Kay R.F. (eds.), Anthropoid Origins, Plenum Press, New York, 1994, pp. 123-141.
11. [11] Fleagle J.G., Kay R.F., The phyletic position of the Parapithecidae, J. Human Evol. 16 (1987) 483-532.
12. [12] Kay R.F., Williams B.A. 1994. Dental evidence for anthropoid origins, in: Fleagle J.G., Kay R.F. (eds.), Anthropoid Origins, Plenum Press, New York, 1994, pp. 361-445.
13. [13] Maw B., Ciochon R.L., Savage D.E., Late Eocene of Burma yields earliest anthropoid primate, Pondaungia cotteri, Nature 282 (1979) 65-67.
14. [14] Pilgrim G.E., A Sivapithecus palate and other primate fossils from India, Mem. Geol. Surv. India 14 (1927) 1-24.
15. [15] Godinot M. 1994. Early North African primates and their significance for the origin of Simiiformes (= Anthropoidea), in: Fleagle J.G., Kay R.F. (eds.), Anthropoid Origins, Plenum Press, New York, 1994. pp. 235-295.
16. [16] Beard K.C., Tong Y., Dawson M.R., Wang J., Huang X., Earliest complete dentition of an anthropoid primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Shanxi Province, China, Science 272 (1996) 82-85.
17. [17] Szalay F.S., Late Eocene Amphipithecus and the origins of catarrhine primates, Nature 227 (1970) 355-357.
18. [18] Szalay F.S., Amphipithecus revisited, Nature 236 (1972) 179.
19. [19] Jaeger J.J., Chaimanee Y., Ducrocq S., Origin and evolution of Asian hominoid primates. Paleontological data versus molecular data, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sci. Vie 321 (1998) 73-78.
20. [20] Ducrocq S., The anthracotheriid genus Bothriogenys, (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) in Africa and Asia during the Paleogene: phylogenetical and paleobiogeographical relationships. Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. Ser. B 250 (1997) 1-44.