New Eocene primate from Myanmar shares dental characters with African Eocene crown anthropoids

Jean-Jacques Jaeger; Olivier Chavasseau; Vincent Lazzari; Aung Naing Soe; Chit Sein; Anne Le Maître; Hla Shwe; Yaowalak Chaimanee

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11295-6

Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

New Eocene primate from Myanmar shares dental characters with African Eocene crown anthropoids

Jean-Jacques Jaeger,
Olivier Chavasseau,
Vincent Lazzari,
Aung Naing Soe,
Chit Sein,
Anne Le Maître,
Hla Shwe,
Yaowalak Chaimanee

Affiliations

Jean-Jacques Jaeger: Laboratory PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, University of Poitiers
Olivier Chavasseau: Laboratory PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, University of Poitiers
Vincent Lazzari: Laboratory PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, University of Poitiers
Aung Naing Soe: University of Distance Education
Chit Sein: Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education
Anne Le Maître: Laboratory PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, University of Poitiers
Hla Shwe: Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Mandalay Branch, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture
Yaowalak Chaimanee: Laboratory PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, University of Poitiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11295-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Recent fossil findings have suggested that anthropoid primates originated in Asia before dispersing into Africa. Here, Jaeger and colleagues describe a new fossil Asian primate, Aseanpithecus myanmarensis, that they interpret as a closer relative of African crown anthropoids.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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