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{{Short description|Extinct genus of primates}}

[[File:Amphipithecus mogaungensis.jpg|thumbnail|right|Cast of Amphipithecus mogaungensis Mandible]]

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''Amphipithecus mogaungensis'' (Near-Ape of Mogaung) was a primate that live in Late Eocene Myanmar. Along with another primate ''Pondaungia cotteri'', both are difficult to categorise within the Order, Primata. What little has come to light suggests that both were well beyond the affinitites of adapids or omomyids. Often referred to as higher primates, Anthropoidea, include humans, monkeys and apes. Deep mandibles and mandibular molars with low, broad crowns suggest they are both anthropoids. More material will need to surface to investigate what these primates are. The teeth also suggest that these were frugivorous primates, with a body mass of between six and ten kilograms.

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| taxon = Amphipithecus mogaungensis

| extinct = yes

| parent_authority = [[Edwin H. Colbert|Colbert]], 1937

| authority = Colbert, 1937

| image = Amphipithecus mogaungensis.jpg

| image_caption = Case of [[mandible]]

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|41.3|37.8}}[[Bartonian]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amphipithecus|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40842&is_real_user=1|access-date=2021-09-06|website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref>

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'''''Amphipithecus mogaungensis''''' ("ape-like creature of Mogaung", derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] {{lang|grc|[[:wikt:ἀμφί|ἀμφί]]}}, ''{{lang|grc|[[:wikt:amphi-|amphi-]]}}'' meaning "around" and ''{{lang|grc|pithēkos}}'', ''{{lang|la|pithecus}}'' meaning "ape") was a [[primate]] that lived in Late [[Eocene]] [[Myanmar]]. Along with another primate ''[[Pondaungia|Pondaungia cotteri]]'', both are difficult to categorise within the order [[Primate]]s. What little is known suggests that they are neither [[Adapiformes|adapiform]] nor [[Omomyidae|omomyid]] primates, two of the earliest primate groups to appear in the fossil record. Deep mandibles and mandibular molars with low, broad crowns suggest they are both [[simian]]s, a group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans, though more material is needed for further comparison. The teeth also suggest that these were [[frugivore]] primates, with a body mass of {{convert|6|-|10|kg|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite book |author=Fleagle |year=1998 |title=Primate Evolution and Adaptation |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=9780080492131 }}</ref>

== Discovery ==

In early 1923, notable fossil prospector, [[Barnum Brown]] (famed for discovering the first T.''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' skeleton) travelledtraveled with his wife Lilian Brown to [[Yangon]], the capital of what was then called Burma (Natural History 10/85)[[Myanmar]]. Brown focused his fossil prospectionprospecting along areas of Pondaung [[Sandstone]]. It was inIn the outskirts of [[Mogaung]] town that, he identified a mandible with three teeth (Rightright). He did not recognise the significance of his find until 14 &nbsp;years later, when [[Edwin H. Colbert]] identified the fossil as a new species of primate and the earliest known anthropoid in the world.<ref>http://www{{cite journal |last=Ciochon |first=R.uiowa L.edu/~bioanth/burma.html |author-link=Russell Ciochon | year = 1985 | title = Fossil ancestors of Burma | journal = Natural History | volume = 94 | issue = 10 | page = 26 }}</ref>.

== References ==

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In early 1923, notable fossil prospector, Barnum Brown (famed for discovering the first T. rex skeleton) travelled with his wife Lilian Brown to [[Yangon]], the capital of what was then called Burma (Natural History 10/85). Brown focused his fossil prospection along areas of Pondaung Sandstone. It was in the outskirts of [[Mogaung]] town that he identified a mandible with three teeth (Right). He did not recognise the significance of his find until 14 years later, when Edwin Colbert identified the fossil as a new species of primate and the earliest known anthropoid in the world<ref>http://www.uiowa.edu/~bioanth/burma.html</ref>.

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[[Category:Eocene mammals]]

== References ==

[[Category:Prehistoric apes]]

* [http://www.uiowa.edu/~bioanth/burma.html]

[[Category:Eocene mammals of Asia]]

* {{cite book |author=Fleagle |year=1998 |title=Primate Evolution and Adaptation |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=9780080492131}}

[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1937]]

[[Category:Fossils of Myanmar]]