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{{Short description|Extinct genus of primates}}

{{nomore footnotes|date=February 2015}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Amphipithecus mogaungensis

| extinct = yes

| parent authorityparent_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>

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Eocene}}

}}

'''''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 Orderorder Primates[[Primate]]s. What little hasis come to lightknown suggests that boththey wereare well beyond the affinitites ofneither [[AdapidaeAdapiformes|adapiform]] ornor [[Omomyidae|omomyid]]. Oftenprimates, referredtwo toof asthe higherearliest primates,primate [[Anthropoidea]]groups includeto [[humans]],appear [[monkeys]]in andthe [[apes]]fossil record. Deep mandibles and mandibular molars with low, broad crowns suggest they are both anthropoids.[[simian]]s, Morea materialgroup willthat needincludes tomonkeys, surfaceapes, toand investigatehumans, whatthough thesemore primatesmaterial areis 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 ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex|T. rex]]'' skeleton) travelledtraveled with his wife Lilian Brown to [[Yangon]], the capital of [[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>{{cite journal |last=Ciochon |first=R. L. |author-link=Russell Ciochon | year = 1985 | title = Fossil ancestors of Burma | journal = Natural History | volume = 94 | issue = 10 | page = 26 }}</ref>

[[File:BarnumBrown Student.jpg|thumbnail|left|Class Portrait of Barnum Brown (1897): University of Kansas Yearbook]]

In early 1923, notable fossil prospector, [[Barnum Brown]] (famed for discovering the first ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex|T. rex]]'' skeleton) travelled with his wife Lilian Brown to [[Yangon]], the capital of [[Myanmar]]. 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 H. Colbert]] identified the fossil as a new species of primate and the earliest known anthropoid in the world.

== References ==

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== References ==

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* {{cite website |author=Ciochon |year=1985 |title=Fossil Ancestors of Burma |url=http://www.uiowa.edu/~bioanth/burma.html}}

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

[[Category:Primates]]

[[Category:Eocene mammals]]

[[Category:Prehistoric apes]]

[[Category:Eocene mammals of Asia]]

[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1937]]

[[Category:PrimatesFossils of Myanmar]]