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{{Short description|Extinct genus of primates}}

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| taxon = Amphipithecus mogaungensis

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| 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}}

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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 Orderorder Primates[[Primate]]s. What little is known suggests that they are neither [[Adapiformes|adapiform]] ornor [[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>{{Sfncite 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]]'' skeleton) traveled with his wife Lilian Brown to [[Yangon]], the capital of [[Myanmar]]. Brown focused his fossil prospecting 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>{{Sfncite 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|Barnum Brown discovered the species on the outskirts of [[Mogaung]] in [[Burma|Myanmar]].]]

In early 1923, notable fossil prospector, [[Barnum Brown]] (famed for discovering the first ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' skeleton) traveled with his wife Lilian Brown to [[Yangon]], the capital of [[Myanmar]]. Brown focused his fossil prospecting 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&nbsp;years later, when [[Edwin H. Colbert]] identified the fossil as a new species of primate and the earliest known anthropoid in the world.{{Sfn|Ciochon|1985}}

==References==

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===Literature cited===

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* {{cite journal | last = Ciochon | first = R. L. | year = 1985 | title = Fossil ancestors of Burma | journal = Natural History | volume = 94 | issue = 10 | page = 26 | ref = harv}}

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

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[[Category:Eocene mammals]]