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== Discovery ==

[[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]]. In the outskirts of [[Mogaung]] town, 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.<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>