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== Discovery ==

[[File:BarnumBrown Student.jpg|thumbnail|left|Class portraitPortrait of Barnum Brown as it appeared in the (1897 yearbook of the): University of Kansas Yearbook]]

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 [[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.