'''''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 Primates. What little hasis come to lightknown suggests that boththey wereare well beyond the affinitites ofneither [[AdapidaeAdapiformes|adapiform]] or [[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}}.{{cn|date=March 2015}}
== Discovery ==
[[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) travelledtraveled 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.{{cn|date=March 2015}}
