2012
NEW DATA ON THE NEOGENE ANTHRACOTHERES (MAMMALIA, ARTIODACTYLA) FROM CENTRAL MYANMAR
JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
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- Volume
- 32
- Number
- 4
- First page
- 956
- Last page
- 964
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1080/02724634.2012.670176
- Publisher
- SOC VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
Gnatho-dental specimens of the anthracotheres (Mammalia; Artiodactyla) from the four Neogene localities of central Myanmar are described. Four species of anthracotheres are recognized in the Neogene of central Myanmar: Microbunodon silistrensis and a small bothriodontine from the middle Miocene; and Microbunodon milaensis and Merycopotamus dissimilis from the latest Miocene to Pliocene. This discovery extends the temporal range of Microbunodon up to the Pliocene. The co-occurrence of forest-dwelling Microbunodon and grass-eating and semi-aquatic Me. dissimilis reinforces that central Myanmar was less arid and had a wider range of habitats than the northern Indian Subcontinent during the Pliocene. This implies the possibility that Pliocene Southeast Asia might have been a refugium for some late Miocene forest-dwelling ungulates.
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- https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.670176
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- https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000305761400014&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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- DOI : 10.1080/02724634.2012.670176
- ISSN : 0272-4634
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000305761400014