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2012

NEW DATA ON THE NEOGENE ANTHRACOTHERES (MAMMALIA, ARTIODACTYLA) FROM CENTRAL MYANMAR

JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
  • Takehisa Tsubamoto
  • ,
  • Thaung-Htike
  • ,
  • Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein
  • ,
  • Naoko Egi
  • ,
  • Yuichiro Nishioka
  • ,
  • Maung-Maung
  • ,
  • Masanaru Takai

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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  • DOI : 10.1080/02724634.2012.670176
  • ISSN : 0272-4634
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000305761400014

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