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First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar)
For over a century, a Neogene fossil mammal fauna has been known in the Irrawaddy Formation in central Myanmar. Unfortunately, the lack of accurately located fossiliferous sites and the absence of hominoid fossils have impeded paleontological studies. Here we describe the first hominoid found in Mya...
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author | Jaeger, Jean-Jacques Naing Soe, Aung Chavasseau, Olivier Coster, Pauline Emonet, Edouard-Georges Guy, Franck Lebrun, Renaud Maung, Aye Aung Khyaw, Aung Shwe, Hla Thura Tun, Soe Linn Oo, Kyaw Rugbumrung, Mana Bocherens, Hervé Benammi, Mouloud Chaivanich, Kamol Tafforeau, Paul Chaimanee, Yaowalak |
author_facet | Jaeger, Jean-Jacques Naing Soe, Aung Chavasseau, Olivier Coster, Pauline Emonet, Edouard-Georges Guy, Franck Lebrun, Renaud Maung, Aye Aung Khyaw, Aung Shwe, Hla Thura Tun, Soe Linn Oo, Kyaw Rugbumrung, Mana Bocherens, Hervé Benammi, Mouloud Chaivanich, Kamol Tafforeau, Paul Chaimanee, Yaowalak |
author_sort | Jaeger, Jean-Jacques |
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description | For over a century, a Neogene fossil mammal fauna has been known in the Irrawaddy Formation in central Myanmar. Unfortunately, the lack of accurately located fossiliferous sites and the absence of hominoid fossils have impeded paleontological studies. Here we describe the first hominoid found in Myanmar together with a Hipparion (s.l.) associated mammal fauna from Irrawaddy Formation deposits dated between 10.4 and 8.8 Ma by biochronology and magnetostratigraphy. This hominoid documents a new species of Khoratpithecus, increasing thereby the Miocene diversity of southern Asian hominoids. The composition of the associated fauna as well as stable isotope data on Hipparion (s.l.) indicate that it inhabited an evergreen forest in a C3-plant environment. Our results enlighten that late Miocene hominoids were more regionally diversified than other large mammals, pointing towards regionally-bounded evolution of the representatives of this group in Southeast Asia. The Irrawaddy Formation, with its extensive outcrops and long temporal range, has a great potential for improving our knowledge of hominoid evolution in Asia. |
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spelling | pubmed-30803622011-04-29 First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar) Jaeger, Jean-Jacques Naing Soe, Aung Chavasseau, Olivier Coster, Pauline Emonet, Edouard-Georges Guy, Franck Lebrun, Renaud Maung, Aye Aung Khyaw, Aung Shwe, Hla Thura Tun, Soe Linn Oo, Kyaw Rugbumrung, Mana Bocherens, Hervé Benammi, Mouloud Chaivanich, Kamol Tafforeau, Paul Chaimanee, Yaowalak PLoS One Research Article For over a century, a Neogene fossil mammal fauna has been known in the Irrawaddy Formation in central Myanmar. Unfortunately, the lack of accurately located fossiliferous sites and the absence of hominoid fossils have impeded paleontological studies. Here we describe the first hominoid found in Myanmar together with a Hipparion (s.l.) associated mammal fauna from Irrawaddy Formation deposits dated between 10.4 and 8.8 Ma by biochronology and magnetostratigraphy. This hominoid documents a new species of Khoratpithecus, increasing thereby the Miocene diversity of southern Asian hominoids. The composition of the associated fauna as well as stable isotope data on Hipparion (s.l.) indicate that it inhabited an evergreen forest in a C3-plant environment. Our results enlighten that late Miocene hominoids were more regionally diversified than other large mammals, pointing towards regionally-bounded evolution of the representatives of this group in Southeast Asia. The Irrawaddy Formation, with its extensive outcrops and long temporal range, has a great potential for improving our knowledge of hominoid evolution in Asia. Public Library of Science 2011-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3080362/ /pubmed/21533131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017065 Text en Jaeger et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Jaeger, Jean-Jacques Naing Soe, Aung Chavasseau, Olivier Coster, Pauline Emonet, Edouard-Georges Guy, Franck Lebrun, Renaud Maung, Aye Aung Khyaw, Aung Shwe, Hla Thura Tun, Soe Linn Oo, Kyaw Rugbumrung, Mana Bocherens, Hervé Benammi, Mouloud Chaivanich, Kamol Tafforeau, Paul Chaimanee, Yaowalak First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar) |
title | First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar) |
title_full | First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar) |
title_fullStr | First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar) |
title_full_unstemmed | First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar) |
title_short | First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar) |
title_sort | first hominoid from the late miocene of the irrawaddy formation (myanmar) |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080362/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21533131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017065 |
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