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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1 July 2012
New Data on the Neogene Anthracotheres (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Central Myanmar
Takehisa Tsubamoto,
Thaung-Htike,
Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein,
Naoko Egi,
Yuichiro Nishioka,
Maung-Maung,
Masanaru Takai
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Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Vol. 32 • No. 4
July 2012
Vol. 32 • No. 4
July 2012