1. Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution - ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7983964Beard and his team from France, Thailand and Myanmar concluded that the fossils — which they dubbed Ganlea megacanina — came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae. Wear and tear found on the canine teeth suggest the ...

1. New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges ...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090630202125.htmJul 1, 2009 ... Prior to recent discoveries in China, Thailand, and Myanmar, most scientists believed that anthropoids originated in Africa. Earlier this year, the discovery of the fossil primate skeleton known as "Ida" from the Messel oil shale pit in Germany led some scientists to suggest that anthropoid primates evolved ...

1. PaleoParks - The Protection and Conservation of Fossil Sites ...

http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2009_BOOK_03/CG2009_BOOK_03_Chapter07.htmlPaleontological parks and museums and prominent fossil sites in Thailand and their importance in the conservation of fossils.- In: Lipps J.H. & Granier B.R.C. ... Thailand shares its border with Myanmar in the west and north, Laos in the northeast, Cambodia in the east, and Malaysia in the south. Thailand is mountainous in ...

1. A new Late Eocene primate from the Krabi Basin (Thailand) and the ...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3790496/Sep 10, 2013 ... According to the most recent discoveries from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and China, anthropoid primates originated in Asia rather than in Africa, as was ... Here, we describe a new small-sized fossil anthropoid primate from the Late Eocene Krabi locality in Thailand, Krabia minuta, which shares several ...

1. Strange Primate Fossil Discovered In Thai Coal Mines | HuffPost

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/primate-fossil-thai-coal-mine_n_4029156.htmlOct 2, 2013 ... The fossilized jaw of a pint-size primate that lived about 35 million years ago in Asia has been unearthed in Thaicoal mines. The new species, dubbed Krabia minuta, after the Krabi coal mines where it was found, was an ancient, extinct member of a group of primates called anthropoids, which includes the ...

1. Pliocene birds from Myanmar - Palaeontologia Electronica

http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1597-pliocene-birds-from-myanmarTwo new avian specimens from the Pliocene part of the Irrawaddy sediments of central Myanmar represent the youngest known fossil records of birds from ... 1982), the Eocene lignite mines in India (e.g., Mayr et al., 2007), the early Miocene of Thailand(Chenval et al., 1991), a single specimen from the Eocene of Myanmar ...

1. Exciting fossil discovery made in Popa geopark | The Myanmar Times

https://www.mmtimes.com/national-news/yangon/26014-exciting-fossil-discovery-made-in-popa-geopark.htmlMay 17, 2017 ... He said that since fossil pieces have been found in Tek and Khorat areas in Thailand, knowledge on the matter could be shared and exchanged between the two countries which have a similar geological composition. He said that discoveries in the Popa geopark area are invaluable for geological studies.

1. New Fossil Sheds Light on Human Origins - Digital Journal

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/275177Jul 2, 2009 ... Researchers say their recent fossil discovery proves that the common ancestors of primates evolved in Asia. ... Beard and his French, Thai and Burmese team said the fossils came from 10 to 15 individuals that they called Ganlea megacanina, which belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid ...

1. The dirty fossil fuel secret behind Burma's democratic fairytale ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/apr/26/fossil-fuel-secret-burma-democratic-fairytaleApr 26, 2013 ... Nestled strategically between India and China, Burma is rich in fossil fuels and other mineral resources, including oil, gas, gold, timber and jade. ... Foreign investment is currently dominated by Chinese, Thai and Indian firms, who operated relatively unfazed by western sanctions, but American, British and ...

1. Photos: Fossils Reveal Pint-Sized Primate - Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/40093-primate-fossil-unearthed-photos.htmlOct 1, 2013 ... The fossilized jaw of a pint-size primate that lived about 35 million years ago in Asia has been unearthed in Thaicoal mines.

1. First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation ...

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0017065Apr 20, 2011 ... For over a century, a Neogene fossil mammal fauna has been known in the Irrawaddy Formation in central Myanmar. ... Holotype. Left hemi-mandible with P3 -M2 (MFI-K171, collection of the Paleontology Section of the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), Bangkok – 10400, Rama VI Road, Thailand).

1. 2017 in arthropod paleontology - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_in_arthropod_paleontologyThis list of fossil arthropods described in 2017 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossilarthropods of every kind that are scheduled to be described during the year 2017, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to arthropod paleontology that are scheduled to ...

1. Category:Fossils by country - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fossils_by_countryThis is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories. See also: Fossil record. icon Paleontology portal. Subcategories. This category has the following 78 subcategories, out of 78 total. A. ▻ Fossils of Algeria (13 P). ▻ Fossils of Antarctica (20 P). ▻ Fossils of Argentina (336 P). ▻ Fossils of ...

1. Step back in time to hunt fossils with a paleontologist: In Buffalo, NY

https://www.ifonly.com/adventure/product/53516/step-back-in-time-to-hunt-fossils-with-a-paleontologistThis experience will take you 380 million years into the past to search for fossils near Buffalo, NY. Layers of rock deposited during the Devonian Period are now exposed at the surface, and the 54-acre park provides ample opportunity for exploration. With 15,000 visitors annually, Penn Dixie is ranked as the #1 fossil park in ...

1. The Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Khok Sung (Nakhon ...

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/8309/Aug 30, 2016 ... The only described Early Pleistocene mammal fossil assemblages are from terraces along the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar ( Colbert 1943 ) and probably from the cave of Pha Bong in northern Thailand ( Bocherens et al. in press ). During the Middle Pleistocene, it has long been known that there were ...

1. On the News | Myanmar | Exciting fossil discovery made in Popa ...

https://www.paleowire.com/on-the-news-myanmar-exciting-fossil-discovery-made-in-popa-geopark-myanmar-times/May 17, 2017 ... “More fossils can be expected to be found in that area,” said U Than Htun, who himself is a qualified geologist. He said that these fossils were found at a depth of about 50 feet in the sandstone layer. The facts – such as to what kind of fossils and which animals they belong to – will be confirmed in Thailand ...

1. (Thailand, Myanmar and Pakistan): systematic, evolutionary and ...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00235.x/abstractJul 4, 2006 ... In this paper, we described newly discovered fossil dermopterans (essentially dental remains) from different regions of South Asia (Thailand, Myanmar, and Pakistan) ranging from the late middle Eocene to the late Oligocene. We performed microtomographic examinations at the European Synchrotron ...

1. Paleontology – SEAArch – The Southeast Asian Archaeology ...

https://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/category/paleontology/This time, an exciting fossil discovery of the jawbone and teeth of an extinct primate species has been found near Bagan, in Myanmar. The now-dubbed Ganlea megacanina was a common ancestor to humans and apes who lived 38 million years ago. The added significance of the date is that it lends support to the thesis ...

1. Index of Generic Names of Fossil - USGS Publications Warehouse

https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1013/report.pdfThis work comprises an index of generic names of fossil plants, exclusive of the ...... 1923, On some Tertiary plants from South-East Burma: Geol. Mag., v. ... Paleontology, v. 21, p. 46-58. Ellis, David, 1915, Fossil micro-organisms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of Great Britain: Royal Soc. Edinburgh Proc., ,v. 35, p.

1. What are Species? —Tracing the Speciation Process with ...

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/adv/wol/dy/opinion/science_171120.htmlA large number of mammalian fossils have been found in Myanmar, but we do not stay in one place and dig in a way like we would to archeological sites. ... We have expanded the scope of our research to include neighboring Thailand, where we are continuing to excavate and analyze mammalian fossils from the same ...

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1. Carnegie Magazine | Summer 2011 | Tracking the Origins of ...

https://carnegiemuseums.org/magazine-archive/2011/summer/feature-261.htmlBeard, the Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is one of the world's foremost experts on the origins of primates and the family of mammals to ... To forward his theory, Beard has gone to the jungles of Myanmar and Thailandand the rocky banks of China's Yellow River.

1. Actinocerid Cephalopods from the Ordovician of Myanmar, and their ...

http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2517/2014PR010The cephalopod fossils are preserved in shallow marine limestones of the Wunbye Formation (Pindaya Group) and its equivalent strata. The fauna .... Ingavat, R., Muanlek, S. and Udomratn, C., 1975: On the discoveries of some Permian fusulinids and Ordovician cephalopods of Banrai, West Thailand. Journal of the ...

1. Fossil Hunting Package with Lunch and Dinner 2018 - Baltimore

https://www.viator.com/tours/Baltimore/Solomons-Island-Adventure-Package-Fossil-and-Shark-Teeth-Hunt-with-Lunch-and-Dinner/d4375-11141P3After a morning of fossil hunting, continue to the Calvert Marine Museum. Visit skates, rays, and river otters that live in the Estuarine Biology Gallery, head outside to the Marsh Walk, and keep exploring fossils in the Paleontology Gallery . You'll have the flexibility to eat lunch on your own schedule, choosing a boxed lunch ...

1. The Fossils Say What? | Answers in Genesis

https://answersingenesis.org/fossils/the-fossils-say-what/Mar 1, 1982 ... Some of the most devastating attacks on evolution by creationists have been associated with the fossil record.

1. New Proboscideans (Mammalia) from the middle Miocene of Thailand

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/155/3/703/2627128The structure of the first loph of a fragmentary upper molar from Mae Moh, close to that of the lectotype of S. latidens was thought by these authors to reveal a probable conspecificity of the Thai and Burmese fossils. The new material discovered at Mae Moh allowed us to make more detailed comparisons than Ginsburg ...