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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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Abstract

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.

© 2012 by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Takehisa Tsubamoto, Thaung-Htike, Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein, Naoko Egi, Yuichiro Nishioka, Maung-Maung, and Masanaru Takai "New Data on the Neogene Anthracotheres (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Central Myanmar," Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(4), 956-964, (1 July 2012). https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.670176
Received: 22 February 2011; Accepted: 20 February 2012; Published: 1 July 2012
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