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Bahinia pondaungensis

Mammalia - Primates - Eosimiidae

Taxonomy

Bahinia pondaungensis was named by Jaeger et al. (1999). Its type specimen is NMMP 15, a partial skull (left and right maxilla and associated jaw fragment), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bahin 4, Pondaung Sandstone, which is in a Bartonian terrestrial sandstone/siltstone in the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar. It is the type species of Bahinia.

Synonyms

Eosimias paukkaungensis was named by Takai et al. (2005) [provisionally assigned to the genus Eosimias (cf. Eosimias)]. It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Bahinia pondaungensis by Chaimanee et al. (2012).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1999	Bahinia pondaungensis Jaeger et al. p. 528 figs. 1, 2.a-c
2005	Eosimias paukkaungensis Takai et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
infraorder	Haplorhini	(Pocock 1918)
—	Anthropoidea	(Mivart 1864)
family	Eosimiidae
genus	Bahinia
species	pondaungensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Bahinia pondaungensis Jaeger et al. 1999

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Invalid names: Eosimias paukkaungensis Takai et al. 2005 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

arborealo

Diet:

omnivoreo

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-26 13:27:51

Modified:

2005-08-26 15:27:51

Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Bartonian or 41.03000 to 37.71000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	Myanmar	Bahinia pondaungensis (type locality: 41331) Eosimias paukkaungensis (41393)