| Abstract: |
In Southeast Asia, primate fossils were found which will be an important indication for the study of the origins of hominids in this area. All of the primate fossils from the oldest period were found in Thailand, Burma, and the southern part of China. In Thailand were found a primate tooth of a large adapid of the size of Notharctus robustus of the Middle Eocene, a lower molar described as a new species of the genus Dendropithecus orientalis n.sp. of Middle Miocene epoch and one fossilized tooth which looks very similar to Dryopithecus sp.? of Middle Miocene epoch. In Burma were found dental fragments of Pondaugia cotteri of the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene epoch. In the southwest of China were found ten teeth of Dryopithecus kaiyuanensis in the Tertiary lignite deposits at Xiao-Long-Tan, Kaiyuan county, Yunnan.
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