title: Endocranial cast and morphology of the olfactory bulb of Amphipithecus mogaungensis (latest middle Eocene of Myanmar).
abstract: A detailed endocranial cast of the olfactory bulb of Amphipithecus mogaungensis, a latest middle Eocene primate from the Pondaung Formation (Myanmar), was studied in comparison with some Paleogene primates, the olfactory bulb of which has been reported. The olfactory bulb of Amphipithecus is located just anterior to the postorbital constriction, that is, within the interorbital septum. It is relatively large and pedunculate, not overlapped by the frontal lobe, and consists of two parallel aligned bodies. The relative volume of the olfactory bulb shows the same pattern as in adapiforms, but the location and bilobed form are more similar to those of omomyoids than of adapiforms.
authors.affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506, Japan. takai@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masanaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takai
authors.forename: Nobuo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shigehara
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Egi
authors.forename: Takehisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsubamoto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005580:Fossils; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D002052:Myanmar; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D011323:Primates / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D013045:Species Specificity