Ganlea is an extinct genus of amphipithecid anthropoid primate that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch. It is possibly related to New World monkeys and often fed on seeds and tough-skinned fruit. The type specimen was officially described in 2009 and is from the Pondaung Formation in Myanmar. It is based on jaw fragments and assorted teeth. The teeth of Ganlea clearly group it with other amphipithecid primates from the area like Myanmarpithecus and Podaungia, and together these primates appear to belong to a monophyletic group (or they all shared a recent common ancestor and are closely related). One key trait shared among these primates is a canine tooth that is compressed front-to-back so that it is wider than it is long. This and other minute details of the teeth appea