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Proconsul
Taxonomy
Proconsul was named by Hopwood (1933). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Dryopithecinae by Pilbeam et al. (1977); to Pongidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Proconsulinae by Harrison and Andrews (2009); and to Proconsulidae by Andrews (1992), Harrison and Gu (1999), Zalmout et al. (2010) and McNulty et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Dryopithecinae by Pilbeam et al. (1977); to Pongidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Proconsulinae by Harrison and Andrews (2009); and to Proconsulidae by Andrews (1992), Harrison and Gu (1999), Zalmout et al. (2010) and McNulty et al. (2015).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1933 | Proconsul Hopwood |
| 1977 | Proconsul Pilbeam et al. p. 694 |
| 1992 | Proconsul Andrews p. 642 |
| 1997 | Proconsul McKenna and Bell |
| 1999 | Proconsul Harrison and Gu p. 266 |
| 2000 | Ugandapithecus Senut et al. |
| 2003 | Ugandapithecus Pickford et al. p. 661 |
| 2009 | Proconsul Harrison and Andrews p. 481 |
| 2010 | Proconsul Zalmout et al. pp. Supp. 4 figs. Table 2 |
| 2015 | Proconsul McNulty et al. |
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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.
G. †Proconsul Hopwood 1933
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†Proconsul africanus Hopwood 1933
†Proconsul gitongai Pickford and Kunimatsu 2005
†Proconsul major Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1950
†Proconsul meswae Harrison and Andrews 2009
Invalid names: Ugandapithecus Senut et al. 2000 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Chattian to the top of the Serravallian or 28.10000 to 11.62000 Ma
Collections (13 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chattian | Kenya | Hominoidea indet. (27855) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Uganda | Ugandapithecus sp. (28293) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya (Rusinga Island) | Kenyapithecus africanus (21357) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | P. major (27858 87341) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | P. major (22305) P. vancouveringi (22069 22070) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Kenya | P. major (22273) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | P. africanus (21340) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya | P. sp. (22286 22287 22292) |