†family Proconsulidae Leakey 1963 (ape)

Mammalia - Primates - Proconsulidae

Parent taxon: Hominoidea according to I. S. Zalmout et al. 2010

See also Andrews 1992, Anyonge 1991, Harrison and Andrews 2009, Harrison and Gu 1999 and McNulty et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Chororapithecus, Ekembo, Equatorius, Hominidae, Hylobatidae, Langsonia, Rukwapithecus, Samburupithecus

Subtaxa: Afropithecus Heliopithecus Morotopithecus Nacholapithecus Nyanzapithecus Proconsul Proconsulinae Rangwapithecus Turkanapithecus Xenopithecus

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Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Kenya (17 collections), Uganda (2)

• Oligocene of Kenya (1)

Total: 20 collections including 22 occurrences

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