Xenopithecus Hopwood 1933 (ape)

Mammalia - Primates - Proconsulidae

Alternative spelling: Proconsul (Xenopithecus)

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

See also Leakey and Leakey 1986

Sister taxa: Afropithecus, Heliopithecus, Morotopithecus, Nacholapithecus, Nyanzapithecus, Proconsul, Proconsulinae, Rangwapithecus, Turkanapithecus

Subtaxa: Proconsul (Xenopithecus) hamiltoni

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Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Xenopithecus in the database

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