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Prohylobates
Taxonomy
Prohylobates was named by Fourtau (1918). Its type is Prohylobates tandyi.
It was assigned to Cercopithecoidea by Simons (1965); to Cercopithecidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Victoriapithecidae by Pickford et al. (2003), Miller et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Cercopithecoidea by Simons (1965); to Cercopithecidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Victoriapithecidae by Pickford et al. (2003), Miller et al. (2009).
Species
P. simonsi, P. tandyi (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1918 | Prohylobates Fourtau p. 93 figs. Fig. 63 |
| 1965 | Prohylobates Simons p. 137 |
| 1997 | Prohylobates McKenna and Bell |
| 2003 | Prohylobates Pickford et al. p. 654 |
| 2009 | Prohylobates Miller et al. p. 197 |
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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. †Prohylobates Fourtau 1918
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†Prohylobates simonsi Delson 1979
†Prohylobates tandyi Fourtau 1918
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: MN 4 or 16.90000 to 15.98000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Libya | P. simonsi (201726) | |
| MN 4 | Egypt | P. tandyi (53970) |