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Proconsulidae

Mammalia - Primates - Proconsulidae

Taxonomy

Proconsulidae was named by Leakey (1963). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Catarrhini by Harrison and Gu (1999); and to Hominoidea by Anyonge (1991), Andrews (1992), Harrison and Andrews (2009), Zalmout et al. (2010) and McNulty et al. (2015).

Subtaxa

Afropithecus, Heliopithecus, Morotopithecus, Nacholapithecus, Nyanzapithecus, Proconsul (syn. Ugandapithecus), Proconsulinae, Rangwapithecus, Turkanapithecus, Xenopithecus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1963	Proconsulidae Leakey
1991	Proconsulidae Anyonge p. 388
1992	Proconsulidae Andrews p. 642
1999	Proconsulidae Harrison and Gu p. 264
2009	Proconsulidae Harrison and Andrews p. 481
2010	Proconsulidae Zalmout et al. pp. Supp. 4 figs. Table 2
2015	Proconsulidae McNulty et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
infraorder	Haplorhini	(Pocock 1918)
—	Anthropoidea	(Mivart 1864)
infraorder	Catarrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
superfamily	Hominoidea	Gray 1825
family	Proconsulidae	Leakey 1963
family	Proconsulidae	Leakey 1963

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.

Fm. †Proconsulidae Leakey 1963

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G. †Afropithecus Leakey and Leakey 1986

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†Afropithecus turkanensis Leakey and Leakey 1986

G. †Heliopithecus Andrews and Martin 1987

G. †Morotopithecus Gebo et al. 1997

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†Morotopithecus bishopi Gebo et al. 1997

G. †Nacholapithecus Ishida et al. 1999

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†Nacholapithecus kerioi Ishida et al. 1999