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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).
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).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 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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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. †Heliopithecus Andrews and Martin 1987
G. †Nyanzapithecus Harrison 1987
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†Nyanzapithecus alesi Nengo et al. 2017
†Nyanzapithecus harrisoni Kunimatsu 1997
†Nyanzapithecus pickfordi Harrison 1986
†Nyanzapithecus vancouveringorum Andrews 1974
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]
G. †Turkanapithecus Leakey and Leakey 1986
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†Turkanapithecus kalakolensis Leakey and Leakey 1986
Invalid names: Proconsulinae Leakey 1963 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, 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 (19 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 | Afropithecus turkanensis, Ugandapithecus sp. (28293) | |
| MN 2 | Uganda | Proconsul major (21722) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | Afropithecus turkanensis (83629) Afropithecus turkanensis, Hominoidea indet. A (38060) Proconsul major (27858 87341) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya (Rusinga Island) | Kenyapithecus africanus (21357) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | Nyanzapithecus pickfordi (22079) Proconsul major (22305) Proconsul vancouveringi (22069) Proconsul vancouveringi, Nyanzapithecus pickfordi (22070) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Kenya | Proconsul major (22273) | |
| Middle Miocene | Kenya (Nachola) | Nyanzapithecus harrisoni (201479) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya | Nyanzapithecus alesi (200711) Proconsul sp. (22286 22287 22292) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | Proconsul africanus (21340) |