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Proconsul africanus
Taxonomy
Proconsul africanus was named by Hopwood (1933).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1933 | Proconsul africanus Hopwood |
2009 | Proconsul africanus Harrison and Andrews p. 481 |
2015 | Proconsul africanus 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.
†Proconsul africanus Hopwood 1933
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979 |
Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Serravallian or 20.44000 to 11.62000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Burdigalian | Kenya (Rusinga Island) | Kenyapithecus africanus (21357) | |
Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | Proconsul africanus (21340) |