Osteichthyes - Primates - Proconsulidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 40895

Synonym: Ugandapithecus Senut et al. 2000 (taxon 135927)

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

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

Subtaxa: Proconsul africanus, Proconsul gitongai, Proconsul heseloni, Proconsul major, Proconsul meswae, Proconsul nyanzae

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Type: Proconsul africanus

Ecology: scansorial insectivore