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| Proconsul Temporal range: Miocene | |
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| A restoration of Proconsul | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Superfamily: | Hominoidea |
| Family: | †Proconsulidae |
| Subfamily: | †Proconsulinae |
| Genus: | †Proconsul Hopwood, 1933 |
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Proconsul is a hominoid primate from Miocene Kenya and Uganda. It is named after a circus primate named Consul. The genus contains four species, P. africanus, P. gitongai, P. major, and P. meswae.
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