Category
page 1Proconsulidae
Proconsul
Extinct genus of primates
Proconsulidae
Proconsulidae is an early family of primates that lived during the Miocene epoch in Kenya, and was restricted to Africa. Members of the family have a mixture of Old World monkey and ape characteristics, so the placement in the ape superfamily Hominoidea is tentative; some scientists place Proconsulidae outside of Hominoidea in a separate superfamily Proconsuloidea, before the split of the apes and Old World monkeys.
Proconsul africanus
species of mammal (fossil)
Proconsul major
species of mammal (fossil)