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Proconsul africanus
Extinct species of mammal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Proconsul africanus was an ape which lived from about 23 to 14 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. It was a fruit eater and its brain was larger than that of a monkey, although probably not as large as that of a modern ape.[1]
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Proconsul africanus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | †Proconsulidae |
Genus: | †Proconsul |
Species: | †P. africanus |
Binomial name | |
†Proconsul africanus Hopwood, 1933b | |
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It was named by paleontologist Arthur Hopwood in 1933 after a number of chimpanzees all called Consul, which performed human like circus acts, such as riding a bicycle and playing the piano, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[2] Other species of the genus Proconsul have since been discovered.