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Proconsul africanus

Proconsul africanus

Proconsul africanus is the first species of the Miocene-era fossil genus of primate to be discovered and was named by Arthur Hopwood, an associate of Louis Leakey, in 1933. The Leakey expedition of 1947-1948 to Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria uncovered more species of Proconsul. Mary Leakey made an especially complete find of Proconsul there in 1948, which was for a number of decades labeled africanus, but was reclassified as heseloni in 1993 by Alan Walker.

 
 
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Afropithecus

Afropithecus was a primate that lived in Africa and Saudi Arabia during the early to middle Miocene, 16–18 million years ago. First named by the Leakeys in 1986, the genus is currently represented by one species, Afropithecus turkanensis.

 
 
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Proconsul nyanzae

Proconsul nyanzae is a species of fossil primate first discovered by Louis Leakey on Rusinga Island in 1942, which he published in Nature in 1943. A joint publication of Wilfrid Le Gros Clark and Louis Leakey in 1951, "The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa", first defines Proconsul nyanzae. In 1965 Simons and Pilbeam replaced Proconsul with Dryopithecus, using the same species names. In that same year, Louis defined Kenyapithecus africanus on seven fossils from Rusinga Island.

 
 
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Proconsul major

Proconsul major, an extinct primate of the genus Proconsul, was possibly the ancestor of Afropithecus and showed hominid characteristics. It occurred during the early Miocene and was roughly, the size of a gorilla. Proconsul major lived on the continent of Africa. Based upon dental morphology, Proconsul major was a frugivorous species.