Proconsul

See also: proconsul

Translingual

Etymology

Latin pro, before + Consul, name of a chimpanzee when the fossil was discovered.

Proper noun

Proconsul m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Proconsulidae – a Miocene basal ape or basal catarrhine.
    • 2024 March 23, Mindy Weisberger, “Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place”, in CNN‎[1] (in English), archived from the original on 27 March 2024:
      Fossils show that the ancient primate Proconsul africanus, shown in the illustration above, was a tailless tree-dweller.

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