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Record Details
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11307
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- World Region
- Old World
- Description
- Proconsul: Known from numerous fragments adding up to almost complete skeletons, Proconsul is considered to be a very early ape, the ancestor of the chimpanzee and perhaps of the gorilla. A contemporary of Pliopithecus, it is often found with it in the same fossil site.
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- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 2791 x 4647
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 17250
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-17250/17250
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"Proconsul: Known from numerous fragments adding up to almost complete skeletons, Proconsul is considered to be a very early ape, the ancestor of the chimpanzee and perhaps of the gorilla. A contemporary of Pliopithecus, it is often found with it in the same fossil site.". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-17250/17250. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 25, 2024.