Proconsul

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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.

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