Proconsul africanus Hopwood, 1933 - fossil ape skull (cast) from the Miocene of Kenya. (public display, replica of KNM RU 7920 (= Kenya National Museum, Rusinga Island collection), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
From museum signage:
"At 18 million years old, Proconsul is the best known of the early apes. There are several clues that it is not a monkey or other type of primate. We known from other fossils that it has no tail, for example, and that the joints in its limbs are more flexible than those of monkeys. We also know it's not a hominid: its canine teeth (the pointy teeth near the front of its jaws) are too large. Hominids' canine teeth are much smaller."
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominoidea, Proconsulidae
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