†Proconsul Hopwood 1933 (ape)
Mammalia - Primates - Proconsulidae
Synonym: Ugandapithecus Senut et al. 2000
Parent taxon: Proconsulidae according to I. S. Zalmout et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Afropithecus, Heliopithecus, Morotopithecus, Nacholapithecus, Nyanzapithecus, Proconsulinae, Rangwapithecus, Turkanapithecus, Xenopithecus
Subtaxa: Proconsul africanus, Proconsul gitongai, Proconsul heseloni, Proconsul major, Proconsul meswae, Proconsul nyanzae
Type: Proconsul africanus
Ecology: arboreal omnivore