Talk:Proconsul africanus

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Morphology write-up

This looks to me like a write-up of only one skull, especially the part about lacking the supraorbital ridge. The species cannot have lacked that, but it may be missing on one or more specimens. I suggest a rewrite for generalization purposes.Dave 14:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The write up also appears to be substantially plagarized from http://cacajao.tripod.com/proconsul_africanus.html 208.72.122.223 (talk) 15:07, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Additional Sources

I had to do a paper on this primate, and I have the following references to offer:

T. Harrison and P. Andrews. (2009). The anatomy and systematic position of the early Miocene proconsulid from Meswa Bridge, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 56(5), 479-496.

Alan Walker, Dean Falk, Richard Smith & Martin Pickford. (1983). The skull of Proconsul africanus: reconstruction and cranial capacity. Nature 305, 525-527.doi:10.1038/305525a0

Proctor, Robert N. (2005). Finding Life in Old Bones. [Review of the book The Ape in the Tree:An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul Science 309(5738), 1188.doi:10.1126/science.1112101 Senobyte (talk) 07:01, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]