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Homo erectus

Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae

Taxonomy
Pithecanthropus erectus was named by Dubois (1892). Its type specimen is "Trinil skullcap", Naturalis Biodiversity Center DUBO1303, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Trinil, which is in a Calabrian/Chibanian terrestrial horizon in Indonesia.

It was recombined as Homo erectus by Mayr (1950), Cela-Conde and Ayala (2003).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1892Pithecanthropus erectus Dubois
1950Homo erectus Mayr
1975Homo ergaster Groves and Mazak
2003Homo erectus Cela-Conde and Ayala

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—Euarchonta
orderPrimates
infraorderHaplorhini(Pocock 1918)
—Anthropoidea(Mivart 1864)
infraorderCatarrhiniGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
superfamilyHominoideaGray 1825
familyHominidaeGray 1825
subfamilyHomininaeGray 1825
tribeHomininiGray 1825
genusHomo
specieserectus(Dubois 1892)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Homo erectus Dubois 1892
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Invalid names: Homo ergaster Groves and Mazak 1975 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available