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Taxonomy
Australopithecus was named by Dart (1925). It is not extant. Its type is Australopithecus africanus.
It was assigned to Hominoidea by White et al. (1994); to Homininae by Andrews and Cronin (1982) and Cameron (1997); to Australopithecinae by Pilbeam et al. (1977) and Cela-Conde and Ayala (2003); to Hominina by Harrison (2010); to Hominidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Berger et al. (2010); and to Hominini by Strait et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Hominoidea by White et al. (1994); to Homininae by Andrews and Cronin (1982) and Cameron (1997); to Australopithecinae by Pilbeam et al. (1977) and Cela-Conde and Ayala (2003); to Hominina by Harrison (2010); to Hominidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Berger et al. (2010); and to Hominini by Strait et al. (2015).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1925 | Australopithecus Dart |
1938 | Plesianthropus Broom |
1959 | Zinjanthropus Leakey |
1967 | Paraustralopithecus Arambourg and Coppens |
1977 | Australopithecus Pilbeam et al. p. 695 |
1982 | Australopithecus Andrews and Cronin p. 545 |
1994 | Australopithecus White et al. p. 306 |
1997 | Australopithecus Cameron |
1997 | Australopithecus McKenna and Bell |
2003 | Australopithecus Cela-Conde and Ayala |
2010 | Australopithecus Berger et al. p. 195 |
2010 | Australopithecus Harrison |
2015 | Australopithecus Strait et al. |
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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.
G. †Australopithecus Dart 1925 [australopithecine]
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†Australopithecus afarensis Johanson et al. 1978
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Invalid names: Homo antiquus Ferguson 1984 [synonym], Homo antiquus praegens Ferguson 1989 [invalid subgroup], Praeanthropus afarensis Strait and Grine 2004 [synonym], Praeanthropus africanus Weinert 1950 [synonym]
†Australopithecus africanus Dart 1925
†Australopithecus anamensis Ward et al. 1999
†Australopithecus deyiremeda Haile-Selassie et al. 2015
†Australopithecus garhi Asfaw et al. 1999
†Australopithecus sediba Berger et al. 2010
Invalid names: Paraustralopithecus Arambourg and Coppens 1967 [synonym], Plesianthropus Broom 1938 [synonym], Zinjanthropus Leakey 1959 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available