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Australopithecus (australopithecine)

Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Australopithecus Dart
1938Plesianthropus Broom
1959Zinjanthropus Leakey
1967Paraustralopithecus Arambourg and Coppens
1977Australopithecus Pilbeam et al. p. 695
1982Australopithecus Andrews and Cronin p. 545
1994Australopithecus White et al. p. 306
1997Australopithecus Cameron
1997Australopithecus McKenna and Bell
2003Australopithecus Cela-Conde and Ayala
2010Australopithecus Berger et al. p. 195
2010Australopithecus Harrison
2015Australopithecus Strait et al.

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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
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
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
genusAustralopithecusDart 1925

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 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