Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Synonyms: Paraustralopithecus Arambourg and Coppens 1967, Plesianthropus Broom 1938, Zinjanthropus Leakey 1959
Parent taxon: Hominini according to D. Strait et al. 2015
See also Andrews and Cronin 1982, Berger et al. 2010, Cameron 1997, Cela-Conde and Ayala 2003, Harrison 2010, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pilbeam et al. 1977 and White et al. 1994
Sister taxa: Ardipithecus, Homo, Panina, Sahelanthropus
Subtaxa: Australopithecus afarensis Australopithecus africanus Australopithecus anamensis Australopithecus deyiremeda Australopithecus garhi Australopithecus sediba
Type: Australopithecus africanus
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (14 collections), Kenya (4), South Africa (1), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (42), Kenya (10), South Africa (3), Tanzania (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (2)
• Miocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 84 collections including 85 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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