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Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthal)
Taxonomy
Homo neanderthalensis was named by King (1864). It is not extant.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1864 | Homo neanderthalensis King |
| 1968 | Homo neanderthalensis Kurten p. 60 |
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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.
†Homo neanderthalensis King 1864 [Neanderthal]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | France (Franche-Compte Region) | Homo neanderthalensis (36016) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Lakonia) | Homo sapiens (32059) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Portugal (Leiria) | Homo neanderthalensis (230380) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | France (Poitou-Charentes) | Homo neanderthalensis (43631) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Peloponnesus) | Homo neanderthalensis (184245 207778) |