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Australopithecus (australopithecine)
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); and to Hominidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Berger et al. (2010).
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); and to Hominidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Berger et al. (2010).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1925 | Australopithecus Dart |
| 1938 | Paranthropus Broom |
| 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 |
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