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Paraphyletic taxon:
Genus †
Australopithecus
Dart, 1925
(mammal)
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Entity:
Hominina (Subtribe)
..Homo (Genus) - people
..†Australopithecus (Genus)
....†Australopithecus afarensis (Species)
....†Australopithecus africanus (Species) - African southern ape
....†Australopithecus anamensis (Species)
....†Australopithecus garhi (Species)
....†Australopithecus sediba (Species)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
R.A. Dart, 1925
Original name
:
Dart, R.A. 1925.
Nature
115
(2884)
: 198.
Original rank
:
Original spelling
:
Types
Type of
:
†
Australopithecinae
(Subfamily)
Gregory & Hellman, 1939
Ref:
J.G. Fleagle, 1998
: 579.
[implicit]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
†
Australopithecus
(Subgenus)
Dart, 1925
Type, by monotypy
:
†
Australopithecus africanus
R.A. Dart, 1925
Variants
Former rank
:
†
Australopithecus
(Subgenus)
Dart, 1925
Ref:
J.G. Fleagle, 2013
: App. 1 (p. 417).
[inferred]
Different spelling
:
†
Australopethicus
(Genus)
Synonyms
Including
:
†
Ardipithecus
(Genus)
White, Suwa & Asfaw, 1995
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
Including
:
†
Paraustralopithecus
(Genus)
Arambourg, 1967
Including
:
†
Plesianthropus
(Genus)
Broom, 1938
Including
:
†
Praeanthropus
(Genus)
Hennig, 1948, nom. nud.
Including
:
†
Praeanthropus
(Genus)
Senyürek, 1955
Ref:
M. Dembo et al., 2016
: table 3 (p. 24).
[inferred]
Including
:
†
Zinjanthropus
(Genus)
Leakey, 1959
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
voormensen
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