Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 83054

Synonyms: Australopithecus afarensis Johanson 1978 (no. 83055), Homo antiquus Ferguson 1984 (no. 101706), Praeanthropus afarensis Strait and Grine 2004 (no. 386081)

Belongs to Praeanthropus according to Weinert 1950

Sister taxa: Praeanthropus anamensis, Praeanthropus bahrelghazali, Praeanthropus garhi, Praeanthropus tugenensis

Subtaxa: Homo antiquus praegens

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore