australopithn.
/ˈɒstrələ(ʊ)ˌpɪθ/, /ˈɔːstrələ(ʊ)ˌpɪθ/, U.S. /ˈɔstrəloʊˌpɪθ/, /ˈɑstrəloʊˌpɪθ/ Palaeontology.
= australopithecine n.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > fossil or extinct types
Dryopithecus1862
Sivapithecus1915
Australopithecus1925
Proconsul1933
Ramapithecus1934
Plesianthropus1938
australopithecine1941
australopith1949
Kenyapithecus1961
ramapithecine1972
Afropithecus1986
1949 Ohio Jrnl. Sci. 49 136 The australopiths can be the progenitors of modern man only if the Sterkfontein fossils date from the Pliocene Period.
1979 Nature 6 Sept. 63/1 The exact level of taxonomic distinctness between robust and gracile australopiths remains controversial.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 191/2 Australopiths were a family of Pliocene fossil hominids that persisted into the Early Pleistocene.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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