Telanthropusn.
/tᵻˈlanθrəpəs/, U.S. /təˈlænθrəpəs/ Palaeontology (now historical).
An extinct hominid known from fossil fragments found in a cave at Swartkrans near Sterkfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, formerly known as Telanthropus capensis but now assigned to Homo erectus or a related form. Also: the former genus Telanthropus itself.
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1949 Sci. News Let. 3 Sept. 153/1 The Telanthropus jaw is described as of ordinary human size—no larger or more massive than many modern jawbones.
1955 Ann. Reg. 1954 466 The artefacts were probably made by Telanthropus who was either a very advanced Australopithecine or a very primitive true man.
1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones v. 79 Swartkrans, the cave Telanthropus came from, was full of robust australopithecines.
2007 Jrnl. Human Evol. 53 41/1 In the 1950s, researchers began to recognize that taxa such as Pithecanthropus, Sinanthropus, Telanthropus, and Atlanthropus could be subsumed under one species: Homo erectus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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