Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Homo according to O. Thomas 1911
See also Gervais and Ameghino 1880, Kurten 1968, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Linnaeus 1758, Meireles et al. 1999 and Schultz and Howard 1935
Sister taxa: Bimanes, Homo antecessor, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo georgicus, Homo habilis, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo helmei, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo njarasensis, Homo rhodesiensis, Homo rudolfensis, Kenyanthropus platyops
Subtaxa: Homo sapiens afer Homo sapiens americanus Homo sapiens asiaticus Homo sapiens europaeus Homo sapiens ferus Homo sapiens idaltu Homo sapiens monstrosus
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Average measurements (in mm): femur diameter 24.6, humerus diameter 18.8, radius diameter 13.5, tibia diameter 29.8
Estimated body mass: 70.8 kg based on femur diameter, humerus diameter, and tibia diameter
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (3), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Ontario), China (3), the Congo-Kinshasa (6), Cook Islands (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Egypt (4), Ethiopia (3), Greece (1), Greenland (1), Indonesia (3), Kenya (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (4), the Netherlands (2), Niger (2), Northern Mariana Islands (6), Peru (2), South Africa (23), Taiwan (2), Tanzania (1), United States (16: California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon , Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia), Vietnam (2), Zambia (2)
• Pliocene to Holocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
Total: 97 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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