Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)
10. Primates (order)
11. Hominoidea (superfamily)
12. Hominidae (family)

Narrower term/s

• Australopithecus africanus (extinct species)
• Australopithecus anamensis (extinct species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Genus containing several species of extinct early homonins that were closely related to, if not actually ancestors of, modern human beings, known from a series of fossils found at numerous sites in eastern, central, and southern Africa. The various species of Australopithecus lived during the Pliocene Epoch, which lasted from 5.3 to 1.8 million years ago. As characterized by the fossil evidence, they bore a combination of human- and apelike traits.