 In the first description in July 1995 it was said, "The bones are probably an early member of "Australopithecus africanus" or another early species of hominids".After 1998, when a part of the skull had been discovered and uncovered, Clarke pointed out now that the fossils were probably associated with the genus "Australopithecus", but whose 'unusual features' do not match any "Australopithecus" species previously described.Clarke now suggests that Little Foot does not belong to the species "Australopithecus afarensis" or "Australopithecus africanus", but to a unique "Australopithecus" species previously found at Makapansgat and Sterkfontein Member Four, "Australopithecus prometheus".