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Australopithecina) Jump to: navigation, search Temporal range:
Pliocene - Pleistocene 3.9–1.2Ma Australopithecus sediba
Scientific classification e Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Hominidae Tribe:
Hominini Subtribe: Australopithecina Gregory & Hellman, 1939
Type species Australopithecus africanus Dart, 1925  The term
australopithecine refers generally to any species in the related
genera of Australopithecus and Paranthropus. It may also include
members of Kenyanthropus,[2] Ardipithecus,[2] and
Praeanthropus.[3] The term comes from a former classification as
members of a distinct subfamily, the Australopithecinae.[4] They
are now classified by some within the Australopithecina subtribe
of the Hominini tribe.[5][6] Members of Australopithecus are
sometimes referred to as the "gracile australopithecines", while
Paranthropus are called the "robust australopithecines".[7][8]
The australopithecines occurred in the P