Australopithecus Africanus By Jay H Matternes Prehist Vrogue Co Australopithecus africanus by jay h. matternes. homo erectus (meaning "upright man," from the latin ērigere , "to put up, set upright") is an extinct species of. 2. alaskan mammoth steppe, late pleistocene (20,000 to 14,000 years ago) by jay matternes, 1975. 3. rocky mountain floodplain, late eocene (38 to 33.9 million years ago) by jay matternes, 1962. 4.
Australopithecus Africanus By Jay H Matternes Prehistoric Animal Australopithecus africanus smithsonian's human origins. Australopithecus africanus. Prehistoric primate, the taung child the australopithecus africanus child in the tree, the taung child, is about to be snatched by a large eagle. most australopithecus hominins were diminutive and gracile, usually standing between 4 to 5 ft tall, so a 3 year old wouldn’t have been a heavy burden. The three australopithecus specimens for which bi iliac breadth can be reconstructed (a.l. 288 1 [australopithecus afarensis], sts 14 [australopithecus africanus], and mh2 [australopithecus sediba]) fall among the wide trunked chimpanzees in bivariate space for this relationship, although sts 14 and mh2 also fall just within the 95% confidence.
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