Wikipedia: Hominidae

Showing revision 16
Difference (from revision 16 to revision 16) (minor diff, author diff)
(The revisions are identical or unavailable.)

Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Primates, Family Hominidae

Contains Genera :

 Genus Pongo? (orangutans)
 Genus Gigantopithecus - extinct
 Genus Pan (chimpanzee?s)
 Genus Gorilla (gorillas)
 Subfamily Homininae
  Genus Orrorin - extinct 
  Genus Ardipithecus - extinct
  Genus Kenyanthropus - extinct
  Genus Australopithecus - extinct
  Genus Paranthropus - extinct
  Genus Homo (humans)

Traditionally the forms outside of the Homininae have been placed in a separate group, the Pongidae. This turns out to be paraphyletic, so from a cladistic point of view should probably either been abandoned or occasionally restricted to Pongo?+Gigantopithecus.