Table 2 List of fossil sacra and modern comparative material.

From: Sacrum morphology supports taxonomic heterogeneity of “Australopithecus africanus” at Sterkfontein Member 4

 

Individuals/taxa

Females

Males

Collections

Australopithecus

Sts 14q

1

 

a

StW 431 h

 

1

b

A.L. 288-1an

1

 

c

Modern humans

Adults

28

35

d, e, f, g, h, i, j

Subadults

5

6

k

Great apes

Pan paniscus

6

2

l

Pan troglodytes

12

10

d, h, m, n, o, p, q

Gorilla beringei

2

8

d, h, m, o

Gorilla gorilla

11

12

d, h, m, n, o

Pongo abelii

5

2

d, h

Pongo pygmaeus

16

8

d, h, l, n, q

Total modern comparative sample (N = 168)

85

83

 
  1. a: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria; b: Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; c: National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; d: Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland; e: Department of Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria; f: Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria; g: Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland; h: Laboratory of Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Geneva, Switzerland; i: Museum of Natural History, University of Florence, Italy; j: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, USA; k: Hospital Timone, Marseille, France; l: Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium; m: Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland; n: Digital Morphology Museum, KUPRI, Kyoto University, Japan; o: Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria; p: Museum of Primatology, University of California, San Diego; q: Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland.
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