What is Homo rudolfensis?
{{italictitle}}{{Expansion|date=April 2021}}{{Taxobox | image = Homo rudolfensis.jpg | name = ''Homo rudolfensis'' | fossil_range = [[Pliocene]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Primate]]s | familia = [[Hominidae]] | genus = ''[[Homo (genus)|Homo ?]]'' | species = '''''H. rudolfensis''''' | binomial = †''Homo rudolfensis'' | binomial_authority = [[Valerii Alexeev|Alexeev]], 1986 }} '''''Homo rudolfensis''''' is a fossil hominin species discovered by [[Bernard Ngeneo]], a member of a team led by anthropologist [[Richard Leakey]] and zoologist [[Meave Leakey]] in [[1972]], at [[Koobi Fora]] on the east side of [[Lake Rudolf]] (now [[Lake Turkana]]) in [[Kenya]]. The scientific name ''Homo rudolfensis'' was proposed in [[1986]] by V. P. Alexeev for the specimen '''Skull 1470 (KNM ER 1470)'''. Skull 1470 has an estimated age of 1.9 million years.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Strait|first1=D.|title=Handbook of Paleoanthropology|last2=Grine|first2=F.|last3=Fleagle|first3=J. G.|author3-link=John G. Fleagle|publisher=Springer|year=2015|isbn=978-3-642-39979-4|editor-last=Henke|editor-first=W.|edition=2nd|chapter=Analyzing Hominin Hominin Phylogeny: Cladistic Approach|page=2006|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-39979-4_58|editor-last2=Tattersall|editor-first2=I.|editor2-link=Ian Tattersall|chapter-url=http://www.academia.edu/download/55535112/Homo_ergaster_Handbook_2_2015.pdf|access-date=2020-06-15|archive-date=2020-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612125818/http://www.academia.edu/download/55535112/Homo_ergaster_Handbook_2_2015.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[File:HPCR-UR 501-03.jpg|thumb|left|UR 501 (original specimen), the eldest fossil of Genus ''Homo'']] ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Hominins]] [[Category:Prehistoric Africa]]