Sahelanthropus tchadensis

Approximate Date:  7 MYA

Geographic Distribution: Central Africa

Fact: Oldest hominid find

Ardipithecus kadabba

Approximate Date:  5.8-5.2 MYA

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact:

Ardipithecus ramidus

Approximate Date:  4.4 mya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact: Part of the Aramis finds

Australopithecus anamensis

Approximate Date:  4.2-3.8 mya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact: 

Australopithecus afarensis

Approximate Date:  3.9-3.0 mya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

 Lucy

Fact: Large amount of specimens, oldest evidence of butchering

Australopithecus bahrelghazalia 

Approximate Date:  3.5-3.0 mya

Geographic Distribution: Central Africa

Fact: Unsure of where it fits into the evolutionary pattern

Kenyanthropus platyops

Approximate Date:  3.5-3.2 mya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact: Plat = Flat faced, hard to interpret due to old age with derived face trait

Australopithecus africanus

Approximate Date:  2.5-1.3 mya

Geographic Distribution: South Africa

Fact: First Australopithecine ever found, mosaic evolution first discovered with this specimen, "Taung Baby"

Australopithecus garhi

Approximate Date:  2.5 mya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact: Found with evidence of butchered animal remains

Paranthropus aethiopicus

Approximate Date:  2.8-2.2 mya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact:  "Black Skull", Very rugged, huge sagittal crest, smallest adult brain of any well established hominid

Paranthropus boisei

Approximate Date:  2.2-1 mya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact:  "Nuttcracker man", Found in a living site of Homo habilis, possible food source of habilis

Paranthropus robustus

Approximate Date:  2.2-1.5 mya

Geographic Distribution: South Africa

Fact

Homo habilis

Approximate Date:  2.4-1.65 mya

Geographic Distribution: East & South Africa

Fact:   "Handy Man", Transitional hominid, more sophisticated, slightly larger brain

Australopithecus sediba 

Approximate Date:  1.95 mya

Geographic Distribution: South Africa

Fact:   Recent find by a 9 year old boy, two skulls (female in twenties and boy age 12), bipedal with long arms, 4-4.5 feet tall

Home erectus

Approximate Date:  1.8-50 kya

Geographic Distribution: Asia

Fact:   Same as ergaster, but in Asia

Homo ergaster

Approximate Date: 1.8 mya - 50 kya

Geographic Distribution: Africa

Fact:   Same as erectus, but in Africa

Homo antecessor

Approximate Date: 850 - 780 kya

Geographic Distribution: Spain

Fact:   

Homo heidelbergensis

Approximate Date: 850 - 200 kya

Geographic Distribution: Europe and Africa

Fact:   

Home sapiens neandertalensis

Approximate Date: 300 - 24 kya

Geographic Distribution: Europe, Western and Central Asia

Fact:   

Homo sapiens idaltu

Approximate Date: 160-154 kya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact:   "Herto Remains"

Homo floresiensis

Approximate Date: 18kya

Geographic Distribution: Flores Island, Indonesia

Fact:   

Homo sapiens sapiens

Approximate Date: 120 kya - present

Geographic Distribution: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia

Fact:   

Orrorin tugenensis

Approximate Date: 5.6 - 6.2 mya

Geographic Distribution: East Africa

Fact:   "Original Man"