Ron Clarke classifies the Little Foot fossil as belonging to the species Australopithecus prometheus.
Sources
- 'Little Foot' Fossil Skeleton Rivals Famous Lucy in Age (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.science.org/content/article/identity-little-foot-fossil-stirs-controversy (science.org)
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-hominid-little-foot-skeleton-reveals-brain-chimp (sciencenews.org)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248418302793 (sciencedirect.com)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12663899/ (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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