Homo erectus
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| phylum | Chordata | Homo erectus (meaning "upright man," from the Latin ērĭgĕre, "to put up, set upright") is an extinct species of hominin that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene epoch, with the earliest first fossil evidence dating to around 1.8 million years ago and the most recent to around 143,000 years ago. The species originated in Africa and spread as far as England, Georgia, India, Sri Lanka, China and Java.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Primates | |
| family | Hominidae | |
| genus | Homo | |
| species | H. erectus | |
| Temporal range | 1.9 – 0.1Ma |
