Triniln.
/ˈtriːnɪl/, U.S. /ˈtriˌnɪl/ Palaeontology.
Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid (‘Java man’) known from fossil remains found at Trinil on the banks of the Bengawan Solo river in Java, which was the first fossil hominid to be found outside Europe and was later assigned to Homo erectus.Cf. Java n. 6, Pithecanthropus n. 2, Solo n.2
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Trinil1896
Talgai boy1918
Taung1925
Kanam1932
1896 E. Dubois in Sci. Trans. Royal Dublin Soc. 6 9 The human form of the Trinil femur is not sufficient to prove that it did not belong to the same individual as the skull-cap.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 466/1 Classing the Trinil skull as human, it may be described as tending towards the simian type.
1933 A. S. Romer Man & Vertebr. xi. 237 The teeth are essentially human in character but do not definitely settle the status of this Trinil man.
1975 G. H. R. von Koenigswald in R. H. Tuttle Paleoanthropology 305 It [sc. a skull] is not directly comparable to the Trinil skull cap.
2007 C. J. Cela-Conde & F. J. Ayala Human Evol. vii. 199/1 The first name given to the Trinil specimen was Anthropopithecus erectus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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