Was Sahelanthropus Tchandensis truely bipedal?

Question

Have we anyway of conntecting it to the australopithicus or paranthorpus line?

Answer 1

Whatever he was, he was not human.

Answer 2

I think that a portion of the femur showed that it almost certainly was in my opinion.  It is probable that it evolved into the australopithecus and paranthropus line.  It is quite possible that it is an australopithecus.  Sometimes nomenclature has more to do the aspirations of the fossil finder.  Sahelanthropus means man from Sahel.  Names are very important in how a fossil is considered.  Leaky knew this when naming Homo habilis.  He cleverly changed the definition of the genus Homo rather than catagorize his fossil as a less important fossil outside our genus.  By calling it "anthropus" rather than "pithecus" (ape), it implies that it belongs on our line.  That is obviously not true of paranthropus however.   L. Leaky also originally named Paranthropus boisei as Zinjanthropus.