Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 (“ Little Foot ”) Author Beaudet, Amélie Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes et Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, 6 Rue Michel Brunet, F- 86000 Poitiers (France) and Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam St, Cambridge CB 2 1 QH (United Kingdom) and School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 (South Africa) amelie. beaudet @ univ-poitiers. fr (corresponding author) amelie.beaudet@univ-poitiers.fr Author Dupont, Emeline Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes et Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, 6 Rue Michel Brunet, F- 86000 Poitiers (France Author Guy, Franck Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes et Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, 6 Rue Michel Brunet, F- 86000 Poitiers (France) Author Dumoncel, Jean Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l’Apprentissage, CNRS, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours, 5, rue T. Lefebvre, TSA 21103, F- 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9 (France) Author Atwood, Robert Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX 11 0 DE (United Kingdom) Author Fernandez, Vincent Imaging and Analysis Centre, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW 7 5 BD (United Kingdom) and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 rue des Martyrs, F- 38000 Grenoble (France) Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX 11 0 DE (United Kingdom) and National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 (United States) Author Clarke, Ronald Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 (South Africa) Author Heaton, Jason L. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 (South Africa) and Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 464 Campbell Hall Birmingham, AL 35294 - 1170 (United States) text Comptes Rendus Palevol 2026 2026-03-02 25 3 43 56 https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a3 journal article 10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a3 1777-571X 18835121 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B682CEB3-35B4-4427-8605-AE168C581BB3

TABLE 1. — Set of 34 landmarks positioned on the external surfaces of the faces of StW 573 and comparative samples (see Appendix 1). Fourteen of the landmarks were acquired bilaterally. Abbreviations: L, left; R, right.

Landmarks	Abbreviations	Number
Alare (R/L)	al	1
Alveolare I1/I2 (R/L)	aI1/I2	2
Alveolare C/P3 (R/L)	aC/P3	3
Alveolare P4/M1 (R/L)	aP4/M1	4
Alveolare M2/M3 (R/L)	aM2/M3	5
Frontomalare orbitale (R/L)	fmo	6
Frontomalare temporale (R/L)	fmt	7
Greater palatine foramen (R)	gpf	8
Incisive canal	inc	9
Infraorbital foramen (R/L)	inf	10
Lacrymale foramen (R/L)	lf	11
Nasospinale	NS	12
Orbitale (R/L)	or	13
Prosthion	pr	14
Rhinion	rhi	15
Staphylion	sta	16
Superior margin of the orbit (R/L)	smo	17
Lacrymale (R/L)	l	18
Zygoorbitale (R/L)	zyo	19
Zygomaxillare (R/L)	zm	20