Montandon (1943) established a new genus, Maueranthropus heidelbergensis (Schoetensack, 1908) Mantondon, 1943. Campbell (1965) listed the taxon as an available objective junior synonym to the genus Palaeanthropus heidelbergensis (Schoetensack, 1908) Bonarelli, 1909 as both share heidelbergensis as the type species.
