Wust (1950) in discussing the history of the Mauer mandible and related finds suggests the name Europanthropus heidelbergensis. Roughly translated from the orignal German, he states on p. 8 "On the other hand, there are several names for the same fossil specimen, from which the tribal-historical connection with the anthropus stage is supposed to be recognizable. So one speaks of 'Palaeoanthropus heidelbergensis' a designation which H. Weinert characterized variously as tautological and for his part - also based on the old age of the lower jaw and based on the other anthropus finds - the name 'Europanthrous heidelbergensis' is here proposed."
Campbell (1965) lists the genus as an objective junrior synonym of Homo heidelbergensis, and hence available but objectively invalid.
