{
  "reviewedOn": "2026-11-05",
  "scope": "Source-attributed ancestry proposals. Card positions and connector endpoints are schematic comparisons, not dates of descent.",
  "connections": [
    {
      "id": "dryopithecus-skunk-ape",
      "title": "Southern apes · Dryopithecus proposal",
      "shortTitle": [
        "Southern / skunk apes",
        "Dryopithecus proposal"
      ],
      "parentIds": [
        "dryopithecus-fontani"
      ],
      "mediaIds": [
        "jnl-bigfoot-woods"
      ],
      "proposalId": "dryopithecus",
      "route": "Dryopithecus-related branch → reported southern apes",
      "attribution": "Loren Coleman · 1997",
      "sourceDate": "1997 account of earlier proposals",
      "basis": "Coleman proposes Dryopithecus affinity for southern ape reports. D. fontani represents the named fossil genus here.",
      "openQuestion": "The source does not identify D. fontani as the direct parent. Coleman distinguishes these reports from classic Bigfoot.",
      "imageNote": "JNL’s generic illustration is a comparison image, not a witness portrait or an illustration from Coleman’s article.",
      "imageLabel": "Comparative illustration",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Loren Coleman · Scientific Names for Bigfoot",
          "url": "https://www.bfro.net/REF/scinafaq.htm"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ramapithecus-chart",
      "title": "Orangutan-like form · Ramapithecus route",
      "shortTitle": [
        "Orangutan-like form",
        "Ramapithecus route"
      ],
      "parentIds": [
        "sivapithecus-sivalensis"
      ],
      "mediaIds": [
        "bft411-chart-orangutan-ish"
      ],
      "proposalId": "schlosser-multiple-lineages",
      "route": "“Ramapithecus” → imagined Pongo adaptations → orangutan-like reported form",
      "attribution": "David Schlosser · 2017",
      "sourceDate": "2017 chart; historical fossil name",
      "basis": "Schlosser draws this conceptual route. Ramapithecus punjabicus is indexed under Sivapithecus sivalensis in the cited taxonomic revision.",
      "openQuestion": "The name cross-reference does not validate the chart’s descent or adaptation scenario.",
      "imageNote": "A panel from the user-supplied chart, sharing one interpretive source with its other pictured forms.",
      "imageLabel": "Thought-experiment panel",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "David Schlosser · Bigfoot Types",
          "url": "https://www.bigfoot411.com/bigfoot-types.html"
        },
        {
          "title": "Kay · Ramapithecus / Sivapithecus synonymy",
          "url": "https://scholars.duke.edu/publication/779797"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "giant-ape-bigfoot",
      "title": "Bigfoot · giant-ape proposal",
      "shortTitle": [
        "Bigfoot",
        "Giant-ape proposal"
      ],
      "parentIds": [
        "gigantopithecus"
      ],
      "mediaIds": [
        "lizard-king-hairy-biped"
      ],
      "proposalId": "gigantopithecus",
      "route": "Gigantopithecus or a related Asian ape → Bigfoot",
      "attribution": "Krantz · Reed · BFRO",
      "sourceDate": "1984 essays; BFRO page undated",
      "top": 1050,
      "basis": "The cited authors compare size and anatomy and propose an Asian ancestry. They differ over whether the ancestor was Gigantopithecus itself or a related branch.",
      "openQuestion": "Posture, migration and the particular ancestral population remain unresolved in these sources.",
      "imageNote": "The Bigfoot drawing is an illustration by Lizard King. It represents the subject of the proposal; it is not an image supplied by Krantz, Reed or BFRO.",
      "imageLabel": "Artist illustration",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "BFRO · The Bigfoot–Giganto Theory",
          "url": "https://www.bfro.net/REF/THEORIES/MJM/whatrtha.asp"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "boisei-patty",
      "title": "The film subject · robust-jaw comparison",
      "shortTitle": [
        "Patterson–Gimlin",
        "Robust-jaw comparison"
      ],
      "parentIds": [
        "paranthropus-boisei"
      ],
      "mediaIds": [
        "patterson-gimlin-frame-352"
      ],
      "comparisonMediaId": "meldrum-boisei-comparison",
      "proposalId": "paranthropus",
      "route": "Paranthropus boisei ⇢ Patterson–Gimlin film subject",
      "attribution": "Jeff Meldrum · 2024",
      "sourceDate": "Interview published January 29, 2024; film recorded October 20, 1967",
      "top": 1280,
      "basis": "Meldrum explicitly compares the Paranthropus boisei skull with the figure in the film, particularly robust chewing anatomy. His interview also considers Gigantopithecus.",
      "openQuestion": "He notes that Paranthropus was small and African; the proposal requires additional geographic spread and size change.",
      "imageNote": "The timeline uses frame 352 of the 1967 film. Below is the skull-and-film comparison reproduced in the interview. The comparison date and film date are separate.",
      "imageLabel": "Film frame · 1967",
      "accountId": "film-1967",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Jeff Meldrum · interview and comparison image",
          "url": "https://strangereality.blog/2024/01/29/interview-with-jeff-meldrum/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "schlosser-hybrid",
      "title": "Sasquatch & Almas · a proposed hybrid route",
      "shortTitle": [
        "Sasquatch / Almas",
        "Proposed hybrid route"
      ],
      "parentIds": [
        "paranthropus-robustus",
        "homo-erectus"
      ],
      "mediaIds": [
        "bft411-chart-sasquatch",
        "bft411-chart-almas"
      ],
      "proposalId": "schlosser-multiple-lineages",
      "route": "Paranthropus robustus + Homo erectus → “Homo-thropus” → Sasquatch / Almas",
      "attribution": "David Schlosser · 2017",
      "sourceDate": "2017 chart, version 1.1",
      "top": 1510,
      "basis": "This route follows the connecting lines in the chart supplied to this project. Both fossil forms feed the author’s imagined Homo-thropus category, which branches to his Sasquatch and Almas panels.",
      "openQuestion": "Homo-thropus is Schlosser’s invented intermediate. His chart is a thought experiment without dated hybridization, ancestry or survival evidence.",
      "imageNote": "Both portraits are panels from the same 2017 chart. They are two representations from one source, not independent encounters. The full chart contains additional routes.",
      "imageLabel": "Thought-experiment panels",
      "intermediate": "“Homo-thropus” · invented",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "David Schlosser · Bigfoot Types and ancestry chart",
          "url": "https://www.bigfoot411.com/bigfoot-types.html"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "schlosser-heidelbergensis",
      "title": "Almas · the Heidelbergensis route",
      "shortTitle": [
        "Almas",
        "Heidelbergensis route"
      ],
      "parentIds": [
        "homo-heidelbergensis"
      ],
      "mediaIds": [
        "bft411-chart-almas"
      ],
      "proposalId": "schlosser-multiple-lineages",
      "route": "Homo heidelbergensis → Almas (Schlosser’s chart)",
      "attribution": "David Schlosser · 2017",
      "sourceDate": "2017 chart, version 1.1",
      "top": 1780,
      "basis": "A separate dotted arrow in Schlosser’s chart connects his Homo heidelbergensis reconstruction to the Almas panel. This retains a second proposed route to the same pictured form.",
      "openQuestion": "This is the chart author’s conceptual connection. It does not identify the beings in a particular historical Almas account.",
      "imageNote": "The Almas portrait is reused from the same chart and source group as the hybrid-route card.",
      "imageLabel": "Thought-experiment panel",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "David Schlosser · Bigfoot Types and ancestry chart",
          "url": "https://www.bigfoot411.com/bigfoot-types.html"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "archaic-homo-eastern",
      "title": "Eastern reports · archaic-human proposal",
      "shortTitle": [
        "Eastern reported forms",
        "Archaic-human proposal"
      ],
      "parentIds": [
        "homo-heidelbergensis",
        "homo-neanderthalensis"
      ],
      "mediaIds": [
        "bft411-chart-archaic-human"
      ],
      "proposalId": "archaic-homo",
      "route": "Heidelbergensis-like / Neanderthal-like populations → Eastern reported forms",
      "attribution": "Dale Drinnon · 2012",
      "sourceDate": "March 25, 2012",
      "basis": "Drinnon proposes different archaic-human affinities for larger and smaller Eastern reported forms.",
      "openQuestion": "This is a source interpretation of descriptions and depictions, not a fossil identification. His account distinguishes Eastern forms from West Coast Sasquatch.",
      "imageNote": "Schlosser’s archaic-human panel supplies a separately credited comparative illustration; it is not Drinnon’s evidence.",
      "imageLabel": "Comparative chart panel",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Drinnon · Big Daddy Is Still Around",
          "url": "https://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/homo-sapiens-heidelbergensis-big-daddy.html"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "human-hybrid-claim",
      "title": "Human ancestry · proposed mixed origin",
      "shortTitle": [
        "Human + unknown primate",
        "Proposed mixed origin"
      ],
      "parentIds": [
        "homo-sapiens"
      ],
      "mediaIds": [
        "lizard-king-hairy-biped"
      ],
      "proposalId": "human-hybrid",
      "route": "Homo sapiens + unidentified primate → claimed novel hominin",
      "attribution": "Ketchum et al. · 2013",
      "sourceDate": "2013 release; paper copyright 2012",
      "basis": "The authors interpret submitted samples as evidence of mixed human and unidentified-primate ancestry.",
      "openQuestion": "The claimed nonhuman parent is unidentified. The source does not establish a named fossil ancestor or an independently verified Sasquatch genome.",
      "imageNote": "Lizard King’s illustration represents the subject only; the paper does not identify the illustrated individual.",
      "imageLabel": "Comparative illustration",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Ketchum et al. · original paper",
          "url": "https://wendystjohn.summerlark.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/novel-north-american-hominins-final-pdf-download.pdf"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}