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Paranthropus is a genus of extinct hominin which contains two widely accepted species: P. robustus and P. boisei. However, the validity of Paranthropus is contested, and it is sometimes considered to be synonymous with Australopithecus. They are also referred to as the robust australopithecines.
It was long assumed that if Paranthropus is a valid genus then P. robustus was the ancestor of P. boisei, but in 1985, anthropologists Alan Walker and Richard Leakey found that the 2.5-million-year-old East African skull KNM WT 17000—which they assigned to a new species A. aethiopicus|A. aethiopicus—was ancestral to A. boisei (they ...
Paranthropus boisei is a species of australopithecine from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago. [1] The holotype specimen , OH 5 , was discovered by palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and described by her husband Louis a month later.
Paranthropus aethiopicus is an extinct species of robust australopithecine from the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.7–2.3 million years ago. However, it is much debated whether or not Paranthropus is an invalid grouping and is synonymous with Australopithecus, so the species is also often classified as Australopithecus aethiopicus. [1]
Paranthropus robustus: 1994 Drimolen, Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa: R. Smith and André Keyser: University of the Witwatersrand: KNM-ER 64060 2.03 Homo habilis: 2012 Ileret, Kenya: KNM-ER 64061 2.02 Homo erectus: 2012-2013 Ileret, Kenya: TM 1517 [32] 2.0 Paranthropus robustus: 1938 South Africa: Gert Terblanche Ditsong National Museum of ...
KNM ER 406 is an almost complete fossilized skull of the species Paranthropus boisei. [1] It was discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya by Richard Leakey and H. Mutua in 1969. [2] This species is grouped with the Australopitecine genus, Paranthropus boisei because of the robusticity of the skull and the prominent characteristics.
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SK 48 is a fossilised skull of the species Paranthropus robustus.It was found at Swartkrans, South Africa, in 1948 by palaeontologist Robert Broom.Estimated to be about 1.8 million years old, it is characterised by a robust appearance, bulging and continuous brow, broad flat face and a deep jaw with large chewing teeth/muscle attachments.