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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 ...
SK 48 is a fossilized skull of the species Paranthropus robustus.It was found at Swartkrans, South Africa, in 1950 by a quarry-worker [1].Estimated to be about 1.8 million years old, it is characterized by a robust appearance, bulging and continuous brow, broad flat face and a deep jaw with large chewing teeth/muscle attachments.
TM 1517 is a fossilized skull and lower mandible of the species Paranthropus robustus.It was discovered at Kromdraai, South Africa in 1938 by Robert Broom.. Its characteristics include bony ear tubes positioned below the plane of the cheek bones (more like humans than apes), and a forward set foramen magnum indicating a more erect posture than African apes.
This means at least two Paranthropus species – P robustus and P capensis – may have coexisted in the South African region 1.4 million years ago, likely inhabiting different ecological niches ...
DNH 7, the most complete P. robustus skull known until the description of DNH155 in 2020 [27] Oldowan toolkits were uncovered at an excavation site on the Homa Peninsula in western Kenya. Stone tools called "oldowan toolkits" are used to pound and shape other rocks or plant materials. These tools are thought to be between 2.6 and 3 million ...
Paranthropus robustus: 1948 Swartkrans, South Africa: Robert Broom: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History SK 46 [37] 2.25–1.80 Paranthropus robustus: 1949 Swartkrans, South Africa: Robert Broom: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History SK 847 [38] 2.25–1.80 Homo habilis: 1949 Swartkrans, South Africa: Ditsong National Museum of ...
The DNH 7 Paranthropus robustus skull from DMQ, the most complete skull of this species ever discovered and a rare female example.. The Drimolen Palaeocave System consists of a series of terminal [disputed – discuss] Pliocene to early Pleistocene hominin-bearing palaeocave fills [1] located around 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Johannesburg, South Africa, and about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi ...
The teeth formed part of a skull that would become the holotype of Paranthropus robustus. Broom began excavations at the site that would continue until approximately 1947 and would result in the discovery of numerous hominin remains.