Paranthropus robustus facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Paranthropus robustus Temporal range: Pliocene-Pleistocene
Original Skull of Paranthropus robustus at the Transvaal Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Hominidae
Subfamily:	Homininae
Genus:	Paranthropus
Species:	P. robustus
Binomial name
†Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938

Paranthropus robustus was originally discovered in Southern Africa in 1938. The development of P. robustus, namely in cranial features, seemed to be aimed in the direction of a "heavy-chewing complex". Because of the definitive traits that are associated with this robust line of australopithecine, anthropologist Robert Broom erected the genus Paranthropus and placed this species into it.

Images for kids

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  Cast of the face of TM 1517, the holotype specimen of P. robustus

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  OH 5 (reconstructed skull above) was made the holotype specimen of the 2nd Paranthropus species P. boisei.

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  Reconstruction of a female P. robustus

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  Illustration of the pelvis of DNH 43 (front view)

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  Cast of SK 46 skull

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  P. robustus could have lived in multi-male groups like Hamadryas baboons (above troop at Dierenpark Emmen).

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  SKX 11 tooth

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  The left upper 1st molar of SK 57 with tertiary dentin (white arrow)

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  Ronald J. Clarke suggested StW 505 (above) is ancestral to P. robustus

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  GDA-2 from Gondolin Cave

See also

In Spanish: Paranthropus robustus para niños