New Craniodental Fossils of paranthropus from the Swartkrans Formation and Their Significance in “Robust” Australopithecine Evolution

Frederick E. Grine

doi:10.4324/9780203792667

New Craniodental Fossils of paranthropus from the Swartkrans Formation and Their Significance in “Robust” Australopithecine Evolution

Frederick E. Grine

Anthropology

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

The site of Swartkrans has long been recognized as the richest single depository of early hominid fossils in southern Africa. Work by R. Broom and J. T. Robinson between 1948 and 1953 and by C. K. Brain between 1965 and 1979 has resulted in the recovery of well over 200 craniodental fossils of Paranthropus from the Member 1 “Hanging Remnant�? breccia. Mann (1975) has estimated that at least 113 individuals are represented by this sample, while more recent estimates by Brain (1981) place this number between 85 and 87.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evolutionary History of the "Robust" Australopithecines
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	223-243
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351521260
ISBN (Print)	9780202361376
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203792667
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

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