Paranthropus robustus

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.

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 Media

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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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  Paranthropus robustus specimen SK 46 discovered at Swartkrans by local quarrymen and Robert Broom in 1949. Picture taken at Vienna Natural History Museum

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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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  Tooth of Paranthropus robustus SKX 11 from Swartkrans (26°00'S 27°45'E), Gauteng, South Africa to 1.8 million years. Collection of the Transvaal Museum, Northern Flagship Institute, Pretoria South-Africa - Different views of same specimen - (21.53x15.20x15.49 mm)

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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