Taxonomic revision of the SK 15 mandible based on bone and tooth structural organization

2025/01/02 by Clément Zanolli, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Ottmar Kullmer +4 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103634

openalex publication_date 2025/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

, short molar roots) typically found in specimens of Paranthropus aethiopicus, Paranthropus boisei, and Paranthropus robustus. In particular, SK 15 differs markedly in size and morphology from mandibular remains of P. robustus from Swartkrans Member 2. We thus tentatively attribute SK 15 to Paranthropus capensis, a more gracile species of Paranthropus than the other three currently recognized species of this genus and discuss the implications for the existence of another species of Paranthropus in southern Africa during the Early Pleistocene.

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