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Paranthropus robustus male skull SK-48
Male skull of Paranthropus robustus (photo: Transvaal Museum).
Fossils of Paranthropus ("near man"), a robust form of australopithecine, were first discovered by Robert Broom in 1938 at Sterkfontein cave in South Africa. Ten years later, in 1948, more substantial findings of Paranthropus including several skulls and jaw fragments were made by Broom and John Robinson at Swartkraans cave, the most complete of which was a male skull (SK-48), now at the Transvaal Museum in Praetoria. The species was originally called Paranthropus crassidens by Broom, but is now called Paranthropus robustus, or Australopithecus robustus.
References:
Broom, R. 1939. The dentition of the Transvaal Pleistocene anthropoids, Plesianthropus and Paranthropus. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 19 (3): 303–314.
Broom, R. 1948. Another new type of fossil ape-man. Nature. 162 (4132): 57.
Broom, R. and J.T. Robinson. 1952 Swartkrans Ape-Man, Paranthropus crassidens. Memoir 6, Transvaal Museum, Praetoria.
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