Paranthropus Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Skull of Paranthropus boisei | |
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Genus: | Paranthropus Broom, 1938
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†Paranthropus aethiopicus |
Paranthropus is an extinct genus of robust australopithecines. They probably descended from the genus Australopithecus.