In dictionaries:
genus paranthropus
Extinct robust hominins, large teeth.
Paranthropus boisei
a species of australopithecine from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago.
Paranthropus robustus
a species of robust australopithecine from the Early and possibly Middle Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, about 2.27 to 0.87 (or, more conservatively, 2 to 1) million years ago.
Paranthropus aethiopicus
an extinct species of robust australopithecine from the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.7–2.3 million years ago.
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