Скачать или смотреть Paranthropus robustus SK 23 reconstructed mandible

This fossil mandible belongs to the South African hominin species Paranthropus robustus. This mandible, which is between 1.8-1 million years, is one of the best preserved mandible fossils from the Swartkrans site, where many other Paranthropus robustus fossils have been uncovered. The mandible seems to belong to a subadult female, similar to the SK 48 skull of the same species found nearby, but they two specimens are not considered to belong to the same individual. The original fossil is quite narrower than it would be when the individual was alive, but this reconstruction fixes that to give a better picture of the mandibular anatomy of this species and so that it can articulate with the SK 48 skull.