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Accession Number AFC974.17.17 Scientific Name Paranthropus robustus Category cranium Side left Portion fragmented temporal bone and maxilla Type Status holotype Alternate Taxon Homo transvaalensis; Australopithecus robustus Cast Source Faculty of Dentistry, University of Alberta Fossil Owner Transvaal Museum of Natural History Fossil Collector Terblanche, G. Date Collected 1938 Place Collected Africa: South Africa Site Kromdraai Age adult Description Plaster cast of a cranium, left fragmented temporal bone and maxilla Materials plaster Geologic Age Early Middle Pleistocene Sex male Stratigraphy Phase II Breccia, Site B