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Accession Number AFC2015.2.10 Scientific Name Australopithecus africanus Category cranium Subcategory fragments of occipital and parietals Portion fragment Type Status holotype Alternate Taxon Australopithecus africanus transvaalensis; Australopithecus prometheus Cast Source Faculty of Dentistry, University of Alberta Fossil Owner MSUW Fossil Collector Kitching, J. Date Collected 1947 Place Collected Africa: South Africa, Transvaal Site Makapansgat Age adult Description Plaster cast of a cranium, fragments of occipital and parietals fragment Materials plaster Geologic Age Plio-Pleistocene Sex female Stratigraphy Lower Phase I Breccia