Paranthropus boisei
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| Paranthropus boisei Temporal range: Pliocene-Pleistocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | Paranthropus |
| Species: | P. boisei |
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| †Paranthropus boisei (Mary Leakey, 1959) |
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Paranthropus boisei (originally called Zinjanthropus boisei and then Australopithecus boisei until recently) was an early hominin and described as the largest of the Paranthropus species. It lived from about 2.6 until about 1.2 million years ago during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in Eastern Africa. It was 4' 6" tall for a male and 4' 1" for a female.[source?]
