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Zinjanthropus boisei Leakey, 1959
Details
Year: 1959
Taxonomic Rank: Species
Holotype: OH 5
Status: Potentially valid
Remark:  
Remarks

Leakey 1959 established Zinjanthropus boisei based on the holotype OH 5. The species name 'boisei' is widely used and accepted but most place the species in the genus Paranthropus (e.g. Suwa et al. 1997; Wood and Constantino, 2007; Maclatchey et al. 2010) or Australopithecus (e.g. Lockey et al. 2020).

 

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Additional References
L. S. B. Leakey
A New Fossil Skull From Olduvai
Nature, 184, 491, 1959
https://doi.org/10.1038/184491a0
G. Suwa, B. Asfaw, Y. Beyene, T. D. White, S. Katoh, S. Nagaoka, H. Nakaya\&num, K. Uzawa, et al.
The first skull of Australopithecus boisei
Nature, 389(6650), 489-492, 1997
https://doi.org/10.1038/39037
B. Wood and P. Constantino
Paranthropus boisei: fifty years of evidence and analysis
Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 45, 106-132, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20732
L. M. Maclatchy , J. Desilva , W. J. Sanders , and B. Wood
Hominini
Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, University of California Press, 2010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520257214.003.0025
A. L. Lockey , Z. Alemseged , J.-J. Hublin , and M. M. Skinner
Maxillary molar enamel thickness of Plio-Pleistocene hominins
J. Hum. Evol., 142, 102731, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102731