THE PARAPAPIO SPECIES OF STERKFONTEIN, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA
Date
1972
Authors
Freedman, L.
Stenhouse, N. S.
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Publisher
BERNARD PRICE INSTITUTE FOR PALAEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Abstract
The premolar and molar dimensions of the Parapapio specimens hitherto described
from the South African lower Pleistocene deposits at Sterkfontein have been
re-examined. The relatively minor sexual dimorphism in these teeth (except P3 length)
was confirmed. 103 new cercopithecoid specimens from Sterkfontein were tentatively
assigned to the 3 previously described Parapapio spp. from that site. The new and old
samples of each species were compared and then pooled. Analysis of this new enlarged
sample, and also the newly available distribution data of Parapapio from other South
African deposits, both tend to support the validity of 3 Parapapio spp., P. jonesi, P.
broomi and P. whitei, at Sterkfontein.