characterised by the continual prolonging of dry cycles and subsequent retreat of such habitat.

Taxonomy

Research history

Discovery

The first remains, a partial skull including a part of the jawbone (TM 1517), were discovered in June 1938 at the Kromdraai cave site, South Africa, by local schoolboy Gert Terblanche. He gave the remains to South African conservationist Charles Sydney Barlow, who then relayed them to South African palaeontologist

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