and branch are all original specimen material from which this cast was made
The authors of the paper describing Ida classified her as a member of the primate family Notharctidae and the superfamily Cercamoniidae
which were fused to the last few tail vertebrae
in the Leicester City Museum
and a foramen magnum (the hole under the skull from which the spinal cord emerges) positioned forwardly under the skull
Australopithecus boisei aka, Paranthropus, aka, Zinjanthropus Styracosaurus and branch are all original2. 4 1. 4 Million Years Ago Australopithecus boisei aka, Paranthropus, aka, Zinjanthropus was an early hominin, described as the largest of the Paranthropus genus (robust australopithecines). It lived in Eastern Africa during the Pleistocene epoch from about 2. 4 until about 1. 4 million years ago. First discovered by anthropologist Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, the well preserved cranium (nicknamed "Nutcracker Man") was