• Kromdraai (Afrikaans for "crooked turn") is a fossil-bearing breccia-filled cave located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the well-known South African...
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  • between Kromdraai and Sterkfontein. In 1948, the Camp-Peabody Expedition from the United States worked at Bolts Farm and Gladysvale looking for fossil hominids...
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    Agapornis longipes (category Fossil taxa described in 2024)
    The fossilized remains of this bird were first discovered in the Kromdraai fossil site and reported in 1969 by T.N. Pocock, though the species would not...
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  • fossils and dolomite caverns. A well known fossil site is also named Kromdraai and it, along with such sites as Sterkfontein, Coopers, Swartkrans and Plovers...
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    This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single...
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  • Gladysvale Gondolin, Broederstroom Kaditshwene Cultural landscape Kromdraai fossil site Madiba House (inside Drakenstein Correctional Centre) Makapans Valley...
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  • Gladysvale Cave Hoedjiespunt Kathu Archaeological Sites Klasies River Caves Kromdraai fossil site Makapansgat Mapungubwe Motsetsi Plovers Lake Sterkfontein...
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  • 1517, first remains of Paranthropus robustus, from Kromdraai fossil site in South Africa. Maya site of Caracol is rediscovered. Luther Cressman, the first...
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    of Parliament Kaditshwene Cultural landscape Klasies River Caves Kromdraai fossil site Lake Fundudzi Lilian Ngoyi Grave Liliesleaf Farm Madiba House (inside...
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  • Kromdraai is a town in Sekhukhune District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Kromdraai Conservancy Kromdraai fossil site "Main Place...
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    Paranthropus (category Fossil taxa described in 1938)
    braincase, TM 1517, was discovered by schoolboy Gert Terblanche at the Kromdraai fossil site, about 70 km (43 mi) southwest of Pretoria, South Africa. By 1988...
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  • Proteles amplidentus (category Fossil taxa described in 1991)
    years ago. Proteles amplidentus has additionally been found in the Kromdraai fossil site. Proteles amplidentus was similar to the modern aardwolf in most...
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    Eastern Cape Grahamstown Klasies River Caves Eastern Cape Humansdorp Kromdraai Fossil Site Gauteng Sterkfontein Makapansgat Makapan's Cave Limpopo Mokopane...
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  • Propoecilogale (category Fossil taxa described in 1987)
    of P. bolti was reported in 2017 to have been discovered in the Kromdraai fossil site of South Africa, and was given the specimen number KW 7359. In 1997...
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  • reduced. Fossils have been found at the Kromdraai site and have been dated to around 2 million years ago. Avery, D. Margaret (2019). A Fossil History of...
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  • Geronticus thackerayi (category Fossil taxa described in 2019)
    Pliocene-Pleistocene transition. Geronticus thackerayi is known from fossils discovered in the Kromdraai fossil site of Gauteng, South Africa. Pavia, Marco (4 May 2019)...
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  • found in the Kromdraai and included a complete skull and mandible. More material has been found at other places, such as the Malapa Fossil Site, all in South...
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  • Howieson's Poort Shelter Die Kelders Klasies River Caves Kromdraai Fossil Site Makapansgat Malapa Fossil Site, Cradle of Humankind Mapoch's Caves Melkhoutboom...
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  • transition, inferred from the analysis of fossil birds from Member 2 of the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa)". Quaternary Science...
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  • transition, inferred from the analysis of fossil birds from Member 2 of the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa)". Quaternary Science...
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  • Gorgopithecus (category Fossil taxa described in 1948)
    been found at sites from the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Epoch in South Africa and Tanzania. It was first discovered at the Kromdraai A (also called...
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  • sp. (Mammalia: Carnivora), a new viverrid from the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 17 (6): 366–377...
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  • Glaucidium ireneae (category Fossil taxa described in 2020)
    at the Kromdraai fossil site in Gauteng, South Africa, in which he reviewed over 800 specimens representing 25 different species from the site. Among...
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    transition, inferred from the analysis of fossil birds from Member 2 of the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa)". Quaternary Science...
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    Plovers Lake (category Archaeological sites in South Africa)
    Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 36 km northwest of Johannesburg. Plovers Lake has been declared a South African National Heritage Site. Plovers Lake...
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  • of this species have been found at multiple sites in the country, including the Swartkrans and Kromdraai. In comparison to the extant rock hyrax, P. transvaalensis...
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  • Motsetsi (category Archaeological sites in South Africa)
    the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) north-northwest of Johannesburg, South...
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    Sterkfontein (category Archaeological sites in South Africa)
    The archaeological sites of Swartkrans and Kromdraai are in the same area. Sterkfontein is a South African National Heritage Site and was also declared...
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    030,000 BP) Sterkfontein (2,800,000 BP) Drimolen (2,000,000 BP) Kromdraai fossil site (2,000,000 BP) Cooper's Cave (1,900,000 BP) Canteen Kopje (1,890...
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    Municipality, and is part of the Mogale City Local Municipality. Located in the Kromdraai Valley and on the Crocodile River, Muldersdrift forms part of the Crocodile...
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