Robert Broom

Robert Broom

Robert Broom (1866–1951), South African paleontologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 38 taxon names authored by Robert Broom

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 eponym of Robert Broom

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1905

• Broom, R. 1905. On the use of the term Anomodontia. Records of the Albany Museum 1: 266–269. BHL Reference page. 

1911

• Broom, R. 1911. On some new South African Permian reptiles. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1073–1082. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1911.tb01976.x BHL Reference page. 

1912

• Broom, R. 1912. On some new Fossil Reptiles from the Permian and Triassic Beds of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 859–876. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1912.tb07564.x BHL Reference page. 
• Broom, R. (1912). "Observations on some specimens of South African fossil reptiles preserved in the British Museum". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 2: 19–25. DOI: 10.1080/00359191009519357

1936

• Broom, R. 1936. A new fossil baboon from the Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 18: 393–396. Reference page. 

1938

• Broom, R. 1938. On a New Family of Carnivorous Therapsids from the Karroo Beds of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (Series B) 108(3): 527–533. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1938.tb08528.x Reference page. 

1940

• Broom, R. 1940. The South African Pleistocene cercopithecid apes. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20: 89–100. Reference page. 

1941

• Broom, R. 1941. On two Pleistocene golden moles. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20: 215–216. Reference page. 

1946

• Broom, R. & Jensen, J.S. 1946. A new fossil baboon from the caves at Potgietersrust. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20: 337–340. Reference page. 

1948

• Broom, R. 1948. Some South African Pliocene and Pleistocene mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 21(1): 1–38. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_457 Reference page. 

1949

• Broom, R. & Hughes, A.R. 1949. Notes on the fossil baboons of the Makapan Caves. South African Science 2(9): 194–196. Reference page. 
• Broom, R. & Robinson, J.T. 1949. A new type of Fossil Baboon, Gorgopithecus major. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 119(2): 379–386. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1949.tb00887.x Reference page. 

References

• Wyllie, A. 2003. A review of Robert Broom’s therapsid holotypes: have they survived the test of time? Palaeontologia africana 39: 1–19. hdl: 10539/15952 Reference page.