Robert Broom, Scottish-born South-African paleontologist (Paisley, Scotland 30 November 1866 – Pretoria 06 April 1951)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Discovered Australopithecus robustus (1938)

First to find septo-maxilla in the skull of tetrapods (1897)

Showed that in a foetal marsupial the cartilaginous coracoids process of the shoulder girdle reaches and articulates with the sternum (1897)

Gave first essentially complete account of the skeleton of any mammal-like reptile (1901)

Described new families and orders in Fossil Reptilia

DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA

Reptilia 

About 220

Mammalia

Burramys 1895

Dinopithecus 1937 

Elephantomys 1937

Gorgopithecus 1949 with Robinson

Gypsorhynchus 1930

Karoomys 1903

Mylomygale 1946 with Schepers

Notochoerus 1925

Palaeopetaurus 1896

Palaeopetromys 1946

Palaeotomys 1937

Palaeotragiscus 1930

Proamblysomus 1941

Prohyrax 1930

Prototomys 1948

Telanthropus 1949 with Robinson

Tetracynodon 1948 with Robinson

Amphibia

Batrachosaurus 1903

Lydekkerina 1915

Putterilla 1930

Rhinesuchus 1908

Rhinesuchoides 1937 with Olson

Pisces

Caruichthys 1913

Disichthys 1913

Helichthys 1909

Hydropessum 1909

Peleichthys 1913

Crustacea

Notocaris 1913

Species

About 560 of Fossil Vertebrata (being 369 therapsid and 12 fishes) 

HONORS

Wollaston Medal (1949)

Broometta Chabakov 1928 (Fossil Pisces)

Broomia Watson 1914 (Fossil Reptilia)

Broomicephalus Brink & Kitching 1953 (Fossil Reptilia)

Broomisaurus Joseaud 1920 (Fossil Reptilia)

Broomistega Shishkin & Rubidge (Fossil Amphibia)

Broomium Koch (Coleoptera)

Broomulus Romer 1947 (Fossil Amphibia)

Robertia Boonstra 1948 (Fossil Reptilia)