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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old Paranthropus boiseifrom Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
PLoS ONE, Volume 8, No. 12, Article e80347, Year 2013
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Recent excavations in Level 4 at BK (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) have yielded nine hominin teeth, a distal humerus fragment, a proximal radius with much of its shaft, a femur shaft, and a tibia shaft fragment (cataloged collectively as OH 80). Those elements identified more specifically than to simply Hominidae gen. et sp. indet are attributed to Paranthropus boisei. Before this study, incontrovertible P. boisei partial skeletons, for which postcranial remains occurred in association with taxonomically diagnostic craniodental remains, were unknown. Thus, OH 80 stands as the first unambiguous, dentally associated Paranthropus partial skeleton from East Africa. The morphology and size of its constituent parts suggest that the fossils derived from an extremely robust individual who, at 1.338±0.024 Ma (1 sigma), represents one of the most recent occurrences of Paranthropus before its extinction in East Africa. © 2013 Domínguez-Rodrigo et al.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel
Spain, Madrid
Museo de Los Orígenes
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Pickering, Travis Rayne
United States, Madison
University of Wisconsin-madison
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa, Pretoria
Transvaal Museum
Baquedano, Enrique
Spain, Madrid
Museo de Los Orígenes
Spain, Madrid
Museo Arqueológico Regional
Mabulla, Audax Z.P.
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
University of Dar es Salaam
Mark, Darren F.
United Kingdom, Swindon
Natural Environment Research Council
Musiba, Charles M.
United States, Denver
University of Colorado Denver
Bunn, Henry T.
United States, Madison
University of Wisconsin-madison
Uribelarrea del Val, David
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Smith, Victoria C.
United Kingdom, Oxford
Oxford Social Sciences Division
Díez-Martín, Fernando
Spain, Valladolid
Universidad de Valladolid
PéRez-Gonzâlez, Alfredo
Spain, Burgos
Centro Nacional de Investigación Sobre la Evolución Humana Cenieh
Sánchez-Yustos, Policarpo
Spain, Valladolid
Universidad de Valladolid
Santonja, Manuel
Spain, Burgos
Centro Nacional de Investigación Sobre la Evolución Humana Cenieh
Barboni, Doris
France, Marseille
Aix Marseille Université
Gidna, Agness Onna
Spain, Madrid
Museo de Los Orígenes
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
National Museum of Tanzania
Ashley, Gail Mowry
United States, New Brunswick
Rutgers University–new Brunswick
Yravedra Sainz de Los Terreros, José
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Heaton, Jason L.
South Africa, Pretoria
Transvaal Museum
United States, Birmingham
Birmingham Southern College
Arriaza, Mari Carmen
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Statistics
Citations: 143
Authors: 19
Affiliations: 16
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0080347
e-ISSN:
19326203
Study Locations
Multi-countries
Tanzania