First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
2013
Dominguez-Rodrigo, Manuel | Pickering, Travis Rayne | Baquedano, Enrique | Mabulla, Audax | Mark, Darren F. | Musiba, Charles | Bunn, Henry T. | Uribelarrea, David | Smith, Victoria, C. | Diez-Martin, Fernando | Perez-Gonzalez, Alfredo | Sanchez, Policarpo | Santonja, Manuel | Barboni, Doris | Gidna, Agness | Ashley, Gail | Yravedra, Jose | Heaton, Jason L. | Carmen Arriaza, Maria | Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] (UCM) | Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art [Oxford] ; School of Archaeology [Oxford] ; University of Oxford-University of Oxford | Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Piscataway] ; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey [New Brunswick] (RU) ; Rutgers University System (Rutgers)-Rutgers University System (Rutgers)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. 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.
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