First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

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...

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Autores: Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel, Pickering, T.R., Baquedano, Enrique, Mabulla, Audax, Mark, Darren F., Musiba, C., Bunn, Henry T., Uribelarrea Del Val, David, Smith, Victoria, Diez-Martín, Fernando, Pérez González, Alfredo José, Sánchez Yustos, Policarpo, Santonja, Manuel, Barboni, Doris, Gidna, Agness, Ashley, G.M., Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, José, Heaton, Jason L.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/34530
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34530
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:569.89
Animals
Fossils
Hominidae
Organ Specificity
Paleontology
Skeleton
Tanzania
Paleontología
2416 Paleontología
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Sumario: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 1.33860.024 Ma (1 sigma), represents one of the most recent occurrences of Paranthropus before its extinction in East Africa.

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