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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel
• Pickering, Travis Rayne
• Baquedano, Enrique
• Mabulla, Audax
• Mark, Darren F
• Musiba, Charles
• Bunn, Henry T
• Uribelarrea, David
• Smith, Victoria
• Diez-Martin, Fernando
• Pérez-González, Alfredo
• Sánchez, Policarpo
• Santonja, Manuel
• Barboni, Doris
• Gidna, Agness
• Ashley, Gail
• Yravedra, José
• Heaton, Jason L
• Arriaza, Maria Carmen
• Curnoe, Darren

Titel

First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2013-12, Vol.8 (12), p.e80347-e80347

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.