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

Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Travis Rayne Pickering, Enrique Baquedano, Audax Z. P. Mabulla, Darren F. Mark, Charles M. Musiba, Henry T. Bunn, David Uribelarrea, Vicki Smith, Fernando Diéz Martín, Alfredo Pérez‐González, Policarpo Sánchez, Manuel Santonja, Doris Barboni, Agness Gidna, Gail M. Ashley, José Yravedra, Jason L. Heaton, Mari Carmen Arriaza

PLoS ONE· 2013-12-05· article· 181 citationsgold

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Abstract

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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Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Travis Rayne Pickering, Enrique Baquedano, Audax Z. P. Mabulla, Darren F. Mark, Charles M. Musiba, … Mari Carmen Arriaza (2013). First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080347

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  title  = {First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania},
  author = {Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Manuel and Pickering, Travis Rayne and Baquedano, Enrique and Mabulla, Audax Z. P. and Mark, Darren F. and Musiba, Charles M. and Bunn, Henry T. and Uribelarrea, David and Smith, Vicki and Martín, Fernando Diéz and Pérez‐González, Alfredo and Sánchez, Policarpo and Santonja, Manuel and Barboni, Doris and Gidna, Agness and Ashley, Gail M. and Yravedra, José and Heaton, Jason L. and Arriaza, Mari Carmen},
  year   = {2013},
  journal = {PLoS ONE},
  doi    = {10.1371/journal.pone.0080347}
}