RT Journal Article
T1 First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
A1 Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel
A1 Pickering, T.R.
A1 Baquedano, Enrique
A1 Mabulla, Audax
A1 Mark, Darren F.
A1 Musiba, C.
A1 Bunn, Henry T.
A1 Uribelarrea Del Val, David
A1 Smith, Victoria
A1 Diez-Martín, Fernando
A1 Pérez González, Alfredo José
A1 Sánchez Yustos, Policarpo
A1 Santonja, Manuel
A1 Barboni, Doris
A1 Gidna, Agness
A1 Ashley, G.M.
A1 Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, José
A1 Heaton, Jason L.
AB 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.
PB Public Library of Science
SN 1932-6203
YR 2013
FD 2013-12-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34530
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34530
LA eng
NO Received July 29, 2013; Accepted October 1, 2013; Published December 5, 2013.© 2013 Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 12 may 2025