Shirley Coryndon

Shirley Cameron Coryndon (1926–1976) was a British paleontologist and authority on fossil hippopotami.^[1]

In the 1950s she studied paleontology with Donald MacInnes at the Museum of Nairobi.^[2]

Coryndon was the paleontological assistant to Louis Leakey at the Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology.^[3] She also participated in excavations at Olduvai Gorge. She was previously married to Roger Coryndon, son of colonial administrator Robert Coryndon,^[4] and in 1969 she married British paleontologist R. J. G. Savage, whom she had met in Kenya in 1955.^[1][5] She is commemorated in the names of the fossil hippopotami Hexaprotodon coryndonae^[6] and Kenyapotamus coryndonae,^[7] as well as the fossil bovine Ugandax coryndonae.^[8]

Books

• Leakey, L. S. B.; Savage, R. J. G.; Coryndon, S. C. (1973). Fossil Vertebrates of Africa. Vol. 3. New York & London: Academic Press.
• Savage, R. J. G.; Coryndon, S. C. (1976). Fossil Vertebrates of Africa. Vol. 4. New York & London: Academic Press.