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Shirley Coryndon

British paleontologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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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.

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