New Australopithecines from East Rudolf, Kenya. II.
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1972Author
Leakey, RE
Mungai, JM
Walker, AC
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Eleven new specimens of fossil hominids from the Plio-Pleistocene sediments of Lake Rudolf, Kenya, are described. They include the following: two left mandibular bodies; parts of two right mandibular bodies; a massive mandible with partially preserved dentition and an almost complete right ascending ramus; a partial cranium with most of the right and parts of the left facial skeleton, the frontoparietal part of the calvaria, the right temporal bone, and some smaller fragments; the shaft of a massive left femur and parts of another left femur; fragments of a left humerus; and an almost complete right humerus. Detailed comparative descriptions will be published in due course
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http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/29125http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.1330360212/abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5015201
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Am J Phys Anthropol. 1972 Mar;36(2):235-51Publisher
Department of Anatomy, University Of Nairobi
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