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British paleontologist

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

In the 1950s she studied paleontology with Donald MacInnes at the Museum of Nairobi.

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

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.

References

  1. ^ Leakey, Richard E. (29 May 1998). "Obituary: Professor R. J. G. Savage". The Independent. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  2. Weedman, Kathryn (2001). "Who's "That Girl": British, South African, and American Women as Africanist Archaeologists in Colonial Africa (1860s–1960s)". African Archaeological Review. 18 (1): 16. doi:10.1023/A:1006793522666. S2CID 161967941.
  3. Virginia Morell (11 January 2011). Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings. Simon and Schuster. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-1-4391-4387-2.
  4. Richard E. Leakey; Bethwell A. Ogot (1980). "Shirley Coryndon Savage (1926–1977)". Proceedings of the 8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies: Nairobi, 5 to 10 September, 1977. International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute for African Prehistory. p. 8.
  5. Benton, Michael (1998). "Obituary: Robert J. G. Savage (1927–1998)". Nature in Avon: Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society. 58: 14–18.
  6. Geze, R. (1985). "Repartition paleoecologique et relations phylogenetiques des Hippopotamidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) du Neogene d'Afrique orientale". Environment des hominides au Plio-Pleistocene. Paris: Foundation Singer-Polignac. pp. 81–100.
  7. Pickford, Martin (1983). "On the origins of Hippopotamidae togetherwith descriptions of two new species, a new genus and a new subfamily from the Miocene of Kenya". Geobios. 16 (2): 193–217. Bibcode:1983Geobi..16..193P. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(83)80019-9.
  8. Gentry, A. W. (2006). "A new bovine (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the Hadar Formation, Ethiopia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 61 (2): 41–50. Bibcode:2006TRSSA..61...41G. doi:10.1080/00359190609519952. S2CID 85046738.
  • Sutcliffe, A. (January 1977). "Obituary, Shirley Savage (nee Coryndon)". Newsletter of the Association of the William Pengelly Cave Research Centre (28): 26.


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