First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old Paranthropus boiseifrom Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel ^a,b   Pickering, Travis Rayne ^c,d,e   Baquedano, Enrique ^a,f   Mabulla, Audax ^g   Mark, Darren F ^h   Musiba, Charles ⁱ   Bunn, Henry T ^c   Uribelarrea, David ^b   Smith, Victoria ^j   Diez Martin, Fernando ^k   Pérez González, Alfredo ^l   Sánchez, Policarpo ^k   Santonja, Manuel ^l   Barboni, Doris ^m   Gidna, Agness ^a,n   Ashley, Gail ^o   Yravedra, José ^b   Heaton, Jason L ^e,p   Arriaza, Maria Carmen ^b  

^a Museo de los Origenes   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e Transvaal Museum   (South Africa)

^f Museo Arqueológico Regional de Madrid   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^h NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^l CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^m AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

ⁿ National Museum of Tanzania   (Tanzania)

^o RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CANINE TOOTH; DIAPHYSIS; FEMALE; FOSSIL HOMININ; HOMINID; HUMERUS; LESSER TROCHANTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARANTHROPUS BOISEI; RADIUS; SKELETON; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TANZANIA; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; ULNA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PALEONTOLOGY; SKELETON; TANZANIA;

EID: 84891917532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080347     Document Type: Article

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