| 词条 | Shirley Coryndon |
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In the 1950s she studied paleontology with Donald MacInnes at the Museum of Nairobi.[1] Coryndon was the palentological assistant to Louis Leakey at the Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology.[2] She also participated in excavations at Olduvai Gorge. She was previously married to Roger Coryndon, son of colonial administrator Robert Coryndon,[3] and in 1969 she married British paleontologist R. J. G. Savage, whom she had met in Kenya in 1955.[4][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
References1. ^{{cite journal|last1=Weedman|first1=Kathryn|title=Who’s "That Girl": British, South African, and American Women as Africanist Archaeologists in Colonial Africa (1860s–1960s)|journal=African Archaeological Review|date=2001|volume=18|issue=1|page=16|url=https://www.academia.edu/6630879/Whos_That_Girl_British_South_African_and_American_Women_as_Africanist_Archaeologists_in_Colonial_Africa_1860s_1960s}} 2. ^{{cite book|author=Virginia Morell|title=Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TKatWz1z3r8C&pg=PA229|date=11 January 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-4387-2|pages=229–}} 3. ^{{cite book|author1=Richard E. Leakey|author2=Bethwell A. Ogot|chapter=Shirley Coryndon Savage (1926–1977)|title=Proceedings of the 8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies: Nairobi, 5 to 10 September, 1977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tc0KAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute for African Prehistory|page=8}} 4. ^1 {{Cite web|last=Leakey|first=Richard E.|authorlink=Richard Leakey|title = Obituary: Professor R. J. G. Savage|work=The Independent|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-professor-r-j-g-savage-1156674.html|date=29 May 1998|accessdate = 2015-08-14}} 5. ^{{cite journal|first=Michael|last=Benton|year=1998|title=Obituary: Robert J. G. Savage (1927–1998)|journal=Nature in Avon: Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society|volume=58|pages=14–18|url=https://archive.org/stream/natureinavon581998bris#page/14/mode/2up}} 6. ^{{cite book|first=R. |last=Geze|year= 1985|chapter= Repartition paleoecologique et relations phylogenetiques des Hippopotamidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) du Neogene d'Afrique orientale|title= Environment des hominides au Plio-Pleistocene|pages= 81–100|publisher=Foundation Singer-Polignac|location=Paris}} 7. ^{{cite journal|last1=Pickford|first1=Martin|title=On the origins of Hippopotamidae togetherwith descriptions of two new species, a new genus and a new subfamily from the Miocene of Kenya|journal=Geobios|date=1983|volume=16|issue=2|pages=193–217|doi=10.1016/S0016-6995(83)80019-9}} 8. ^{{cite journal|last1=Gentry|first1=A. W.|title=A new bovine (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the Hadar Formation, Ethiopia|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa|date=2006|volume=61|issue=2|pages=41–50|doi=10.1080/00359190609519952}}
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