Biography:Shirley Coryndon
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Short description: British paleontologist
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]
Books
- Leakey, L. S. B.; Savage, R. J. G.; Coryndon, S. C. (1973). Fossil Vertebrates of Africa. 3. New York & London: Academic Press.
- Savage, R. J. G.; Coryndon, S. C. (1976). Fossil Vertebrates of Africa. 4. New York & London: Academic Press.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leakey, Richard E. (29 May 1998). "Obituary: Professor R. J. G. Savage". The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-professor-r-j-g-savage-1156674.html.
- ↑ 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. https://www.academia.edu/6630879.
- ↑ 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=TKatWz1z3r8C&pg=PA229.
- ↑ 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=Tc0KAQAAIAAJ.
- ↑ Benton, Michael (1998). "Obituary: Robert J. G. Savage (1927–1998)". Nature in Avon: Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society 58: 14–18. https://archive.org/stream/natureinavon581998bris#page/14/mode/2up.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(83)80019-9.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1080/00359190609519952.
- 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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