New Australopithecines from East Rudolf, Kenya. II.

Abstract

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