Shirley Coryndon
British paleontologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]