A New Horned Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Christopher A. Brochu; Jackson Njau; Robert J. Blumenschine; Llewellyn D. Densmore

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009333

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A New Horned Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Christopher A. Brochu ,

* E-mail: chris-brochu@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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Jackson Njau,

Affiliations Human Evolution Research Center, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania
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Robert J. Blumenschine,

Affiliation Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Llewellyn D. Densmore

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
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A New Horned Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Christopher A. Brochu,
Jackson Njau,
Robert J. Blumenschine,
Llewellyn D. Densmore

Published: February 24, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009333

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