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Martin Pickford
Martin Pickford, 2011 at Naturmuseum Senckenberg (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), identifying fossil teeth of Suidae from Indonesia, excavated from the stratum of Homo erectus from Sangiran
Born
1943 (age 80–81)
Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Citizenship
Kenyan
Alma mater
Dalhousie University (Bachelor's), University of London (PhD)
Known for
discovery of Orrorin tugenensis (2001)
Scientific career
Institutions
Uganda Paleontology Expedition, Collège de France, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, National Museums of Kenya, University of Mainz
Thesis
Stratigraphy and Palaeoecology of Five Late Cainozoic Formations in the Kenya Rift Valley (1974)
Martin Pickford (born 1943) is a lecturer in the Chair of Paleoanthropology and Prehistory at the Collège de France[1] and honorary affiliate at the Département Histoire de la Terre in the Muséum national d'Histoire.[2] In 2001, Martin Pickford together with Brigitte Senut and their team discovered Orrorin tugenensis, a hominid primate species dated between 5.8 and 6.2 million years ago and a potential ancestor of the genus Australopithecus.[3]
^"First hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino Formation, Kenya)". Senut, B., Pickford, M., Gommery, D., Mein, P., Cheboi, K., & Coppens, Y. (January 20, 2001). Comptes Rendus Académie des Sciences Paris, Série IIA Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes, 332, 137–144. Archived 26 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed Aug 2012)
^Pickford, M. and Morales, J. (2003) New Listriodontinae (Mammalia, Suidae) from Europe and a review of listriodont evolution, biostratigraphy and biogeography, GEODIVERSITAS,,25, Publications Scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris
^Haviland, William A.; Prins, Harald E. L.; Walrath, Dana; McBride, Bunny (2007). Evolution and prehistory: the human challenge. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-0-495-38190-7.
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