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Thirty-eight fossil hominids were collected during the 1972 season at East Rudolf, and the total now known from this locality is eighty-seven. Several specimens, including some attributable to Homo, were recovered from deposits that are below the KBS Tuff dated at 2.61 million years.
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LEAKEY, R. Further Evidence of Lower Pleistocene Hominids from East Rudolf, North Kenya, 1972. Nature 242, 170–173 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242170a0
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