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.