- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1963
- ID By:
- 154 - Leakey and Leakey
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 264 - Leakey family expedition
- Repository:
- 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Bibilographic Information:
- Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Curatorial Notes:
- Upper and lower dentition, calotte, and > 1500 unidentified fragments due to cattle trampling. Majority of fragments found on surface of Tuff IF, some teeth found in situ, 2 feet above Tuff IF. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya.
OH 16
- CODI ID:
- 3731
- Arch. Locality:
- 72 - FLK Maiko Gully
- Geo. Locality:
- 283 - 45
- Elements Preserved:
- CRA-f , TOOTH , MAN ,
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Primates
- Suborder:
- Anthropoidea
- Infraorder:
- Haplorhini
- Superfamily:
- Hominoidea
- Family:
- Hominidae
- Subfamily:
- Homininae
- Tribe:
- Hominini
- Genus:
- Homo
- Species:
- habilis
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Leakey LSB, 1964 refers to this specimen as Homo erectus. Leakey, Tobias, and Napier provisionally assign it to Homo habilis (referred material, not paratype) (1964), and Leakey MD, 1971 refers to it as cf. Australopithecus.
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- II
- Level:
- base
- In Situ:
- No
- Stratigraphic Horizon: