- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1934
- ID By:
- 130 - L.S.B. Leakey
- ID Date:
- 1942
- Research Team:
- Repository:
- 106 - Natural History Museum UK (?)
- Bibilographic Information:
- LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14.
- Curatorial Notes:
- British Museum Palaeontology Department
M. 14683
- CODI ID:
- 10383
- Arch. Locality:
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- Two upper tusks, probably of the same individual.
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Suiformes
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Suoidea
- Family:
- Suidae
- Subfamily:
- Tribe:
- Genus:
- Potamochoerus
- Species:
- majus
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Paratypes. Originally classified as Koiropotamus majus (Hopwood, 1934). Reclassified as Potamochoerus majus (Leakey, 1942).
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- I
- Level:
- lower part, Middle Pleistocene
- In Situ:
- Unknown
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- Kamasian Pluvial