|
JK 1259 IV/I |
8284 |
40 - JK |
|
I |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
VI |
1 |
|
-- |
Incisor. Card in bag with specimen states "OLD Bed III, JK primate? six teeth, five non primate, one hyaena (lower vert.?) 1256, JK 1258 III/2, JK 1254 71/I and JK 1255 IV/3. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
COP-12-96 |
9680 |
|
|
AXIS |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
Masek |
|
|
-- |
|
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/22 |
254 - COP |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
BMNHM14910 |
9300 |
|
|
R-I |
|
129 - National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (RMNH) |
IV |
|
|
-- |
Right maxillary I2. |
159 - R. Bernor |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
Equinae |
Hipparionini |
Eurygnathohippus |
|
|
Inventoried by Ray Bernor. Identified by Bernor as genus Eurygnathohippus. |
No |
|
M. 14682 |
10382 |
|
|
Part of a left mandibular ramus with P3-M1 and the alveolus for P2. |
1934 |
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
IV |
upper part, Middle Pleistocene |
Kanjeran Pluvial |
LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14. |
|
|
1934 |
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
Potamochoerus |
majus |
|
Holotype. Originally classified as Koiropotamus majus (Hopwood, 1934). Reclassified as Potamochoerus majus (Leakey, 1942). |
Unknown |
|
OVPP-Cichlidae 23 |
2806 |
19 - SHK |
|
VER, SPINE |
1955 |
104 - Unknown |
IV |
|
|
Greenwood, P., and Todd, E. 1970. Fish remains from Olduvai. In: Fossil Vertebrates of Africa,vol. 2 New York: Academic Press. pp. 225-241. |
It is unclear how many individuals are represented by these specimens. |
151 - Greenwood and Todd |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Actinopterygii |
Perciformes |
|
|
|
Cichlidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-90 |
12954 |
40 - JK |
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
IV |
|
|
-- |
OLD-90 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Ceratomorpha |
Tapiromorpha |
Rhinocerotoidea |
Rhinocerotidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-1384 |
13121 |
324 - NGI |
|
R-TIB-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
IV |
S |
|
-- |
OLD-1384; distal R-TIB-f; "OLD NGI IV S 20.v.35" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
|
|
|
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-1488 |
13142 |
27 - MNK |
|
LIMB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
IV |
S |
|
-- |
OLD-1488; podial; "Oldoway MNK IV S 15.5.35" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
|
|
|
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OH 22 |
3737 |
73 - VEK/MNK |
|
R-MAN-f
, R-P
, R-M
, R-I-f
, R-C-f |
1968 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
III/IV |
|
Surface, indeterminate gravel |
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Right half of mandible with roots of I1-C and complete P3-M2. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
cf. erectus |
|
|
No |
|
OH 34 |
3749 |
76 - JK W |
|
FEM
, TIB-f |
1962 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
III/ IV |
for Bed IV level = a |
|
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Femur described as "slender" (Leakey MD, 1971) and shaft of tibia. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
sp. |
|
Slender bone |
No |
|
M. 21447 |
181 |
23 - TK |
|
CRA, L/R-MAX-f, L-HOR, L/R-P, L/R-M, L/R-I |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
III, IV |
|
4 feet below Masek Beds |
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This neotype specimen is pictured in plates 81 and 82. The original holotype of M. kattwinkelli (VI-1099) was lost in WWII in Munich. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Xenocephalus |
kattwinkelli |
|
Neotype - This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Megalotragus kattwinkeli. |
No |
|
OVPP-24 |
7701 |
|
|
MAX-f, I, M, PHX |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
III, II |
|
Contact scree slope |
-- |
Maxilla fragment with four incisors, two molars and one intermediate phalanx. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2012/6/28 |
253 - OVPP |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Syncerus 2 |
766 |
46 - JK 2 |
|
M?, I?, P? |
|
104 - Unknown |
III |
|
|
Gentry, A. W., and Gentry, A. 1978. Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Geology 29:289-446. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Syncerus |
acoelotus |
|
The authors describe teeth but not specifically which type(s) of teeth that are more likely to be from S. acoelotus than P. antiquus. |
No |
|
JK 2 GP8 III GN 22 |
1168 |
46 - JK 2 |
|
TIB |
|
104 - Unknown |
III |
|
|
Gentry, A. W., and Gentry, A. 1978. Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Geology 29:289-446. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
This specimen is probably of Parmularius angusticornis or Damaliscus niro. It could also be from Connochaetes. |
No |
|
OVPP-Clarias 34 |
2807 |
66 - SHK SS |
|
L-SPINE |
1955 |
104 - Unknown |
III |
|
|
Greenwood, P., and Todd, E. 1970. Fish remains from Olduvai. In: Fossil Vertebrates of Africa,vol. 2 New York: Academic Press. pp. 225-241. |
|
151 - Greenwood and Todd |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Actinopterygii |
Siluriformes |
|
|
|
Clariidae |
|
|
Clarias |
|
|
This specimen is "probably" from Clarias. |
No |
|
OVPP-Testudines 11 |
3078 |
24 - DK |
|
PERI |
|
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
III |
|
|
-- |
Original information indicated that this specimen was located in Nairobi. This specimen is likely within the material that was repatriated to Dar in 2011, but this has yet to be confirmed. |
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
OH 59 |
3774 |
40 - JK |
|
L-I-f |
1962 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
III |
|
|
-- |
Upper left central incisor crown. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
JK 1258 III/2 |
8282 |
40 - JK |
|
I |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
III |
2 |
|
-- |
Incisor. Card in bag with specimen states "OLD. Bed III, JK Primate? six teeth, five non -primate one hyaena (lower vert.?) 1254 : RM3 colobine ED 81" Specimen found in bag with JK 1254 71/I, 1257, JK 1259 VI/I, 1256 and JK 1255 VI /3. |
|
2012/08/13 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-74 |
12849 |
|
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
III |
|
|
-- |
OLD-74; distal end tibia |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-181 |
12472 |
|
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-181; "tibia, almost complete, missing prox articulation" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
|
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-27 |
12530 |
69 - GRK S |
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-27; distal end of tibia |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
|
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-30 |
12545 |
317 - MRK S |
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-30; distal end of tibia; immature, epiphysis, sediment adhering |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
|
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-31 |
12549 |
69 - GRK S |
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-31; distal end of tibia; immature |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
|
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-80 |
12896 |
10 - BK |
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
S |
|
-- |
OLD-80; distal end of tibia; BK II S |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-81 |
12907 |
51 - HEK |
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-81; distal end of tibia |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-85 |
12932 |
50 - GHTK |
|
TIB |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
S |
|
-- |
OLD-85; distal end of tibia; GHTK II S |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-924 |
12960 |
313 - GRK |
|
L-MAN-f, I (2) |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-924; L-MAN-f with symphysis and I1-2; GRK II 8.5.35 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suina |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
Kolpochoerus |
olduvaiensis |
|
|
No |
|
M 104170 |
13068 |
30 - DC |
|
I |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
S |
|
-- |
OLD-1152; "OLD Y DC II S" ? |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
|
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
BMNHM17011 |
9308 |
|
|
L-I |
|
129 - National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (RMNH) |
II |
|
|
-- |
Left maxillary I1. |
159 - R. Bernor |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
Equinae |
Hipparionini |
Eurygnathohippus |
|
|
Inventoried by Ray Bernor. Identified by Bernor as genus Eurygnathohippus. |
No |
|
COP-12-13 |
9598 |
|
|
I |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
II |
Lower |
|
-- |
|
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/21 |
254 - COP |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
COP-12-93 |
9677 |
|
|
AXIS |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
II |
|
|
-- |
|
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/22 |
254 - COP |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Hippopotamoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
COP-12-111 |
9695 |
|
|
TIB |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
II |
|
|
-- |
|
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/23 |
254 - COP |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Hippopotamoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
COP-12-122 |
9706 |
|
|
MAN-f, L/R-I, L/R-C-f |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
II |
Upper |
|
-- |
Mandibular symphysis with left and right I1 and left I2 erupting, left and right canine roots present and alveolus for left P1. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/23 |
254 - COP |
Unknown |
Y |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-374 |
9745 |
|
|
TIB-f |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
II |
Lower |
|
-- |
Proximal tibia. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/24 |
253 - OVPP |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Carnivora |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-406 |
9777 |
|
|
PHX, LIMB |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
II |
Lower |
On top of Tuff 1F. |
-- |
Phalanx and long bone. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/24 |
253 - OVPP |
No |
|
Reptilia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
M. 17071 |
10384 |
|
|
The greater part of a mandible. |
1953 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
Chellean I Living Site |
LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14. |
marked Old. B.K.II, 1953/454; Brit. Mus. Palaeont. Dept. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
1958 |
|
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
Potamochoerus |
majus |
|
|
Yes |
|
M. 17073 |
10386 |
|
|
An isolated lower canine tooth. |
1953 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
B.K.II |
LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14. |
Brit. Mus. Palaeont. Dept. Marked Old. B.K.II, 1953/443 |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
1958 |
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suina |
|
Suoidea |
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
Potamochoerus |
majus |
|
|
Yes |
|
M. 17112 |
10387 |
|
|
An upper third molar in a fragment of maxilla. |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
F.L.K. |
|
Brit. Mus. Palaeont. Dept. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
1958 |
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suina |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
Suidae |
|
Potamochoerus |
majus |
|
|
Yes |
|
M. 17090 |
10388 |
|
|
A broken fragment of the left side of a mandible with damaged first molar, but with second and third molars intact. |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
Kamasian Pluvial |
LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14. |
Holotype. Formerly Coryndon Museum No. F. 3666. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
1942 |
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suina |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
Suinae |
Suini |
Mesochoerus |
olduvaiensis |
|
|
Yes |
|
M. 20231 |
67 |
|
|
TIB-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
No locality given. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Carnivora |
Feliformia |
|
|
Felidae |
Pantherinae |
|
Panthera |
crassidens |
|
The author suggests this specimen may belong to the subfamily Machairodontinae. |
No |