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IMPORTANT NOTE: We have maintained the originally published taxonomic designation for each specimen despite the fact that many of these specimens have been reclassified since.  We chose to follow this protocol because of the difficulty in keeping up to date with all of the taxonomic groups, and our hesitancy to make a judgement call on taxonomic debates.  As such, please search the database with this in mind, perhaps using higher level taxonomic classifications for your query.

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138 specimens found
Image Spec # CODI Database ID Arch. Locality Geo. Locality Elements Preserved Excavation Date Repository Bed Level Stratigraphic Horizon Bibliographic Information Curatorial Notes ID By ID Date Research Team In Situ Sediment or Matrix Adhering Class Order Suborder Infraorder Superfamily Family Subfamily Tribe Genus Species Subspecies Taxonomic Notes Taxonomic Problems
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
OVPP-323 8001 TOOTH-f 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower 1 meter above Bed I lavas. -- tooth fragment 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/07/11 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
MB.Ma.7065 9218 TOOTH-f 128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany -- Tooth frag & thin section by W. Janensch. Reck field number: XIX 1548. Mfn room number: 2251. 273 - Reck expedition Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
OVPP-690 10063 MAX-f, TOOTH 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower Surface, sandstone with pebbles about 5m above gray sandstone. -- Maxilla fragment with 3 teeth in matrix. Needs prep. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/07 253 - OVPP No Y Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OLD-558 11952 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-558 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-895 12243 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-895 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-842 12301 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-842 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-820 12310 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-820 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-187 12478 TOOTH (10) 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-187; "Olduvai surface pig"; Molars some with MAX-f adhering, some with MAN-f adhering, some unworn, one canine Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae No
OLD-503 12677 39 - MRC TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-503 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OLD-611 12756 316 - VEK S L-MAN-f, TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-611; juvenile Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suina Suoidea Suidae No
OLD-717 12831 MAN-f, TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-717; MAN-f with one tooth root; 7 pieces Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OLD-781 12882 27 - MNK TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK IV -- OLD-781; "OLDY MNK IV ? S 15/5/35" Unknown maybe MAN or MAX adhering; in concretion Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OLD-857 12937 70 - EHK TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK I -- OLD-857; premolar?; EHK I surface L.35 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OLD-911 12958 I (2), TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-911; juvenile; 2 incisors and one other tooth, possibly premolar Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suina Suoidea Suidae No
OLD-250 11796 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-250 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-251 11797 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-251 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-252 11798 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-252 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-253 11799 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-253 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-254 11800 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-254 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-248 11845 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-248 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-135 12426 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-135; "tooth" Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae No
OLD-136 12427 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-136; tooth fragment in carbonate nodule Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae No
OH 11 3726 24 - DK 285 - 13 PAL , L-MAX-f , TOOTH-f 1962 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Ndutu Lower Found in stream bed at bottom of gully near DK excavations. See curatorial notes for details. Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Left half of palate and maxillary arch, crowns of teeth not preserved. "It is thus impossible to assign to any stratigraphic level, although the condition of the bone, which bears a pinkish tinge, is similar to that seen in fossil bones from a conglomerate at the head of the DK gully belonging to the lower Ndutu Beds" (Leakey MD, 1971:230). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 154 - Leakey and Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo sp. No
OH 12 3727 18 - VEK 286 - 86 OCC , L/R-PAR , L/R-TEM-f , CRA-f , L-PAL , L-MAX , TOOTH-f 1962 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania IV? a Surface. Found on eroded slope of Bed III. L-TEM-f from just below marker Tuff IVa. Leakey, L., and Leakey, M. 1964. Recent discoveries of fossil hominids in tanganyika: at Olduvai and near Lake Natron. Nature 202:5-7. Crowns of teeth not preserved. Bed IVA determined on basis of matrix adhering to L-TEM-f and PAL. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition No L-TEM-f & PAL found with matrix adhering. Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo erectus No
OH 16 3731 72 - FLK Maiko Gully 283 - 45 CRA-f , TOOTH , MAN , 1963 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II base Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 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. 154 - Leakey and Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis 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. Yes
OH 30 3745 72 - FLK Maiko Gully 283 - 45 TOOTH , d-TOOTH , CRA-f , 1969 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II Lower Surface "Parts deciduous and germ dentitions" (Leakey MD, 1971:234). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Australopithecus boisei No
OH 39 3754 37 - HWK EE TOOTH , d-TOOTH 1972 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I Upper In fallen block from Upper Bed I. Surface. Leakey, M.D. 1978. Olduvai fossil hominids:their stratigraphic positions and associations. In: Jolly, CJ, editor. Early hominids of Africa. London:Duckworth. P. 3-16. Upper dentitions: Partial permanent and deciduous dentition. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 142 - M. D. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis No
OH 46 3761 6 - FLK NN TOOTH 1960 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 3 Leakey, M.D. 1978. Olduvai fossil hominids:their stratigraphic positions and associations. In: Jolly, CJ, editor. Early hominids of Africa. London:Duckworth. P. 3-16. Broken crown of molar or premolar. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 142 - M. D. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Australopithecus boisei No
OH 64 3779 81 - HWK W TOOTH 1989 104 - Unknown II Lowermost 20 mm above Tuff IF in "basal waxy clay". Clarke, R.J. Published online 4 May 2012. A Homo habilis maxilla and other newly-discovered hominid fossils from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Olduvai Special issue, JHE Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Australopithecus boisei No
OH 65 3780 82 - 64 MAX , TOOTH 1995 127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania I Middle/Upper Blumenschine, R. J., Peters, C. R., Masao, F. T., et al. 2003. Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Science 299, 1217-1221. Author describes specimen as "complete maxilla with all teeth and lower face of adult". Specimen is pictured in images 1-11. (Images from R. Clarke 2011). Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis Large habilis No
OH 71 3786 24 - DK TOOTH 2003 127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania I Lower “Discovered by an Earthwatch project led by F.T. Masao in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and will be described elsewhere.” -R. Clarke (2011) Specimen is shown. Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae No
OH 72 3787 24 - DK TOOTH 2004 127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania I Lower “Discovered by an Earthwatch project led by F.T. Masao in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and will be described elsewhere.” -R. Clarke (2011) Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae No
OH 62/998 8412 FEM-f, TOOTH 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Femoral head and teeth. 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae No
OVPP-L-213 8334 TOOTH 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- Specimen label: OLD-??-?E?-?-5. Box #: OLD 86. Box label: Teeth 158 - W. Reiner 2012/07/01 Unknown Y Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Hippopotamoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-883 11418 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-883 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-290 11427 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-290; found in box with yellow card, but no label on bones, so we don't know if the yellow card corresponds Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-694 11435 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-694 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-948 11825 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-948 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-313 11867 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-313 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes