 |
1957.56 P.P.T.3 |
139 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA-f, L/R-HOR |
1957 |
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
I |
upper |
Upper Villafranchian |
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plates 59 and 60. It is from a female. 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. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
gigas |
|
Paratype |
No |
|
M. 104084 |
12569 |
18 - VEK |
|
R-M |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
|
|
-- |
"VEK I"; Right upper M3; OLD-365; (Last edit SC 2019) |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
|
No |
|
M. 14563 |
206 |
18 - VEK |
|
R-FRO, R-HOR |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
273 - Reck expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Neotragini |
Phenacotragus |
recki |
|
This specimen was reclassified as Gazella wellsi by Gentry (1966) and later to Antidorcas recki by Gentry and Gentry (1978). |
No |
 |
M. 21422 |
155 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA-f, L/R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
138 - E. Schwarz |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
Matrix adhering to specimen suggests it came from Bed 2. |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
angusticornius |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Parmularius angusticornis. |
No |
 |
M. 21428 |
160 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA, L/R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plates 68 and 69. The specimen has VEK II written on it but it is registered as VEK I. |
138 - E. Schwarz |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
angusticornis |
|
Paratype - This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Parmularius angusticornis. |
No |
 |
M. 21429 |
211 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA, L/R-HOR-f |
1932 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II? |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
The specimen was badly crushed prior to fossilization. It is pictured in plate 91. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
This specimen was reclassified as Parmularius cf. angusticornis by Gentry and Gentry (1978). Gentry and Gentry (1978) say this specimen's horn cores have attributes of P. antiquus as well. |
No |
 |
M. 21451 |
128 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA-f, R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
III, IV |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This holotype was found at the junction of Beds 3 and 4. It is pictured in plates 49 and 50. [This species is documented at SHK II, FLK N I, and BK II (Leakey, 1971).] |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Gorgon |
olduvaiensis |
|
Holotype - Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Connochaetes taurinus olduvaiensis. |
No |
|
M. 21456 |
1203 |
18 - VEK |
|
L-HOR |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Gentry, A. W. 1966 Fossil Antilopini of East Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Geology. 12: 43-106. 9 pls. |
This specimen was originally assigned to G. wellsi by Gentry (1966). |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
273 - Reck expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
wellsi |
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Antidorcas recki. |
No |
|
M. 21457 |
185 |
18 - VEK |
|
FRO-f, HOR |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Neotragini |
Phenacotragus |
|
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Antidorcas recki. |
No |
 |
M. 21462 |
188 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA, L/R-HOR |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
The specimen is pictured in plate 85. It is pictured in plate 5 of Gentry (1966). |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
|
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Antidorcas recki. |
No |
|
M. 22361 |
1204 |
18 - VEK |
|
L-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
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 |
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Antidorcas |
recki |
|
|
No |
|
M. 22365 |
1196 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA, R/L-HOR |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
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 |
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Antidorcas |
recki |
|
|
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 68 |
3783 |
18 - VEK |
|
Mand-f, R-P-f |
2001 |
127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania |
II |
Lower |
|
|
Mandible fragment with unerupted P4 and root of M1.Specimen is pictured in the middle in image 1.Specimen is shown in the middle of the top row in image 2. |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
|
|
Australopithecus |
africanus |
|
OH 13-like |
No |
|
OLD-14 |
12430 |
18 - VEK |
|
M-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
|
|
|
Current location 17E; drawer 5; "O VEK I" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Proboscidea |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Elephantidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-145 |
12436 |
18 - VEK |
|
PHX |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
|
|
-- |
OLD-145 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Proboscidea |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Elephantidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD-1577 |
13163 |
18 - VEK |
|
MTP-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
|
|
-- |
OLD-1577; distal MTP-f |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD-1580 |
13166 |
18 - VEK |
|
MTP-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
S |
|
-- |
OLD-1580; distal MTP-f |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD-1640 |
13172 |
18 - VEK |
|
MTP-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
S |
|
-- |
OLD-1640; distal MTP-f |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD-228 |
12502 |
18 - VEK |
|
AST |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
IV |
|
|
-- |
OLD-228 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Proboscidea |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Elephantidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD-233 |
12508 |
18 - VEK |
|
FEM-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-233; femoral head fragment; "VEK Site antiquus s?" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Proboscidea |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Elephantidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD-359 |
12565 |
18 - VEK |
|
M |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
|
|
-- |
OLD-359; 1450 (?); "OLD Y VEK I 18.V.35" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
in Hippo drawer |
Unknown |
 |
OLD-610 |
11965 |
18 - VEK |
|
NAV |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-610 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Ceratomorpha |
Tapiromorpha |
Rhinocerotoidea |
Rhinocerotidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-Testudines 15 |
6853 |
18 - VEK |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
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 |
|
OVPP-Testudines 15 |
3086 |
18 - VEK |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
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 |
|
VEK I 56 P.P.T. 3 |
849 |
18 - VEK |
|
HOR, CRA |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
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 |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
gigas |
|
|
No |