 |
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 |
|
OVPP-Crocidura 3 |
416 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
middle |
1, 3 |
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Insectivora |
|
|
Soricoidea |
Soricidae |
Crocidurinae |
|
Crocidura |
hindei |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Chelonia 5 |
693 |
7 - FLK North |
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
II |
lower |
|
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Several tortoises are represented in beds 1, 2, and 4. There is no mention of how many specimens or what elements are preserved. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Chelonia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Indet. |
|
|
|
No |
|
DK I 141 |
966 |
24 - DK |
|
HUM |
|
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 |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
altidens |
|
|
No |
|
FLK N I 231 |
1234 |
7 - FLK North |
|
MAN |
|
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. |
This mandible is from an immature individual. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Antidorcas |
recki |
|
|
No |
|
D. 33 |
1491 |
5 - FLK |
|
MTC-f |
1960 |
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
Gentry, A. W. 1966 Fossil Antilopini of East Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Geology. 12: 43-106. 9 pls. |
Proximal end |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
|
|
|
No |
|
1953 BK II Extension 425 |
1815 |
10 - BK |
|
R-RAD-f |
1953 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
|
|
Gentry, A. W. 1967. Pelorovis oldowayensis Reck, an extinct bovid from East Africa: British Museum. pp. 245-299 |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Pelorovis |
oldowayensis |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Cichlidae 11 |
2572 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
RAY, VER, SPINE |
1960 |
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
3 |
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. The specimens are from trench VI (980). |
151 - Greenwood and Todd |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Actinopterygii |
Perciformes |
|
|
|
Cichlidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
01. R. M5-18 |
3148 |
|
|
R-MAN-f, M |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
Jaeger, J.J. 1976. Les rongeurs (Mammalia, Rodentia) du Pleistocene inferieur d’Olduvai Bed I (Tanzanie) 1ere Partie: Les Murides. Fossil vertebrates of Africa 4:58-120. |
This species is found at FLK NI, layers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; FLK NNI, layers 1, 2, and 3; FLK I, Zinjanthropus layer. It is unclear where individual specimens come from, however. |
153 - J. Jaeger |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Rodentia |
Myomorpha |
Myodonta |
Muroidea |
Muridae |
Murinae |
|
Mus |
petteri |
|
|
No |
|
01. R. M2-273 |
3405 |
|
|
MAN-f, M |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
Jaeger, J.J. 1976. Les rongeurs (Mammalia, Rodentia) du Pleistocene inferieur d’Olduvai Bed I (Tanzanie) 1ere Partie: Les Murides. Fossil vertebrates of Africa 4:58-120. |
This species is found at FLK NNI layer 2 and 3; FLK NI layers 1-6; FLK I Main site. It is unclear where individual specimens were recovered. |
153 - J. Jaeger |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Rodentia |
Myomorpha |
Myodonta |
Muroidea |
Muridae |
Murinae |
|
Zelotomys |
leakeyi |
|
|
No |
|
01. R. M5-520 |
3662 |
|
|
L-MAN-f, M |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
Jaeger, J.J. 1976. Les rongeurs (Mammalia, Rodentia) du Pleistocene inferieur d’Olduvai Bed I (Tanzanie) 1ere Partie: Les Murides. Fossil vertebrates of Africa 4:58-120. |
This species is found at FLK NNI layers 2 and 3; FLK NI layers 1-6; FLK I. It is unclear where individual specimens were recovered. |
153 - J. Jaeger |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Rodentia |
Myomorpha |
Myodonta |
Muroidea |
Muridae |
Murinae |
|
Aethomys |
lavocati |
|
|
No |
 |
361 |
3938 |
|
|
MTT |
|
|
I/II |
|
|
Petter, G. 1973. Carnivores Pleistocenes du ravin d’Olduvai (Tanzanie). Fossil vertebrates of Africa 3:43-100. |
Specimen is the third metatarsal. Author lists specimen in an assemblage that is described as coming from FLK N, FLK NN, KK, BK, and DK but does not specifically assign site. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2012/6/25 |
|
Unknown |
|
Aves |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
124 |
6579 |
19 - SHK |
|
L-FRO, L-SPHT |
1957 |
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
Greenwood, P., and Todd, E. 1970. Fish remains from Olduvai. In: Fossil Vertebrates of Africa,vol. 2 New York: Academic Press. pp. 225-241. |
The two bones are in articulation. |
151 - Greenwood and Todd |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Actinopterygii |
Siluriformes |
|
|
|
Clariidae |
|
|
Clarias |
sp. |
|
|
No |
 |
OVPP-168 |
7846 |
|
|
FEM |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
III/IV |
|
Five meters below Masek/Ndutu. |
-- |
Needs preparation- in three pieces. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2012/07/06 |
253 - OVPP |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD 61/2974 |
8104 |
|
|
MAN-f |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
|
-- |
Fragment of alveolar margin of mandible. Card in bag states "Field no. 067/2974, Bed I, MPC I, OLD 1961". Pleistocene. |
|
2012/07/26 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OVPP-L-237 |
8379 |
|
|
M |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
-- |
Specimen label: OLD-87-87-Z-S. Box #: OLD 87-3-E. |
158 - W. Reiner |
2012/07/01 |
|
Unknown |
Y |
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
1931 II 594 |
8641 |
|
|
MTT |
1913 |
116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany |
|
|
|
Black E. 1937. Fossil Antelopes of Olduvai. Scientific results of the Olduvai Expedition 1913:64. |
Distal epiphysis (juvenile). Label/publication taxon ID: Gorgon taurinus semiticus. Reck Field No.: XVI 1272. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Megalotragus |
kattwinkeli |
|
Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |
 |
1931 II 811 |
8897 |
|
|
I |
1913 |
116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany |
|
|
|
Black E. 1937. Fossil Antelopes of Olduvai. Scientific results of the Olduvai Expedition 1913:61. |
Incisor. Label/publication taxon ID: Gorgon taurinus semiticus. Reck Field No.: VI 213. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Megalotragus |
kattwinkeli |
|
Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |
 |
1931 II 919 |
9153 |
|
|
THO |
1913 |
116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany |
|
|
|
-- |
Thoracic. Label/publication taxon ID: Philantomba monticola. Reck Field No.: IV 269. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
|
|
|
Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |
|
RMNH1 |
9409 |
|
|
FEM |
|
129 - National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (RMNH) |
|
|
|
-- |
|
159 - R. Bernor |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
Equinae |
Hipparionini |
Eurygnathohippus |
|
|
Inventoried by Ray Bernor. Identified by Bernor as genus Eurygnathohippus. |
No |
 |
COP-12-83 |
9667 |
|
|
M |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
I |
|
|
-- |
|
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/22 |
254 - COP |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OVPP-552 |
9923 |
|
|
HOR |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
I |
Lower |
Sand about 1.5m below Tuff IA. |
-- |
|
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/30 |
253 - OVPP |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD FLK NI 19721 |
10198 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
ULNA-f |
1960-2 |
|
I |
|
|
Haarhoff, P.J. 1993. Latest Pliocene mousebirds (Aves, Coliidae) from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Ann S Afr Mus. 103:191–211. |
One proximal end of an ulna. "The specimen numbers are catalogue numbers of the Olduvai fossil birds, and the data are kept at the Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville. The fossils belong to the Tanzanian Ministry of Antiquities, Dar es Salaam. They were collected by Mary Leakey in 1960-1962" (Haarhoff, 1993:193). |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Aves |
Coliiformes |
|
|
|
Coliidae |
Urocoliinae |
|
Urocolius |
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD-883 |
11418 |
|
|
TOOTH |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-883 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
|
|
|
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OLD-1347a |
11615 |
19 - SHK |
|
PHX |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-1347a; proximal phalanx |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
|
|
|
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
OLD-306 |
11866 |
|
|
AST |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-306 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
|
|
|
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
 |
OLD-1905 |
11990 |
|
|
LIMB-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-1905; unidentified limb immature fragment |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OLD-1181 |
12019 |
19 - SHK |
|
R-MTC-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
Bed II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-1181; right metacarpal proximal end fragment |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
Behemota |
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Antidorcas |
recki |
|
|
Yes |
|
OLD-716 |
12335 |
|
|
TUSK |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-716 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Suidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
 |
OLD-110 |
12402 |
|
|
PHX |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-110; PHX intermediate |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
M 103884 |
12850 |
|
|
M |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
|
|
-- |
OLD-740; lower left M1 or M2; collected by Bate and Oakley; presented 1947 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Tragelaphini |
Tragelaphus |
|
|
|
No |
 |
M. 104123 |
13020 |
|
|
L-M |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
|
|
-- |
Left upper M2; OLD-1106; (Last edit SC 2019) |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
|
No |
 |
M. 21448 |
140 |
|
|
FRO, HOR |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
surface |
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 61. |
293 - A.T. Hopwood |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
gigas |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Crocidura 4 |
417 |
7 - FLK North |
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
upper |
3, 4, 5 |
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Insectivora |
|
|
Soricoidea |
Soricidae |
Crocidurinae |
|
Crocidura |
hindei |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Chelonia 6 |
694 |
14 - HWK E |
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
II |
lower |
All levels |
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Several tortoises are represented in beds 1, 2, and 4. There is no mention of how many specimens or what elements are preserved. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Reptilia |
Chelonia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Indet. |
|
|
|
No |
|
DK I 58 |
967 |
24 - DK |
|
RAD |
|
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 |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
altidens |
|
|
No |
|
FLK N I 1310 |
1235 |
7 - FLK North |
|
MAN |
|
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. |
This mandible is from an immature individual. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Antidorcas |
recki |
|
|
No |
|
D. 34 |
1492 |
5 - FLK |
|
MTC-f |
1960 |
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
Gentry, A. W. 1966 Fossil Antilopini of East Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Geology. 12: 43-106. 9 pls. |
Proximal end |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
|
|
|
No |
|
1952 BK II 188 |
1816 |
10 - BK |
|
R-RAD-f |
1952 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
|
|
Gentry, A. W. 1967. Pelorovis oldowayensis Reck, an extinct bovid from East Africa: British Museum. pp. 245-299 |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Pelorovis |
oldowayensis |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Clarias 21 |
2573 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
FRO, MSEH, SPHT, L-OPER, SKULL-f, L/R-QUAD, L/R-DNTY, RAY-f |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
3 |
Greenwood, P., and Todd, E. 1970. Fish remains from Olduvai. In: Fossil Vertebrates of Africa,vol. 2 New York: Academic Press. pp. 225-241. |
MNI=3.These specimens are from trench VI. |
151 - Greenwood and Todd |
|
|
Yes |
|
Actinopterygii |
Siluriformes |
|
|
|
Clariidae |
|
|
Clarias |
sp. |
|
|
No |