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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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7924 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
OLD/69 S. 6I 8195 L-M, TOOTH-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Left upper third molar (root and buccal side is broken) and tooth fragment. Card in bag with specimen states "Upper M3 with broken outer root. Cercopithecoidea, papio sp. surface Bed II TK B9". Other card in bag states "Upper molar papio sp". 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
2965 8196 M 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Third Molar. Card in bag with specimen states "OLD 1963 DK. Strip I L/I, Cercopithecoidea, Cercopithecinae, Cercocebus". Other card in bag with specimen states "Lower third molar,Cercopithecoidea cf. papio. L.S.B Leakey `63, field no: 067/2965 strip I L/I,1963". 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/69 S.92 SHK 8197 19 - SHK R-FEM 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Right proximal femur. Pleistocene. MD Leakey. 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae Cynocephalinae Simopithecus No
OLD 1957/1203 SHK II E 8198 62 - SHK E R-FEM 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II -- Proximal end of right femur including head and greater trochanter and part of shaft. In BM loan collection. 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD 1957/1384 BK II E 8199 49 - BK E L-HUM 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II -- Distal end and part of shaft of left humerus.Card in bag with specimen states "Cercopithecoidea. Simopithecus?" Pleistocene. 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OVPP-Genetta 3 82 6 - FLK NN M 104 - Unknown I middle 2, 3 Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 130 - L.S.B. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Carnivora Feliformia Viverridae Viverrinae Genetta sp. No
BK II 1957.1362 820 10 - BK L-M 1957 104 - Unknown 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 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Reduncinae Reduncini Kobus kob These lower molars are of a reduncine and are of appropriate size for K. kob. No
068/6641 FLK I OPP. ZINJ 8200 72 - FLK Maiko Gully R-HUM 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I Opposite Zinj. -- Distal end of right humerus. Pleistocene. Card in bag with specimen states "Olduvai". 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/62 MCK II S KNM? 2534? 8201 80 - MCK FIB-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II Surface -- Distal end of fibula with portion of shaft. Pleistocene. 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/63/4135 DK I L/2 8202 24 - DK R-FEM-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2 Strip III -- Distal end of right femur. Pleistocene. Card in bag with specimen states "Strip III". 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD G/13 Simopith? 8203 72 - FLK Maiko Gully R-FEM-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I G/13? -- Long bone shaft fragment (right femur shaft?) Card in bag with specimen states "LSB Leakey `60 Field NO: 067/3684 FLK I OLD 1960 G/13 Pleistocene". 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
067/4668 FLK NN Tr. Trench/4 8204 6 - FLK NN R-FEM-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 4 Trench -- Proximal half of right femur. Pleistocene. Card in bag with specimen states "LSB Leakey `60 LOC: Olduvai Field No: 067/4667 L/4 FLK NN I OLD 60". 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD 1963/ 4372 DK I L/3 8205 24 - DK L-FEM 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 3 -- Complete left femur. LSB Leakey. Card in bag with specimen states "Strip III. Cercopithecidae Cynocephalinae genus indet. left femur... much more slender than any recorded[?] species of Simopithecus...". [See card in photograph; writing on card barely legible.] 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/63 5697 DK I II/1 8206 24 - DK R-FRO-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I,II? 1 -- Specimen number crossed out on fossil. Fragment of right orbital rim of frontal bone. Fragment joins with OLD 63/3037 DK I and was found in some bag. Pleistocene. 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD 63/3037 DK I 8207 24 - DK FRO-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I -- Fragment of frontal bone with superior portion of orbital rim and metopic suture remnant. Right supercilliary arch present, medial half of left arch also preserved. Specimen consist of two fragments found in the same bag. One has a different specimen number that was crossed out (OLD/63/5697 DK I II/I) but fragment joins with other (OLD 63/3037 DK I). Card in bag with specimen goes with OLD 63/3037 DK I (Medial portion of orbital rim of frontal). 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD 1957/622 SHK II 8208 19 - SHK L-MAX-f, P, M 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II -- Fragment of left maxilla with third and forth premolar and first molar. In BM loan collection. Card in bag with specimen states "Canine socket suggests male". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD 53/256 SHK II E 8209 62 - SHK E M-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II -- Molar fragment. Pleistocene. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
BK II East 1953.442 821 49 - BK E L-HUM 1953 104 - Unknown 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 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Reduncinae Reduncini Kobus kob This humerus is of the right size and shape to be a kob but the authors are unsure. No
OLD 1957 BK II 8210 10 - BK M 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II -- Third molar. Card in bag with specimen states "Field NO: OLD `57 BK II 426. 4(2 or 8?)(6 or 3?). Upper M3. In BM loan collection". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
? 1965 8211 M 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Molar. Pleistocene. Card in bag with specimen states "LOC: OLD VAI LSB Leakey `65, Field No: OLD 1965 5/CF BK II OLD/63, Lower MI or 2 decidous. Cercopithecoidea. Pleistocene". Other card in bag with specimen states "OLD 63 BK II primate 5/CF 196. Molar Lower worn. cf. papio. ?Baboon". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD 1957/85 BK II 8212 10 - BK M 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II -- Unerupted molar. In BM loan collection. Card in bag with specimen states "3? 85". Other card in bag with specimen states "KNM 2.0047". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae Cynocephalinae Simopithecus No
067/1562 8213 M 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Molar. Card in bag with specimen states "Loc: Olduvai, LSB Leakey, Field No: 067/1562 5/CF BK II OLD 63. Molar unerupted, Cercopithecoidea. Pleistocene". Other card in bag with specimen states "OLD 63 BK II 5/CF 067/1562 primate. Tooth 3rd molar Simopithecus S ? of ? ". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/69 FLK S. 158 8214 5 - FLK R-M-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Right lower third molar. Very chipped and one side of root is broken. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae Cynocephalinae Simopithecus No
OLD/69 SHK S.101 8215 19 - SHK M-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Fragment of molar. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
067/2452 8216 TOOTH-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Tooth fragment. Card in bag with specimen states "Olduvai". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/69 FLK S.160 8217 5 - FLK L-I 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Left upper second incisor. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/69 LLK S.111 8218 71 - LLK M-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Distal fragment of lower third molar. No root, unworn. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae Cynocephalinae Simopithecus No
OLD/69 FLK S.159 8219 5 - FLK d-C 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania S. 159 -- Deciduous canine. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
BK II 1957.42 822 10 - BK L-HUM-f 1957 104 - Unknown 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 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Reduncinae Reduncini Kobus kob This humerus is likely from a kob but the authors are unsure. No
KNM 2?7 8220 M, MAX-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Unerupted molar and maxillary fragment with matrix. Pleistocene. Card in bag with specimen states "LOC: Olduvai, Field No: ?". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLDUVAI ? M 8221 L-MAN-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Jolly, C.J. 1965. Origins and specialization of the long-faced Cercopithecoidea. PhD thesis, University of London. Left mandible fragment. Card in bag with specimen states "Superior end of left ascending ramus condyle or coronoid. Process rather weathered. In BM loan collection. Field No: OLDUVAI". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
752 DK IA 8222 24 - DK PHX 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I A? -- Middle phalanx. Indeterminant species. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
067/3979 DK IC 8223 24 - DK L-AST 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I C? Surface -- Left astragulus. Card in bag with specimen states "LOC: OLDUVAI, OLD `62". Pleistocene. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/63 159 DK I I L/2 8224 24 - DK MTC 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Ii 2 Srip I -- Metacarpal. Pleistocene. Card in bag with specimen states "Cercopithecidae indeterminant". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
DK IA L/2 8225 24 - DK PHX 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2, C? -- Distal phalanx. Card in bag with specimen states "OLD 1963 DK IA L/2 5115 Cercopithecoidea. Cynocephalinae. Terminal phalange". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
Specimen not labeled. 8226 90 - DK (?) PHX-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I? 3? Strip 11/10? -- Distal end of middle phalanx. Card in bag with specimen states " OLD 63 DK I L/3 Strip II/10 5349. Cynocephalinae?". Other card in bag with specimen states OLD 1963 DK I Strip II/10 L/3. 5349" and the other card in bag with specimen states "distal end of middle phalange". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD/62 DK IA SCREE 8227 24 - DK R-CUBNAV 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I A? Scree surface -- Right navicular. Card in bag with specimen states "Field No: 067/4045". Pleistocene. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
DK I I/8 8228 24 - DK PHX-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 8 -- Distal phalanx. Card in bag with specimen states "Old 1963 DK I Strip I/8 L/2, 5794". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
Specimen not labeled. Found in bag with card written "OLD 1963 FLK II spit 4". 8229 5 - FLK PHX 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II Spit 4 -- Distal phalanx. Card in bag with specimen states "OLD 1963, FLK II Spit 4". Other card in bag with specimen states "Primate". Pleistocene. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
JK2 GP8 III 068/6694 823 46 - JK 2 FRLT, L-HOR, R-HOR-f 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. This specimen is pictured in plate 9. 137 - A. Gentry Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Reduncinae Reduncini Kobus kob No