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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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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
	OVPP-Tilapia 9	2452	24 - DK		VER, SPINE	1962	104 - Unknown	I		2	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			Yes		Actinopterygii	Perciformes				Cichlidae	Pseudocrenilabrinae	Tilapini	Tilapia			This specimen is "probably" Tilapia.	No
	OVPP-Cichlidae 14	2663	6 - FLK NN		OPER, VER-f, HMND-f, PTER, SPINE-f	1960	104 - Unknown	I		2, 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.The specimens are from trench II.	151 - Greenwood and Todd			Unknown		Actinopterygii	Perciformes				Cichlidae	Pseudocrenilabrinae	Tilapini	Tilapia			This specimen is "probably Tilapia."	No
	SHK II 1957.474	735	19 - SHK		L-TIB-f	1957	105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?)	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.	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.	137 - A. Gentry		264 - Leakey family expedition	Unknown		Mammalia	Artiodactyla	Ruminantia		Bovoidea	Bovidae	Bovinae	Tragelaphini	Tragelaphus	scriptus		The authors indicate this specimen is from a "bushbuck-sized tragelaphine", though it is described under the Tragelaphus aff. scriptus headline.	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
	OH 5	3713	5 - FLK	283 - 45	CRA , MAX , M , I , C , P	17 July - 6 August 1959	122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	I	Middle (Zinj.)	22 feet below the upper limit of Bed I (Tuff IF), approximately 20 feet above basalt.	Leakey, L. S. B. 1959. A new fossil skull from Olduvai. Nature 184:491-493.	Holotype. Almost complete cranium. Adolescent. One reconstructed fossil found at House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. Additional pieces from NMK unpublished.	142 - M. D. Leakey		264 - Leakey family expedition	Yes		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Hominoidea	Hominidae			Zinjanthropus	boisei		Holotype. This specimen was reclassified as Paranthropus boisei by Robinson (1960).	No