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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-922 11819 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-922 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-342 11875 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-342 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-87 11916 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-87 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-338 11919 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Bed I -- OLD-338 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-315 12231 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Bed I -- OLD-315 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-978 12277 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-978; found in box with 47, 978, 578, 689. Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-680 12343 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-680 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-581 11956 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-581 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla HIppopotamidae Yes
OLD-349 11386 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-349 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-699 11416 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-699 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-584 11420 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-584 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-583 11421 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-583 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-101 11422 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-101 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-692 11423 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-692 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-599 11430 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-599 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-605 11431 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-605 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-311 11432 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-311 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-370 11433 TUSK-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-370 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
MB.Ma.40615 9250 TUSK-f 1913 128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany -- Reck field number: IV 24. Mfn room number: 0026. 273 - Reck expedition Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Hippopotamoidea Hippopotamidae Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
MB.Ma.40616 9251 TUSK-f 1913 128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany -- Reck field number: IV 24. Mfn room number: 0026. 273 - Reck expedition Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Hippopotamoidea Hippopotamidae Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
MB.Ma.40617 9252 TUSK-f 1913 128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany -- Reck field number: IV 24. Mfn room number: 0026. 273 - Reck expedition Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Hippopotamoidea Hippopotamidae Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
OLD-576 12732 TUSK-f (3) 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-576 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
M. 14683 10383 Two upper tusks, probably of the same individual. 1934 106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) I lower part, Middle Pleistocene Kamasian Pluvial LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14. British Museum Palaeontology Department 130 - L.S.B. Leakey 1942 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae Potamochoerus majus Paratypes. Originally classified as Koiropotamus majus (Hopwood, 1934). Reclassified as Potamochoerus majus (Leakey, 1942). Yes
OVPP-L-1099 10378 22 - SC UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Box: SC. Micromammal Birds Crocs - Teeth Unknown Mammalia No
OVPP-667 10040 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower .5m above the carbonate that overlies the Tuff IA channel fill. -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/03 253 - OVPP No Aves No
OVPP-720 10093 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower Sands 4m below Tuff IA. -- Unidentified fossil in concretion. Taxonomy unknown. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/07 253 - OVPP No Y Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Antilopini? No
COP-12-127 9711 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II -- Taxonomy unknown. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/06/23 254 - COP Unknown No
COP-12-129 9713 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II -- Taxonomy unknown. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/06/23 254 - COP Unknown No
OVPP-545 9916 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower Sands about 25m below top of section. -- Not mammalian. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/06/30 253 - OVPP Yes Y No
MB.Ma.42575 9216 UK 1913 128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany -- Mfn room number: 2251. Cabinet: Vitrine P0463 / 4. Drawer: Reihe 4. Unknown Y Mammalia Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
1931 II 608 8585 UK 1913 116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany -- Small bone fragment. Reck Field No.: VII 521. May be rock not bone. 273 - Reck expedition Unknown Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
COP-12-72 9656 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Upper 5 meters below Tuff 1F. -- Taxonomy unknown. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/06/22 254 - COP Unknown No
COP-12-91 9675 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II Lowermost -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/06/22 254 - COP Unknown Reptilia No
COP-12-92 9676 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/06/22 254 - COP Unknown Reptilia No
1931 II 583 8784 UK 1913 116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany Black E. 1937. Fossil Antelopes of Olduvai. Scientific results of the Olduvai Expedition 1913:62. Distal epiphysis (juvenile). Label/publication taxon ID: Gorgon taurinus semiticus. Reck Field No.: VII 362. 273 - Reck expedition Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini Megalotragus kattwinkeli Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
P.P.R. 4 4292 UK 1941 105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. This specimen was originally listed as Damaliscus antiquus by Schwartz and Leakey. 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. 138 - E. Schwarz 264 - Leakey family expedition No Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini Damaliscus angusticornis This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Parmularius angusticornis. No
OVPP-204 7882 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II Middle On carbonate nodules. -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/07/06 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae No
OVPP-214 7892 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II Middle -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/07/06 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae No
OVPP-L-33 4000 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- Specimen label: OLD-88-217-16-5. Box #: OLD881-E. 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/6/29 Unknown Mammalia No
OVPP-L-40 4007 UK 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- Specimen label: OLD-88-217-20-5. Box #: OLD881-E. 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/6/29 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae No