|
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 Additional pieces from NMK unpublished.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 |
|
068/5813 |
123 |
58 - KK |
|
CRA |
1959 |
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
The author indicates that specimens are common in Bed I, lower Bed II, and early in middle Bed II (Gentry and Gentry, 1978, a). The specimen # is provided by Gentry and Gentry (1978). The cranium and horn cones were found near the base of Bed 2. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Strepsicerotini |
Strepsiceros |
maryanus |
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Tragelaphus strepsiceros maryanus. |
No |
|
E-58 |
742 |
|
|
CRA |
|
111 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany(?) |
|
|
|
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 was destroyed in WWII. |
138 - E. Schwarz |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Taurotragini |
Taurotragus |
oryx |
pachyceros |
Gentry and Gentry (1978a) suggest this name should not be considered. |
No |
|
F. 3015 |
978 |
|
|
CRA |
|
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
|
|
|
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 |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
angusticornis |
|
|
No |
|
068/5854 |
979 |
|
|
CRA |
|
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
|
|
|
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 |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
angusticornis |
|
|
No |
|
Pel 1 |
1658 |
|
|
CRA |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
|
|
|
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 |
|
OH 1968 |
3797 |
40 - JK |
|
CRA |
1968 |
125 - Germany |
Ndutu |
Lower |
Surface. |
Von Zieten RRR. 2009. Preliminary report on a new Olduvai hominid from 1968: an Anatomically-Modern-Man from Upper Ndutu Bed. Retrieved from http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/ |
Anatomically modern. Complete skull. |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
sapiens |
|
Anatomically modern |
No |
|
Pel 1 |
5733 |
|
|
CRA |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
|
|
|
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 |
|
BM(NH) M21460 |
7642 |
|
|
CRA |
|
|
|
|
|
Gentry, A., Gentry, A., and Mayr, H. 1995. Rediscovery of fossil antelope holotypes (Mammalia, Bovidae) collected from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1913. Bayerische Staatssammlung fur Palaontologie und |
Skill in is Munich. Cast of holotype in Natural History Museum in London, and now duplicated in the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Antidorcas |
recki |
|
|
No |
|
OLDUVAI 1955 BK II East |
8067 |
49 - BK E |
|
CRA |
1955 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
|
|
-- |
Packed in National Museum in Nairobi, Kenya in box 188 or 189 labeled "Cercopithecidae" for transport to National Museum of History, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Calvarium with right and left zygomatics broken off. Root etching. Needs preparation. |
|
2012/07/23 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
Y |
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cynocephalinae |
|
Simopithecus |
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD 69/S.89 SHK E |
8074 |
62 - SHK E |
|
CRA |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
|
|
-- |
Cranium. Male. Specimen in bag with OLD 69/S.133 DC II (max frag. with M3). Sieving fragments in 81 I/K. |
|
2012/07/25 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cynocephalinae |
|
Simopithecus |
|
|
|
No |
|
UNLABELED SPECIMEN OLD? 8 |
8291 |
|
|
CRA |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
|
|
|
-- |
Cranium. Cast. |
|
2012/08/13 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
MB.Ma.29305 |
9205 |
|
|
CRA |
1913 |
128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany |
|
|
Horizont 3 |
-- |
Holotype. Reck field number: VIII 781. Mfn room number: 2251. Cabinet: P0448-6. Drawer: 71. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Carnivora |
Caniformia |
Cynoidea |
|
Canidae |
|
|
Otocyon |
recki |
|
Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |
|
MB.Ma.29314 |
9212 |
|
|
CRA |
1913 |
128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany |
|
|
|
-- |
Reck field number: VIII 350. Mfn room number: 2251. Cabinet: P0448-6. Drawer: 71. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Carnivora |
Caniformia |
Cynoidea |
|
Canidae |
|
|
Canis |
adustus |
|
Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |
|
? |
9220 |
|
|
CRA |
|
128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany |
|
|
|
-- |
Holotype. Reck field number: XX 1475?. Mfn room number: Outside 2251. Cabinet: Vitrine. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Hippopotamoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
Hippopotaminae |
|
Hippopotamus |
gorgops |
|
Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |
|
OVPP-477 |
9848 |
|
|
CRA |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
II |
Upper |
|
-- |
|
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/26 |
253 - OVPP |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-107 |
12399 |
|
|
CRA |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-107; 1 cranium with many fragments |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Ceratomorpha |
Tapiromorpha |
Rhinocerotoidea |
Rhinocerotidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD 61/2972 MPC I KNM 2.62 |
8079 |
|
|
CRA-f, FRO |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
|
-- |
Cranial fragment,R? frontal bone pars orbitalis with sutures. |
|
2012/07/25 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
M. 14514 |
165 |
|
|
CRA-f, 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. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 71. |
293 - A.T. Hopwood |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
altidens |
|
|
No |
|
HWK I 1962.068/6650 |
936 |
11 - HWK |
|
CRA-f, HOR |
1962 |
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 specimen is pictured in plate 20, figure 1. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
altidens |
|
|
No |
|
F. 3001 P.P.F. 5 |
175 |
|
|
CRA-f, HOR-f |
1941 |
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
II |
upper |
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 77. 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 |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
angusticornis |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Parmularius sp. indet. |
No |
|
OVPP-543 |
9914 |
|
|
CRA-f, HOR-f |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
I |
Lower |
1/2m above Tuff IA. 5m above OVPP-542, just below tuff with vesicles, reworked, little pebbles. |
-- |
Needs prep. Partial cranium with horn cores. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/30 |
253 - OVPP |
Yes |
Y |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
UNLABELED SPECIMEN OLD? 1 |
8166 |
|
|
CRA-f, I, M, TOOTH-f |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
|
|
|
-- |
Unlabeled cranial and dental fragments including incisor and third molar. Label on box containing fragments states "Simopithecus skull fragments etc". |
|
2012/07/31 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cynocephalinae |
|
Simopithecus |
|
|
|
No |
|
F. 3662 068/5812 P.P.T.2 |
138 |
|
|
CRA-f, L-HOR, R-HOR-f |
|
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
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 56 and 58. The adhering matrix suggests this specimen must come from above the Lemuta member. 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 |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
gigas |
|
Holotype |
No |
|
M. 14948 |
126 |
|
|
CRA-f, L-HOR-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
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 |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Bularchus |
arok |
|
Paratype - Gentry and Gentry (1978a) renamed this specimen as P. oldowayensis. |
No |
|
1931 II 1295 |
8536 |
|
|
CRA-f, L-TEM |
1913 |
116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany |
|
|
|
-- |
Dozens of cranial frags, incl. L temporal. Label/publication taxon ID: Gorgon taurinus semiticus. Reck Field No.: VI 306. Note that VI 306 was given as a field number for both the Thaleroceros specimen 1931 II 101 and the horn core that attaches to the skull of Megalotragus 1931 II 666. Strange because this may be the only case of a duplicated field number for 2 such different specimens. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Megalotragus |
kattwinkeli |
|
Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |
|
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. 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 |
|
OVPP-576 |
9949 |
|
|
CRA-f, L/R-M |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
I |
Lower |
Right on top of ignimbrite. |
-- |
Partial cranium with left M1-2 and right M1-3. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/06/30 |
253 - OVPP |
Yes |
Y |
Mammalia |
Proboscidea |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
|
Deinotheriidae |
|
|
Deinotherium |
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Otomys 4 |
3858 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
CRA-f, M, (n=3) |
|
|
I |
3 |
|
Denys, C. 1989. Phylogenetic affinities of the oldest East African Otomys (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Olduvai Bed I (Pleistocene, Tanzania). Neues Jahrbuch f |
Cranium has left and right upper M123. |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Rodentia |
Myomorpha |
Myodonta |
Muroidea |
Muridae |
Murinae |
Otomyini |
Otomys |
petteri |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Tatera 4 |
3964 |
7 - FLK North |
|
CRA-f, M |
|
|
I |
1 |
|
Denys, C. 1989. Two new gerbillids (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Olduvai Bed I (Pleistocene, Tanzania). Neues Jahrbuch f |
Specimen is described as the "anterior skull fragment with the left and right upper molar rows" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Rodentia |
Myomorpha |
Myodonta |
Muroidea |
Muridae |
Gerbillinae |
Taterillini |
Tatera |
gentryi |
|
Holotype |
No |
|
1011 |
3119 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
CRA-f, MAN-f |
1961 |
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
Leakey, M., and Leakey, R. 1976. Further Cercopithecinae (Mammalia, Primates) from the Plio/Pleistocene of East Africa. Fossil vertebrates of Africa 4:121-146. |
This specimen is crushed. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cercopithecinae |
Papionini |
Papio |
sp. |
|
|
No |
|
S. 61 |
3120 |
23 - TK |
|
CRA-f, MAN-f |
1961 |
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
Leakey, M., and Leakey, R. 1976. Further Cercopithecinae (Mammalia, Primates) from the Plio/Pleistocene of East Africa. Fossil vertebrates of Africa 4:121-146. |
This specimen is crushed. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cercopithecinae |
Papionini |
Papio |
sp. |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-769 |
10143 |
|
|
CRA-f, MAX-f, M, HOR |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
I |
Lower |
2 meters below Tuff IA. |
-- |
Partial cranium with two horn cores and maxilla fragment with molar. In sediment. Needs prep. Found with OVPP-499. Five pieces- A, B, C, D, and E. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2013/07/07 |
253 - OVPP |
No |
Y |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
Antilopini |
|
|
|
|
No |
|
S.89 |
8080 |
|
|
CRA-f, MAX-f, R-P, R-M, OCC-f, UK |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
|
|
|
-- |
Cigar box with cranial and maxilla fragments labeled |A.1-21; KNM-B 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98". Fragments in cigar box probably from same individual as OLD69/S.89. Many fragments in bags (unidentified) and one small plastic box appear to be sieving fragments; note with OLD69/S.89 states "sieving frags. in 81I/K".Cranial fragments in cigar box include maxillary fragments, one fragment with RM3, one fragment with RP3-4 and M1. Buccal side of RP4 crown missing (broken off) and mesiobuccal portion of RM1 not present (broken off). Occipital fragments also in cigar box. Needs preparation.Probably same specimen as OLD69/S.89 but in different bag. |
|
2012/07/25 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
MLK 068/6514 |
3803 |
34 - MLK |
|
CRA-f, P, M, (n=3) |
|
|
II |
Lower |
From horizon above Lemuta Member of Lowed Bed II |
Leakey MG and Leakey REF. 1973. New large Pleistocene colobinae (Mammalia, Primates) from East Africa. Fossil Vertebrates of Africa Vol. 3, 121-38. |
Similar to colobine specimen KNM-ER 398 in cranial dimensions. Maxillary dentition represented by P4, M2, M1, M2. Crania is represented by multiple fragments, and some fragments are missing. Large canine socket of right maxilla indicates specimen is male. Specimen is pictured in Plate 3. |
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264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
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Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
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Either Cercopithecinae or Cynopithencinae. Author states that the cranium is typical of Cercopithecinae but that the dental morphology resembles Cynopithecinae. |
No |
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MLK 068/6514 |
7564 |
34 - MLK |
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CRA-f, P, M, (n=3) |
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II |
Lower |
From horizon above Lemuta Member of Lowed Bed II |
Leakey MG and Leakey REF. 1973. New large Pleistocene colobinae (Mammalia, Primates) from East Africa. Fossil Vertebrates of Africa Vol. 3, 121-38. |
Similar to colobine specimen KNM-ER 398 in cranial dimensions. Maxillary dentition represented by P4, M2, M1, M2. Crania is represented by multiple fragments, and some fragments are missing. Large canine socket of right maxilla indicates specimen is male. Specimen is pictured in Plate 3. |
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264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
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Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
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Either Cercopithecinae or Cynopithencinae. Author states that the cranium is typical of Cercopithecinae but that the dental morphology resembles Cynopithecinae. |
No |
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S. 196 |
3116 |
24 - DK |
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CRA-f, P, M, C |
1969 |
104 - Unknown |
I |
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Leakey, M., and Leakey, R. 1976. Further Cercopithecinae (Mammalia, Primates) from the Plio/Pleistocene of East Africa. Fossil vertebrates of Africa 4:121-146. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 1. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
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264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
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Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cercopithecinae |
Papionini |
Papio |
ap. |
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No |
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M. 21451 |
128 |
18 - VEK |
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CRA-f, R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
III, IV |
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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 |
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264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
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Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
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Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Gorgon |
olduvaiensis |
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Holotype - Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Connochaetes taurinus olduvaiensis. |
No |
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1931 II 1111 |
8532 |
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CRA-f, R-HOR-f |
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116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany |
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Black E. 1937. Fossil Antelopes of Olduvai. Scientific results of the Olduvai Expedition 1913:33. |
Cranium lacking face with braincase and much of right HOR. Label/publication taxon ID: Taurotragus oryx pachyceros. Reck Field No.: E 58. Holotype specimen of Taurotragus oryx pachyceros, which is a synonym of the living Taurotragus oryx (Gentry, 1995). Tribe may be Tragelaphini. |
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273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
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Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
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Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Taurotragini |
Taurotragus |
oryx |
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Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |