|
OVPP-Bularchus 1 |
127 |
10 - BK |
|
SKULL, MAX, CRA, HOR |
|
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Several specimens including crania and post-cranial elements have been found in BK II. One example is pictured in plate 48. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Bularchus |
arok |
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978a) renamed this specimen as P. oldowayensis. |
No |
|
M. 14689 |
164 |
11 - HWK |
|
SKULL, MAN |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
upper |
|
Hopwood, A. 1934. New fossil mammals from Olduvai, Tanganyika territory. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 10: 546-550. |
This holotype is pictured in plate 70. It was excavated 15 ft. below upper Bed 1 in a "tuffaceous deposit." It was found near the mouth of HWK. |
293 - A.T. Hopwood |
|
|
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
altidens |
|
Holotype |
No |
|
M. 21430 |
174 |
21 - HWK Castle |
|
SKULL, R-HOR-f |
1932 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
Base of Bed IV. |
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plates 75 and 76. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
rugosus |
|
Holotype |
No |
|
M. 14688 |
215 |
|
|
SKULL, L-HOR, M, P |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
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 93 and 94. It was found in the 1931-1932 field season. The locality was not provided. |
293 - A.T. Hopwood |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
"pebbly and consolidated sandy matrix of dark colour" |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Caprinae |
Caprini |
Pultiphagonides |
africanus |
|
Holotype - This specimen was reclassified as Connochaetes africanus by Gentry and Gentry (1978). |
No |
|
P.P.F. 8 |
216 |
10 - BK |
|
SKULL, L/R-HOR |
1952 |
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 plate 95. It was excavated between 1952 and 1957. 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 |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Pelorovis |
oldowayensis |
|
|
No |
|
MNK II 1963.104 + 106 |
645 |
32 - MNK Main |
|
SKULL, SKEL-f |
|
104 - Unknown |
II |
middle |
|
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Gentry and Gentry (1978a) assigned this specimen to the species level (kob). They give the specimen numbers as follows:skull: 104, 106mandibles: 107 (R), 108 (L)Maxilla: 103 (R)Altas: 110Metacarpal: 105 (R)Ulna: 109 (R)Femur: 101 (R)Tibia: 102 (R)Metatarsal: 100 (R) |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
|
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978) assigned this to the species Kobus kob. |
No |
|
OVPP-Tragelaphus |
737 |
|
|
SKULL, HOR |
|
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 lost in WWII. |
138 - E. Schwarz |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Tragelaphini |
Tragelaphus |
spekei |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Pelorovis 82 |
745 |
19 - SHK |
|
SKULL |
|
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. |
This specimen is mentioned in Gentry (1967). |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Pelorovis |
oldowayensis |
|
|
No |
|
BK II 1957 |
1309 |
10 - BK |
|
SKULL |
1957 |
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
Jolly, C. J. 1972. The classification and natural history of Theropithecus (Simopithecus)(Andrews, 1916), baboons of the African Plio-Pleistocene: British Museum (Natural History) |
This specimen is pictured in plate 17a. |
146 - C. J. Jolly |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cercopithecinae |
Papionini |
Theropithecus |
oswaldi |
subsp. |
|
No |
|
FLK NN I 296 |
779 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
R-SKULL |
|
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. |
The right half of a skull is crushed and from an immature individual. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
sigmoidalis |
|
|
No |
|
S. 202 |
783 |
|
96 - 63 |
SKULL, P, M, I |
1970 |
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 nearly complete skull with dentition is pictured in plate 6. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
sigmoidalis |
|
This specimen may belong to the species K. ellipsiprymnus. |
No |
|
TK II 067/5310 |
835 |
23 - TK |
|
SKULL-f |
|
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 |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
gigas |
|
|
No |
|
VFK III-IV 350 |
1067 |
44 - VFK |
|
SKULL, L/R-HOR, MAN, MAX |
|
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
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 29, figure 2. 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 |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
agelaius |
|
Holotype |
No |
|
FLK W 1969.82a |
1070 |
55 - FLK W |
|
CRA, R/L-HOR, SKULL, VER |
1969 |
104 - Unknown |
|
|
Above Tuff IF below the Sandy Conglomerate |
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. |
The skull is a crushed cranium with horn cores. This is a skeleton found in association with several antilopine bones that the authors mention but do not provide specimens for. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
|
No |
|
VFK III-IV 150 |
1076 |
44 - VFK |
|
SKULL, HOR, M, P |
|
104 - Unknown |
III, IV |
|
|
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 one of several of a herd found in undivided beds III-IV. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
agelaius |
|
|
No |
|
VFK III-IV 363 |
1078 |
44 - VFK |
|
SKULL, HOR |
|
104 - Unknown |
III, IV |
|
|
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 one of several of a herd found in undivided beds III-IV. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
agelaius |
|
|
No |
|
1963.068/5976 |
1098 |
|
|
SKULL-f |
1963 |
104 - Unknown |
IV |
upper |
Masek Beds |
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 found in upper Bed IV or the Masek Beds. It is pictured in plate 35, figure 2. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Indet. |
|
|
This specimen has some resemblance to Parmularius. |
No |
|
M. 18772 |
1308 |
10 - BK |
|
SKULL |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Jolly, C. J. 1972. The classification and natural history of Theropithecus (Simopithecus)(Andrews, 1916), baboons of the African Plio-Pleistocene: British Museum (Natural History) |
This specimen is pictured in plate 14.a. |
146 - C. J. Jolly |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cercopithecinae |
Papionini |
Theropithecus |
oswaldi |
subsp. |
|
No |