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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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1334 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
OVPP-665 10038 L-MAN-f 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower At carbonate that overlies Tuff IA channel fill. -- Left mandible fragment. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/03 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphini No
OVPP-666 10039 L-M-f, P, M 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower Sandy clays just below carbonate that overlies Tuff IA channel fill. -- Left mandible with P4-M3. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/03 253 - OVPP Yes Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OVPP-734 10107 L-MAN-f, L-P, L-M 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower 1M above Tuff IA. -- Left mandible with P3-M3. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/07 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Antilopini No
OVPP-737 10110 L-MAX-f, L-P, L-M 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower Eroded onto lag just below Tuff IA. -- Left maxilla fragment with P4-M3. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/07 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae No
OVPP-742 10115 L-I 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower Tuff 1A. -- Left maxillary I2. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/07 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae No
OVPP-759 10133 L-MAN-f, L-M 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower Below Tuff IA. -- Left mandible fragment with broken M1 and complete M2-3. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/07/07 253 - OVPP No Y Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae potamochoerus No
OLD 15802 10155 L-COR I Layer 3 Brodkorb P., Mourer-Chauviré, C. 1984. Fossil owls from early man sites of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Ostrich; Journal of African Ornithology 55:17-27. HOLOTYPE. "Left coracoid lacking the procoracoid and the external distal angle... Paratypes: The following specimens are from layer 3 of locality FLK NNI and can be attributed to the same individual as the holotype: 15740, premaxillae; 3301, lower part of right coracoid. 15364 and 15473, proximal and distal parts of left femur; 16377, distal part of right femur; 15701, distal part of left tibiotarsus; 15776, left fibula; 16262, proximal part of right tarsometatarsus; 15730, distal part of left tarsometatarsus; 15942, 15946, 16050, 16171, 16174, 16176 to 16180, pedal phalanges. Place of conservation of the material: The fossils are currently on deposit at the University of Florida, Department of Zoology, and will later be returned to Tanzania" (Brodkorb and Mourer-Chauvire, 1984:17, 19). Image notes: (Scale = 2 cm) A-B: Left coracoid, holotype, OLD 15802, FLK NNI, layer 3, A anterior face, B posterior face. C: Right tarsometatarsus, proximal part, paratype, OLD 16262, FLK NNI, scree, anterior face. D: Left tarsometatarsus, distal part, paratype, OLD 15730, FLK NNI, layer 3, anterior face. E-F: Left femur, proximal half, paratype, OLD 15364, FLK NNI, layer 2+3, E anterior face, F POSterior face. G-H: Left femur, distal part, paratype, OLD 15473, FLK NNI, layer 3, G anterior face, H posterior face. I: Left tarsometatarsus, almost complete, OLD 11574, FLK NI, layer 1, anterior face. J-K: Left femur, lacking the distal part, OLD 11586, FLK NI, layer 2, J anterior face, K posterior face. Unknown Aves Strigiformes Strigidae Bubo leakeyae No
OLD-1200 11471 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1200; left humerus distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1202 11473 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1202; left humerus distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1203 11474 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1203; left humerus proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1204 11475 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1204; left humerus distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1205 11476 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1205; left humerus distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1208 11479 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1208; left humerus shaft end fragment and left humerus proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1210 11481 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1210; left humerus distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1211 11482 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1211; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1217 11488 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1217; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1218 11489 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1218; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1222 11493 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1222; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1224 11495 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1224; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1226 11497 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1226; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1228 11499 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1228; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1229 11500 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1229; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1231 11502 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1231; left radius proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1235 11506 L-RAD-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1235; left radius distal end fragment; Taxonomy notes "Alcelaphini radii' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1370 11627 L-SCP-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1370 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1375 11632 L-MTT-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1375; left metatarsal shaft and proximal end fragments Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1378 11635 L-TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1378; left tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae No
OLD-1380 11636 L-TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1380; left tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1381 11637 L-TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1381; left tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1382 11638 L-TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1382; left tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
M 103990 11851 L-HOR-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-273 Unknown Mammalia Insectivora Ruminantia Bovoidea Macroscelididae Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini Beatragus antiquus Yes
OLD-609 11964 CAL-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-609; in Rhino drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Yes
OLD-1191 11999 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1191; left humerus distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1193 12001 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1193; left humerus proximal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1196 12003 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1196; left humerus distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1198 12004 L-HUM-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1198; left humerus distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini humeri' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
M 104233 12020 L-SCP-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1183 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-879 12254 CAL-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Bed III -- OLD-879 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
M 103993 12325 L-HOR-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-753; left horncore distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini Beatragus antiquus Yes
OLD-681 12342 CAL-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-681 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes