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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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2823 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
OH 54 3769 72 - FLK Maiko Gully M-f 1969 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I Surface. -- Half of lower M1 or M2. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae No
OH 55 3770 78 - FLK S M-f 1976 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I Surface. -- Weathered crown of molar. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis No
OH 67 3782 14 - HWK E M-f 2001 127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania II Lowermost Surface. Upper adult fragment. Specimen is pictured on top right in image 1. No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homo or Australopithecus No
OVPP-L-91 4059 M-f 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/07/06 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Hippopotamoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-982 11804 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-982 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-936 11822 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-936 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-955 11829 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-955 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-968 11835 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-968 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-975 11838 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-975; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-269 11848 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Bed II -- OLD-269 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
M 104186 11940 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-518 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphini Yes
OLD-612 11966 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-612 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-867 12291 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-867; in concretion Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-830 12308 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-830 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
M. 61205 12380 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Current location 16D; drawer 17 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae No
M. 61207 12381 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Current location 16D; drawer 17 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae No
M. 61208 12382 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Current location 16D; drawer 17 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae No
M. 61210 12384 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Current location 16D; drawer 17 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae No
M. 61212 12386 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Current location 16D; drawer 17 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae No
M. 61213 12387 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Current location 16D; drawer 17 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae No
M. 14715 12390 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Current location 17E; drawer 7 Unknown Mammalia Proboscidea Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Elephantidae No
OLD-11 12401 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK I or II Current location 17E; drawer 5; "OLDY BRK I or II?" Unknown Mammalia Proboscidea Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Elephantidae No
OLD-113 12405 23 - TK M-f 17 March 1935 114 - Natural History Museum UK III -- OLD-113; "Oldoway TK III S with jaw 17/3/35" Unknown Mammalia Proboscidea Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Elephantidae No
OLD-118 12408 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-118; box says "fossils in flint"; fossil says "for repair"; "II" scratched into concretion Unknown Mammalia Proboscidea Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Elephantidae Yes
OLD-12 12411 24 - DK M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK I Current location 17E; drawer 5 Unknown Mammalia Proboscidea Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Elephantidae No
OLD-120 12412 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-120 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae No
OLD-121 12413 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-121 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae No
OLD-122 12414 M-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-122 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae No
M. 104103 13007 M-f (2) 114 - Natural History Museum UK I -- Molar fragments (2); OLD-1125; (Last edit SC 2019) Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini Unknown
OLD-1093 13322 M-f (2) 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1093 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini No
OLD-13 12421 M-f (3) 114 - Natural History Museum UK I Current location 17E; drawer 5; all numbered the same but fragments may not be from same molar; "I '31" Unknown Mammalia Proboscidea Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Elephantidae No
OLD-788 12889 313 - GRK M, MAX-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK II -- OLD-788; "Oldoway GRK II 15/7/35" Unknown M with adhering MAX-f Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-808 12905 M, MAX-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-808 Unknown molar with adhering max-f Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-844 12929 M, MAX-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-844 Unknown M with adhering MAX-f Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OVPP-Erinaceus 43 1986 7 - FLK North MAN, I-f, P, M 104 - Unknown I upper '123' Butler, P., and Greenwood, M. 1973. The early Pleistocene hedgehogs from Olduvai, Tanzania. Fossil vertebrates of Africa 3:7-42. 150 - Butler and Greenwood Unknown Mammalia Insectivora Erinaceoidea Erinaceidae Erinaceinae Erinaceus broomi No
OVPP-582 9955 MAN, M-f 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Lower Claystones, 4m above Tuff IB. -- Two pieces - A and B. 157 - L. Hlusko 2013/06/30 253 - OVPP No Y Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae No
OVPP-Protocyon 1 87 6 - FLK NN MAN, RAM-f, L-P, L-M 104 - Unknown I middle 3 Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 133 - L. Werdelin 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Carnivora Caniformia Cynoidea Canidae Prototocyon recki No
OH 7 3722 6 - FLK NN 283 - 45 MAN , L-PAR , R-PAR-f , M , OCC-f , L/R-TEM-f , PHX , CAR 1960 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 3 On surface of clay immediately overlying Tuff IB. Leakey, L.S.B., Tobias, P.V. & Napier, J.R. 1964. A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge. Nature 202(4927): 7-9. Holotype. "Jonny's Child". Juvenile. Mandible with partial dentition and unerupted R/L-M3, almost complete left parietal and fragments of right parietal, left and right petrous portions (temporal) , "sundry small skull fragments ... [and] twenty-one bones of the hand, including the trapezium, scaphoid and a number of phalanges" (Leakey, MD, 1971:228). "One upper molar, a terminal phalanx, and a broken capitate bone, found on the surface, probably also belong to this individual" (:226). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis Holotype No
OH 13 3728 27 - MNK 287 - 88 "Skull Site" MAN , MAX , CRA-f 1963 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II Lower Middle IIB 5 feet above chert horizon Paratpye. "This consists of a sub-adult skull, probably female, with the third molars coming into wear. It is represented by the greater part of the mandible, including the complete dentition, although the crowns of the incisors are damaged and the left ascending ram us is not preserved; the greater part of the maxillae, represented by two fragments both lacking the anterior portions; the greater part of the occipital; the right parietal and temporal; parts of the left parietal and temporal; together with a few frontal fragments and approximately fifty additional pieces which it has not been possible to fit together" (Leakey MD, 1971:231). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 5 pieces found at House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 130 - L.S.B. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis Paratype No
OVPP-Erinaceus 64 8309 7 - FLK North MAN-f, (n=, 55), M 104 - Unknown I Upper All Butler, P., and Greenwood, M. 1973. The early Pleistocene hedgehogs from Olduvai, Tanzania. Fossil vertebrates of Africa 3:7-42. The author mentions 55 mandibles with associated molars. 150 - Butler and Greenwood Unknown Mammalia Insectivora Erinaceoidea Erinaceidae Erinaceinae Erinaceus broomi No