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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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255 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-1597 12044 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1597; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1598 12045 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1598; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1599 12046 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1599; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1600 12047 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1600; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1601 12048 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1601; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1602 12049 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1602; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1603 12050 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1603; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1604 12051 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1604; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1605 12052 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1605; in 'Alcelaphini drawer' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-102 12208 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-102; found in drawer with note saying 'Sivatherium astragali' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Giraffidae Yes
OLD-1497 12225 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK Bed IV Surface -- OLD-1497 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-893 12245 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-893 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-892 12246 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-892 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-891 12247 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-891 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-890 12248 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-890 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-889 12249 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-889 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-888 12250 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-888 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-887 12251 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-887 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-885 12252 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-885 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-884 12253 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-884 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-874 12257 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-874 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-870 12260 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-870 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-868 12290 AST 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-868 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OH 8 3723 6 - FLK NN 283 - 45 PHX , CAR , TAR , CLA , AST , CAL , CUNE , CUB , NAV , M-f 1960 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 3 Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. The molar-f was found on the surface and "probably also belongs to OH 8" (Leakey MD, 1971:228). Twelve associated foot bones including astragalus (has carnivore tooth marks (Leakey MD, 1971), calcaneus, cuboid and navicular, cuneiforms 1- 3, proximal ends with shafts, five metatarsals. Proximal ends of one metacarpal and three finger phalanges. One radius shaft. Clavicle with damaged articular ends. Foot articulates "almost perfectly with the OH 35 leg" (Susman, 1983:372). 130 - L.S.B. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis Paratype No
067/3979 DK IC 8223 24 - DK L-AST 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I C? Surface -- Left astragulus. Card in bag with specimen states "LOC: OLDUVAI, OLD `62". Pleistocene. 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OVPP-Canis 1 3889 7 - FLK North AST, CAL, MTP I Zinjanthropus 3 Petter, G. 1973. Carnivores Pleistocenes du ravin d’Olduvai (Tanzanie). Fossil vertebrates of Africa 3:43-100. Author does not specify number of each element or whether any of the specimens are from the same individual. Unknown Mammalia Carnivora Caniformia Cynoidea Canidae Canis mesomelas latirostris No
OVPP-122 7802 AST 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II Upper Just below Tuff at top of Bed II. -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/6/30 253 - OVPP No Y Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae No
OVPP-206 7884 AST 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II Middle -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/07/06 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae No
OVPP-L-73 4041 AST 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/6/30 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae No
OVPP-L-75 4043 AST 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/6/30 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae No
OVPP-70 7748 AST 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I From sandstone somewhere above where it was collected, likely from top of section where there is Masek/Ndutu/Naisiusiu. -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/6/29 253 - OVPP No Y Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae No
OVPP-87 7766 AST 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I Sandy clays five meters below Tuff 1F. -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/6/29 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae No
OVPP-225 7903 AST 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania II Middle -- 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/07/06 253 - OVPP No Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae No
OVPP-286 7964 AST 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania III -- Astragalus 157 - L. Hlusko 2012/07/08 253 - OVPP No Y Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae No
MB.Ma.25182 9203 AST 128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany -- Mfn room number: 2251. Cabinet: P0449-4. Drawer: 41. Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Equini Equus Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
RHNM068/5794 9386 AST 129 - National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (RMNH) -- 159 - R. Bernor Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Hipparionini Eurygnathohippus Inventoried by Ray Bernor. Identified by Bernor as genus Eurygnathohippus. No
RHNM170 9387 AST 129 - National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (RMNH) -- 159 - R. Bernor Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Hipparionini Eurygnathohippus Inventoried by Ray Bernor. Identified by Bernor as genus Eurygnathohippus. No
RHNM632 9388 AST 129 - National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (RMNH) -- 159 - R. Bernor Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Hipparionini Eurygnathohippus Inventoried by Ray Bernor. Identified by Bernor as genus Eurygnathohippus. No
RHNMNoNumb1 9389 AST 129 - National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (RMNH) -- 159 - R. Bernor Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Hipparionini Eurygnathohippus Inventoried by Ray Bernor. Identified by Bernor as genus Eurygnathohippus. No
RHNMNoNumb2 9390 AST 129 - National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (RMNH) -- 159 - R. Bernor Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Hipparionini Eurygnathohippus Inventoried by Ray Bernor. Identified by Bernor as genus Eurygnathohippus. No