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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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645 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-1279 11551 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1279; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1280 11552 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1280; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1281 11553 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1281; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1282 11554 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1282; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1283 11555 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1283; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1284 11556 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1284; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1285 11557 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1285; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1286 11558 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1286; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1287 11559 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1287; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1288 11560 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1288; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1289 11561 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1289; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1290 11562 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1290; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1291 11563 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1291; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1292 11564 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1292; tibia distal end fragment; drawer says 'Alcelaphini tibiae' Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1366 11622 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1366; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1367 11623 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1367; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1374 11631 R-TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1374; notes "in two pieces"; right tibia juvenile fragment 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
OLD-1383 11639 R-TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1383; right tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1385 11640 R-TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1385; right tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
MNK II 167 1167 27 - MNK TIB 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 Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini This specimen is probably of Parmularius angusticornis or Damaliscus niro. It could also be from Connochaetes. No
JK 2 GP8 III GN 22 1168 46 - JK 2 TIB 104 - Unknown 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. 137 - A. Gentry Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini This specimen is probably of Parmularius angusticornis or Damaliscus niro. It could also be from Connochaetes. No
OLD-1489 11723 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1489; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1490 11724 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1490; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-206 11785 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-206 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
M. 21461 118 13 - RK CRA, R/L-HOR, R-I, R-P, R-M 1931 106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) 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 plates 38 and 39. 130 - L.S.B. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Bovinae Strepsicerotini Strepsiceros grandis Holotype. Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Tragelaphus strepsiceros grandis. No
BK II Ext 1953.067/5363 1180 10 - BK TIB 1953 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 is from the same specimen as BK II Ext 1953.067/5364 and 5506. 137 - A. Gentry Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini This specimen is probably of Parmularius angusticornis or Damaliscus niro. It could also be from Connochaetes. No
OLD-916 11814 I 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-916 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
OLD-918 11816 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-918; tibia distal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-925 11820 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-925 Unknown Yes
OLD-945 11823 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-945; tibia proximal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
M 103942 11833 I 1935 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-964 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Equini Equus Yes
OLD-25 11846 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-25; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Giraffidae Yes
OLD-325 11872 I 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-325 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Suidae Yes
BK II 1957.1261 1190 10 - BK TIB 1957 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 Alcelaphinae Alcelaphini Indet. This specimen is from a smaller alcelaphine than Parmularius angusticornis or Damaliscus niro. No
OLD-1927 11910 LIMB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1927 Unknown Mammalia Yes
OLD-1926 11911 LIMB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1926 Unknown Mammalia Yes