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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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254 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-1818 12192 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1818; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1820 12193 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1820; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1494 12222 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Bed IV Surface -- OLD-1494; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1495 12223 TIB-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK Bed IV Surface -- OLD-1495; tibia distal end fragment Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-896 12242 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-896; tibia proximal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-894 12244 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-894; tibia distal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-904 12287 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-904; immature tibia proximal end; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-731 12331 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-731; tibia proximal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-71 12337 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-71; tibia distal end Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae Yes
UCMP 42010 12371 TIB-f 1948 276 - University of California Museum of Paleontology Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
UCMP 42063 12376 TIB-f 1948 276 - University of California Museum of Paleontology Bed 1 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-181 12472 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK II -- OLD-181; "tibia, almost complete, missing prox articulation" Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-182 12473 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-182; tiba, distal end; Colld Miss D.M.A. Bate & Dr. K.P. Oakley, presd April, 1947 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-26 12523 9 - THC TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK I -- OLD-26; distal end of tibia Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-27 12530 69 - GRK S TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK II -- OLD-27; distal end of tibia Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-28 12534 314 - THC S TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK I -- OLD-28; distal end of tibia Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-29 12539 316 - VEK S TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-29; distal end of tibia; immature Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-30 12545 317 - MRK S TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK II -- OLD-30; distal end of tibia; immature, epiphysis, sediment adhering Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-31 12549 69 - GRK S TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK II -- OLD-31; distal end of tibia; immature Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-7 12807 RIB-f, M, MAX-f, TOOTH, TIB (7 total) 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-7; not fossilized; micro mammal; distal articular end of tibia is preserved Unknown Yes
OH 6 3721 5 - FLK 283 - 45 CRA-f , M-f , L-P , L-TIB-f , L-FIB-f , 1959/60 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I Middle (Zinj.) Surface. Cranial and dental fragments found in surface soil from slope immediately below Zinj. site; assumed to be from Zinj. level (Leakey, MD, 1971:227). TIB-f and FIB-f from Zinj. level. Davis, P. R. 1964. Hominid fossils from Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika. A tibia and fibula. Nature. 201, 967. From Tobias (1991): OH 35 tibia and fibula attributed to same individual as OH 6 but appear to be more mature. It is unclear if OH 35 tibia and fibula are the same tibia and fibula originally listed under OH 6. Leakey, MD, 1971 describes CRA and dental fragments as having been found in surface soil, but Leakey, Tobias, and Napier, 1964 state "some [were] found in situ [and] some on the surface" (:9). Unworn lower L-P3. Partially developed roots of upper M1 or 2. Six cranial vault fragments. Tibia and fibula fragments first assumed to be associated with Zinjanthropus OH5, but should be considered associates with OH 6 following morphological study (Leakey, MD, 1971:227). and skull fragments. Juvenile. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis Paratype. TIB-f and FIB-f not given taxonomic designation in original publication (Davis, 1964) but named as a paratype in Leakey, Tobias, and Napier, 1964. No
OH 34 3749 76 - JK W FEM , TIB-f 1962 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania III/ IV for Bed IV level = a Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Femur described as "slender" (Leakey MD, 1971) and shaft of tibia. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo sp. Slender bone No
OH 35 3750 6 - FLK NN TIB , FIB 1960 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 22 Davis, P. R. 1964. Hominid fossils from Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika. A tibia and fibula. Nature. 201, 967. Almost complete. Attributed to same individual as skull fragments and teeth of OH 6 but appear to be more mature (Tobias, 1991). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis No
OH 80 3796 10 - BK R/L-P , L-M , R/L-I , L-HUM-f , R-RAD-f , R-FEM-f , TIB-f 2009 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II 4 Upper Domínguez-Rodrigo M, et al. 2013. First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80347. Distal portion of a left humerus diaphysis. Partial right radius with head, proximal metaphysis and partial diaphysis. Right partial femur, diaphysis in three refitting pieces. Tibia midshaft fragment assigned to OH 80 based on close "spatial association, comparable anatomical ruggedness and similar state of preservation to the other OH 80 postcranial fossils" (Dominiguez-Rodrigo et al., 2013). 292 - Proyecto Olduvai Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Australopithecus boisei Anatomically modern No
OLD/62 FLK S. (Nr. FLK NI) 8194 72 - FLK Maiko Gully R-TIB-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania surface? -- Proximal end and portion of shaft of right tibia. Pleistocene. Card in bag with specimen states "LSB Leakey `62. Field No: OLD/62 068/6158 FLK(Nr FLK NI) S". 2012/08/02 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OLD 60 8413 5 - FLK FIB-f, TIB-f, UK-f 104 - Unknown I -- Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae No
OLD-206 11785 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-206 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-242 12228 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-242 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-94 12281 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-94 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-92 12285 TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-92; tibia distal end Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae Yes
OLD-90 12954 40 - JK TIB 114 - Natural History Museum UK IV -- OLD-90 Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Ceratomorpha Tapiromorpha Rhinocerotoidea Rhinocerotidae No
M. 20231 67 TIB-f 106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) II Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. No locality given. 130 - L.S.B. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Carnivora Feliformia Felidae Pantherinae Panthera crassidens The author suggests this specimen may belong to the subfamily Machairodontinae. No
M. 20230 68 TIB 106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) II Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. No locality given. 130 - L.S.B. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Carnivora Feliformia Felidae Pantherinae Panthera crassidens The author suggests this specimen may belong to the subfamily Machairodontinae. No
1311 3901 7 - FLK North R-FEM, R-TIB I 4 Petter, G. 1973. Carnivores Pleistocenes du ravin d’Olduvai (Tanzanie). Fossil vertebrates of Africa 3:43-100. Unknown Mammalia Carnivora Feliformia Herpestidae Herpestinae Ichneumia albicauda No
1311 7662 7 - FLK North R-FEM, R-TIB I 4 Petter, G. 1973. Carnivores Pleistocenes du ravin d’Olduvai (Tanzanie). Fossil vertebrates of Africa 3:43-100. Unknown Mammalia Carnivora Feliformia Herpestidae Herpestinae Ichneumia albicauda No
MB.Ma.25180 9201 TIB-f 1931 128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany Deinotherium horizont; Leakey site -- Proximal. Reck field number: IV 83d. Mfn room number: 2251. Cabinet: P0449-4. Drawer: 41. 273 - Reck expedition Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Equini Equus Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
MB.Ma.25181 9202 TIB-f 1931 128 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany -- Distal. Reck field number: III 14a. Mfn room number: 2251. Cabinet: P0449-4. Drawer: 41. 273 - Reck expedition Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Hippomorpha Equidae Equinae Equini Equus Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. No
RMNH1045 (2) 9413 TIB 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
RMNH1314 9420 TIB 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
RMNH1349 9423 TIB 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