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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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138 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-573 12730 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-573; "OLD" Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-625 12764 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-625; tooth has whole root Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-682 12798 MAX-F, TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-682; MAN-f or MAX-f with teeth Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-698 12806 MAN-f, TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-698; MAN-f with teeth Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Giraffoidea Giraffidae 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
UCMP 42076 12814 TOOTH-f 1948 276 - University of California Museum of Paleontology Unknown Mammalia Proboscidea Tethytheria Behemota Deinotheriidae Deinotherium Yes
UCMP 42080 12817 TOOTH, VER-f 1948 276 - University of California Museum of Paleontology Unknown Reptilia Crocodilia Crocodylidae Crocodylinae Yes
OLD-717 12831 MAN-f, TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-717; MAN-f with one tooth root; 7 pieces Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OLD-750 12859 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-750 Unknown in concretion Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae in Hippo drawer No
OLD-770 12875 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK I -- OLD-770 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-814 12910 MAX-f, TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-814; drawer 1; MAX-f with teeth Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Giraffoidea Giraffidae No
OLD-826 12919 MAN-f, TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-826; MAN-f with teeth Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-911 12958 I (2), TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-911; juvenile; 2 incisors and one other tooth, possibly premolar Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suina Suoidea Suidae No
M. 104108 13030 MAN-f, TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- Mandible fragments with unerupted tooth fragments; OLD-1116; (Last edit SC 2019) Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae cf. Antilopini or Aepyceros Yes
M 104164 13067 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1151; incisor or canine Unknown Mammalia Giraffidae or Equidae Yes
M 104221 13083 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK I -- OLD-1167; upper tooth Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OLD-1889 13217 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1889 Unknown Yes Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae Unknown
OLD-1903 13226 TOOTH-f (10) 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1903; assorted tooth fragments Unknown Mammalia No
OLD-1920 13234 TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1920; tooth found in drawer with OLD-1919 Unknown Mammalia No
OLD-798b 13252 TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-798b Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae No
OVPP-P-5 13280 TOOTH -- FLKNI TrIII LS 1-23 BOSE BED II 067-5035 L3-1-2. Original. Number unclear. Unknown Yes
OVPP-P-21 13297 TOOTH -- OLD 1960 FLKNI TrII L-3 067-2792 Toott Unknown Reptilia Yes
OVPP-P-24 13300 C or Crocodile TOOTH -- OLD BKIIE 1953-122 Unknown Yes
OVPP-P-28 13304 Pelvix-f, VER-f, PHX, TOOTH -- OLD-60 FLKNI L-3 067-1303 Unknown Yes
OVPP-P-30 13306 TOOTH-f -- OLD-62 DKIA L-2 790 Unknown Carnivora Yes
OLD-970 13317 TOOTH, TOOTH-f (19) 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- subfossil; Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Behemota Bovoidea Bovidae Antilopinae Antilopini No
OLD-238 12513 10 - BK MAN-f, TOOTH (1.5) 114 - Natural History Museum UK IV -- OLD-238; "OLDY BK IV 14/5/35" Unknown Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae No
OH 12 3727 18 - VEK 286 - 86 OCC , L/R-PAR , L/R-TEM-f , CRA-f , L-PAL , L-MAX , TOOTH-f 1962 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania IV? a Surface. Found on eroded slope of Bed III. L-TEM-f from just below marker Tuff IVa. Leakey, L., and Leakey, M. 1964. Recent discoveries of fossil hominids in tanganyika: at Olduvai and near Lake Natron. Nature 202:5-7. Crowns of teeth not preserved. Bed IVA determined on basis of matrix adhering to L-TEM-f and PAL. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition No L-TEM-f & PAL found with matrix adhering. Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo erectus No
OLD-278 12532 19 - SHK TOOTH-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK II -- OLD-278 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae found in Hippopotamus drawer Unknown
OLD-1345b 13255 19 - SHK TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK II -- OLD-1345b Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Ruminantia Bovoidea Bovidae No
OH 11 3726 24 - DK 285 - 13 PAL , L-MAX-f , TOOTH-f 1962 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Ndutu Lower Found in stream bed at bottom of gully near DK excavations. See curatorial notes for details. Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Left half of palate and maxillary arch, crowns of teeth not preserved. "It is thus impossible to assign to any stratigraphic level, although the condition of the bone, which bears a pinkish tinge, is similar to that seen in fossil bones from a conglomerate at the head of the DK gully belonging to the lower Ndutu Beds" (Leakey MD, 1971:230). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 154 - Leakey and Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition No Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo sp. No
OH 71 3786 24 - DK TOOTH 2003 127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania I Lower “Discovered by an Earthwatch project led by F.T. Masao in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and will be described elsewhere.” -R. Clarke (2011) Specimen is shown. Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae No
OH 72 3787 24 - DK TOOTH 2004 127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania I Lower “Discovered by an Earthwatch project led by F.T. Masao in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and will be described elsewhere.” -R. Clarke (2011) Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae No
OLD 61/2971 MPC I 8105 24 - DK TOOTH 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I -- Tooth in concretion. Canine? Needs preparation. Card in bag states "Dental fragment OLD 1961 067/2971". Pleistocene. 2012/07/26 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Y Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae No
OLD-690 12804 26 - FC TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK II -- OLD-690; "Oldoway FC II 7/5/35" Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Tethytheria Behemota Elephantoidea Hippopotamidae No
OLD-781 12882 27 - MNK TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK IV -- OLD-781; "OLDY MNK IV ? S 15/5/35" Unknown maybe MAN or MAX adhering; in concretion Mammalia Artiodactyla Suiformes Suoidea Suidae No
OVPP-L-1571 10493 297 - TK Fish Gully 15 Small fragments including fish spines, Bovidae tooth fragment, microfauna bone fragments , 126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Unknown Yes
OLD 69/S.133 DC II 8073 30 - DC MAX, TOOTH-f, CRA-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II -- Maxilla with tooth fragments and partial cranium. Enclosed card states "Glamour Boy". Very fragmentary, fragments very small. Needs preparation. Fragments of this specimen (a maxilla with M3) in bag with OLD 69/S.89 SHKE (cranium). 2012/07/25 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae Cynocephalinae Simopithecus No
OLD-611 12756 316 - VEK S L-MAN-f, TOOTH 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-611; juvenile Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Suina Suoidea Suidae No
OH 39 3754 37 - HWK EE TOOTH , d-TOOTH 1972 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I Upper In fallen block from Upper Bed I. Surface. Leakey, M.D. 1978. Olduvai fossil hominids:their stratigraphic positions and associations. In: Jolly, CJ, editor. Early hominids of Africa. London:Duckworth. P. 3-16. Upper dentitions: Partial permanent and deciduous dentition. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 142 - M. D. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis No