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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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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 3	3719	10 - BK	280 - 94	d-C , L-d-M	1955	122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	II	Upper	Upper part of BK channel which cuts into Tuff IID	Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.	In the first publication of these specimens (Leakey, LSB, 1958), Leakey described the teeth as a deciduous lower canine and a left deciduous upper M2. "This view was not shared by Robinson, von Koenigswald and others, who preferred to regard it as either a permanent or a deciduous upper molar of an australopithecine character" (Leakey, MD, 1970:226). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya.	130 - L.S.B. Leakey		264 - Leakey family expedition	Yes		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Hominoidea	Hominidae			Australopithecus			Referred to as species boisei in Tobias (Olduvai Gorge volume IV, 1991).	No
	OH 65	3780		82 - 64	MAX , TOOTH	1995	127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania	I	Middle/Upper		Blumenschine, R. J., Peters, C. R., Masao, F. T., et al. 2003. Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Science 299, 1217-1221.	Author describes specimen as "complete maxilla with all teeth and lower face of adult".Specimen is pictured in images 1-11. (Images from R. Clarke 2011).				Yes		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Hominoidea	Hominidae	Homininae	Hominini	Homo	habilis		Large habilis	No
	OH 25	3740		268 - 54	L-PAR-f	1968	122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	IV	a	Surface	Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.	Left parietal fragment ca. asterion. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya.	142 - M. D. Leakey		264 - Leakey family expedition	No		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Hominoidea	Hominidae						Juvenile.	No
	OH 62/998	8412			FEM-f, TOOTH		122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania				--	Femoral head and teeth.			264 - Leakey family expedition	Unknown		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Hominoidea	Hominidae							No
	OH 82	13063			R-ULNA			III			Hlusko, L. J., Reiner, W. B., & Njau, J. K. (2015). A one‐million‐year‐old hominid distal ulna from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. American journal of physical anthropology, 158(1), 36-42.	right distal ulna			292 - Proyecto Olduvai	Unknown		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Hominoidea	Hominidae							No