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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 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
	OH 14	3729	27 - MNK	287 - 88 "Skull Site"	CRA-f , FRO-f , R-PAR-f	1963	122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	II	Lower Middle B	Surface. Inferred as same horizon as OH 13 (Leakey MD, 1971).	Leakey, L.S.B., Tobias, P.V. & Napier, J.R. 1964. A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge. Nature 202(4927): 7-9.	Juvenile (sutures unfused). Thin skull. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 11 pieces found at House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.	130 - L.S.B. Leakey		264 - Leakey family expedition	No		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Hominoidea	Hominidae						Juvenile, parietal is thin.	No
	OH 36	3751	22 - SC		ULNA	1970	122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	II	Upper	Tuff IID	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.	Almost complete. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya.	142 - M. D. Leakey		264 - Leakey family expedition	Yes		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Hominoidea	Hominidae	Homininae	Hominini	Homo	erectus			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
	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