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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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1690 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-337 11873 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-337 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Giraffidae Yes
OLD-340 11874 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-340; metapodial distal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Giraffidae Yes
OLD-345 11876 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-345; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-373 11879 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-373; metapodial distal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Giraffidae Yes
OLD-376 11881 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-376; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-377 11882 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-377; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-378 11883 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-378; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-379 11884 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-379; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-886 11893 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-886 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-174 11904 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-174; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-1875 11907 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1875; phalanx intermediate Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1879 11909 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1879; phalanx intermediate Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae Yes
OLD-1925 11912 PVG-f 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-1925; pelvis fragment with obturator foramen Unknown Mammalia Yes
OLD-89 11917 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-89 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-390 11922 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-390 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-391 11923 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-391; metapodial distal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Giraffidae Yes
OLD-392 11924 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-392 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-393 11925 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-393 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-395 11926 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-395 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-398 11928 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-398 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-401 11929 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-401; found in hippopotamus drawer Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-546 11947 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-546 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-549 11949 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-549; metapodial proximal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-550 11950 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-550 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-554 11951 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-554; metapodial distal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Giraffidae Yes
OLD-572 11954 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-572 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-585 11957 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-585; phalanx intermediate Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-600 11961 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-600; metapodial proximal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Giraffidae Yes
MNK II I/1 8239 27 - MNK PHX-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania II 1 -- Proximal phalanx. Card in bag with specimen states "Prox phal foot. Monkey". 2012/08/06 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
DK I 5197 L/1 8243 24 - DK MTP 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 1 -- Metapodial. Card in bag with specimen states "OLD 63 DK I L/2 Strip I 86,117, 5196-7 Cynocephalinae." Other card in bag states (written in pen) "Not weathered metapodials (indet.)) Field no. OLD 63 DK I L/2 Strip 86, 117, 5196-7." Card also has statement written in pencil by Paul F. Whitehead (possibly written at later date) stating "2 Proximals are metacarpals; 1 proximal is metacarpal; can't I.D. distal (P.W.)". Specimen found in bag with DK I ?17 (Metacarpal) and OLD/63 DK I 86 (Metatarsal). 2012/08/06 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
2953/DK I 8076 24 - DK P 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2 Strip III -- Upper premolar. Buccal roots missing. Very worn. Card in bag states "OLD '63 DK I Strip III L/2". Pleistocene. 2012/07/25 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae Cynocephalinae No
OLD 62/1101 DK 1A L/2 8085 24 - DK L-P 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2 -- Left lower PM4. Cynocephalinae? Enlcosed note with specimen states "OLD '62 DK 1A 1101". Pleistocene. 2012/07/26 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae No
OLD 63/158 DK I KNM 2.063 8101 24 - DK PHX 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2 Strip I -- Phalanx. 2012/07/26 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae No
OLD 62/283 DK IB L/2 8103 24 - DK L-MAN-f, P, M 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2 -- Left mandible fragment with lower P3 - M1. Same individual as 3050. 2012/07/26 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea Cercopithecidae Cynocephalinae Simopithecus No
5195 DK I L/2 8249 24 - DK PHX 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2 Strip I -- Very weathered phalanx. Card in bag with specimen states "Field No: Old 63 strip I L/2 5195". Other card found in bag with specimen states "Old 63 DK I L/2 5195 Cercopithecoidea". 2012/08/07 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
751 L/2 8262 R-SCPH 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2 -- Right scaphoid. Card in bag with specimen states "Loc: Olduvai Field No: DK IA Old/62". Other card found in bag states "Appears to be right scaphoid closer to papio in morphology than most PW 12/84 theropithecus". Pleistocene. Card written by P. W. 2012/08/09 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
2958 DK I A/2 8247 24 - DK PHX-f 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2, A? -- Proximal phalanx. Pleistocene. 2012/08/07 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
DK IA L/2 8225 24 - DK PHX 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 2, C? -- Distal phalanx. Card in bag with specimen states "OLD 1963 DK IA L/2 5115 Cercopithecoidea. Cynocephalinae. Terminal phalange". 2012/08/03 264 - Leakey family expedition Unknown Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Cercopithecoidea No
OVPP-Mammalia 3801 83 - FLK NW AST, (n=33), CAL, (n=73), FEM, (n=272), HUM, (n=186), I, (n=316), M, (n=108), MAN, (n=161), MAX, (n=68), MTP, (n=257), PHX, (n=77), PVG, (n=218), RAD, (n=55), SCP, (n=40), TIB, (n=395), ULNA, (n=76), VER, (n=595) I 20 Arcos, S., Sevilla, P., and Fernandez-Jalvo, Y. 2010. Preliminary small mammal taphonomy of FLK NW level 20 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). Quarternary Research 74:405-410. MNI is 198. Authors describe specimens as "small mammals". Unknown Mammalia Authors describe specimens as "small mammals". No
OH 7 3722 6 - FLK NN 283 - 45 MAN , L-PAR , R-PAR-f , M , OCC-f , L/R-TEM-f , PHX , CAR 1960 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 3 On surface of clay immediately overlying Tuff IB. 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. Holotype. "Jonny's Child". Juvenile. Mandible with partial dentition and unerupted R/L-M3, almost complete left parietal and fragments of right parietal, left and right petrous portions (temporal) , "sundry small skull fragments ... [and] twenty-one bones of the hand, including the trapezium, scaphoid and a number of phalanges" (Leakey, MD, 1971:228). "One upper molar, a terminal phalanx, and a broken capitate bone, found on the surface, probably also belong to this individual" (:226). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis Holotype No