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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-390 11922 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-390 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae 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-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-645 11983 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-645 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-368 12234 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-368 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-877 12255 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-877; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-875 12256 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-875; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-931 12282 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-931; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-859 12293 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-859 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-855 12294 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-855; metapodial distal end Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-799 12315 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-799 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-774 12321 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-774 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-773 12322 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-773; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-743 12327 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-743; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-741 12328 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-741 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-734 12330 POD 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-734 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-730 12332 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-730; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-728 12333 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-728; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-704 12338 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-704 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-701 12339 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-701; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-687 12340 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-687 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-679 12344 MTP 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-679 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-670 12347 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-670 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-667 12349 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-667 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-663 12351 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-663 Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-661 12352 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-661; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OLD-307 12362 PHX 114 - Natural History Museum UK -- OLD-307; intermediate phalanx Unknown Mammalia Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae Yes
OH 5 3713 5 - FLK 283 - 45 CRA , MAX , M , I , C , P 17 July - 6 August 1959 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I Middle (Zinj.) 22 feet below the upper limit of Bed I (Tuff IF), approximately 20 feet above basalt. Leakey, L. S. B. 1959. A new fossil skull from Olduvai. Nature 184:491-493. Holotype. Almost complete cranium. Adolescent. One reconstructed fossil found at House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. Additional pieces from NMK unpublished. 142 - M. D. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Zinjanthropus boisei Holotype. This specimen was reclassified as Paranthropus boisei by Robinson (1960). No
OH 4 3720 8 - MK 281 - 11 P , M , MAN 1959 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I Lower Surface. 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. Paratype. Two isolated teeth (lower molar and upper premolar) and one M3 in a mandible. Found in small block of consolidated tuff. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 282 - H. Mukiri 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis Paratype No
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 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
OH 8 3723 6 - FLK NN 283 - 45 PHX , CAR , TAR , CLA , AST , CAL , CUNE , CUB , NAV , M-f 1960 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I 3 Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. The molar-f was found on the surface and "probably also belongs to OH 8" (Leakey MD, 1971:228). Twelve associated foot bones including astragalus (has carnivore tooth marks (Leakey MD, 1971), calcaneus, cuboid and navicular, cuneiforms 1- 3, proximal ends with shafts, five metatarsals. Proximal ends of one metacarpal and three finger phalanges. One radius shaft. Clavicle with damaged articular ends. Foot articulates "almost perfectly with the OH 35 leg" (Susman, 1983:372). 130 - L.S.B. Leakey 264 - Leakey family expedition Yes Mammalia Primates Anthropoidea Haplorhini Hominoidea Hominidae Homininae Hominini Homo habilis Paratype No