|
OVPP-Taurotragus 1 |
285 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I, II, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Taurotragini |
Taurotragus |
oryx |
pachyceros |
|
No |
|
OVPP-Tragelaphus 3 |
288 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Tragelaphini |
Tragelaphus |
scriptus |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Strepsiceros 1 |
289 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I, II, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Strepsicerotini |
Strepsiceros |
strepsiceros |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Strepsiceros 2 |
290 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Strepsicerotini |
Strepsiceros |
imberbis |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Bularchus 2 |
291 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
II, III, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Bularchus |
arok |
|
This specimen was reclassified as Pelorovis oldowayensis by Gentry and Gentry (1978). |
No |
|
OVPP-Philantomba 1 |
292 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
IV |
|
|
|
The author indicates this species might be found in bed 4. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Cephalophinae |
|
Philantomba |
monticola |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Hippotragus 2 |
293 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
niro |
|
The author listed this species as H. nyiro. We assume they meant H. niro. |
No |
|
OVPP-Hippotragus 3 |
294 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
II, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
equinas |
|
This specimen was reclassified as Hippotragus gigas by Gentry and Gentry (1978). |
No |
|
OVPP-Hippotragus 4 |
295 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
niger |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Parmularius 1 |
297 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
altidens |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Alcelaphus 1 |
298 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
II, III, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Alcelaphus |
kattwinkeli |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Beatragus 1 |
299 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I, II, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Beatragus |
hunteri |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Gorgon 3 |
300 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I, II, III, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Gorgon |
taurinus |
semiticus |
|
No |
|
OVPP-Nesotragus 1 |
301 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Neotragini |
Nesotragus |
moschatus |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Gazella 6 |
302 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
II, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
gazella |
precursor |
|
No |
|
OVPP-Phenacotragus 2 |
303 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I, II, IV |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Neotragini |
Phenacotragus |
recki |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Pultiphagonides 1 |
304 |
|
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Caprinae |
Caprini |
Pultiphagonides |
africanus |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Tilapia 2 |
311 |
24 - DK |
|
UK |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
lower |
|
|
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Actinopterygii |
Perciformes |
|
|
|
Cichlidae |
Pseudocrenilabrinae |
Tilapini |
Tilapia |
sp. |
|
|
No |
|
FLK N I 9394 |
932 |
7 - FLK North |
|
L-MTC |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
upper |
5 |
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in Gentry and Gentry (1978a) plate 19, figure 2 (lower). |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Caprinae |
Caprini |
|
|
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen to aff. Caprinae. |
No |
|
BK II 067/5238 |
1037 |
10 - BK |
|
|
|
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 86, 3rd from the left. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
|
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978) say this specimen is of "Type A" variety and could "doubtfully be included in D. niro." |
No |
|
BK II 067/5237 |
1051 |
10 - BK |
|
R-HOR |
|
|
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 86, second from the left. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
|
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978) say this specimen is of "Type A" variety and could "doubtfully be included in D. niro." |
No |
|
F. 3014 |
4340 |
|
|
FRLT, R-HOR-f |
|
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
|
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plates 89 and 90. Original information indicated that this specimen was located in Nairobi. This specimen is likely within the material that was repatriated to Dar in 2011, but this has yet to be confirmed. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
This specimen was reclassified as Hippotragus gigas by Gentry and Gentry (1978). |
No |
|
FLK I/E-G 391 |
2 |
5 - FLK |
|
L-MAN, L/R-RAM-f, L-P, L-M, R-P, R-M |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
middle (Zinjanthropus) |
22 feet below the upper limit of Bed I. |
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Strepsirrhini |
Lorisiformes |
|
Galagidae |
|
|
Galago |
senegalensis |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Aquila 1 |
236 |
|
|
|
1913 |
104 - Unknown |
I, II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Several bird specimens have been found. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Aves |
Ciconiiformes |
Ciconii |
Falconides |
|
Accipitridae |
|
|
Aquila |
rapax |
|
|
No |
|
M. 21461 |
118 |
13 - RK |
|
CRA, R/L-HOR, R-I, R-P, R-M |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
upper |
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plates 38 and 39. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Strepsicerotini |
Strepsiceros |
grandis |
|
Holotype. Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Tragelaphus strepsiceros grandis. |
No |
|
M. 14564 |
144 |
|
|
HOR-f |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is a fragment of a horn core. It was originally assigned to Hippotragus cf. niger by Leakey and later reassigned to D. niro by Gentry and Gentry (1978a). No locality information is provided. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
niger |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Damaliscus niro. |
No |
|
M. 21447 |
181 |
23 - TK |
|
CRA, L/R-MAX-f, L-HOR, L/R-P, L/R-M, L/R-I |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
III, IV |
|
4 feet below Masek Beds |
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This neotype specimen is pictured in plates 81 and 82. The original holotype of M. kattwinkelli (VI-1099) was lost in WWII in Munich. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Xenocephalus |
kattwinkelli |
|
Neotype - This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Megalotragus kattwinkeli. |
No |
|
M. 14507 |
182 |
|
|
HOR |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
praecursor |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Antidorcas recki. |
No |
|
M. 14508 |
183 |
|
|
HOR |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Gentry (1966) suggests this specimen is "probably" from the surface. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
praecursor |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Antidorcas recki. |
No |
|
M. 14513 |
186 |
|
|
HOR |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen was originally assigned to aff. Gazella by Leakey (1965) and later assigned to Antidorcas recki by Gentry and Gentry (1978a). It is shown in Gentry (1966) plate 7A.. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
|
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Antidorcas recki. |
No |
|
M. 21462 |
188 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA, L/R-HOR |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
The specimen is pictured in plate 85. It is pictured in plate 5 of Gentry (1966). |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
|
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Antidorcas recki. |
No |
|
M. 14563 |
206 |
18 - VEK |
|
R-FRO, R-HOR |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
273 - Reck expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Neotragini |
Phenacotragus |
recki |
|
This specimen was reclassified as Gazella wellsi by Gentry (1966) and later to Antidorcas recki by Gentry and Gentry (1978). |
No |
|
M. 14549 |
119 |
|
|
HOR-f |
1932 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I, II, III |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Leakey (1965) indicated this specimen was found on the surface of Bed III, though the museum's label indicates Bed I and markings on the horn core indicate Bed II. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Strepsicerotini |
Strepsiceros |
grandis |
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Tragelaphus strepsiceros grandis. |
No |
|
M. 21449 |
149 |
|
|
R-HOR-f |
1932 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I or II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
The label indicates Bed I but Bed II is written on the specimen and in the register according to the authors. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
equinus |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Hippotragus gigas. It may be a female H. gigas rather than a male H. equinus. |
No |
|
M. 21430 |
174 |
21 - HWK Castle |
|
SKULL, R-HOR-f |
1932 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
Base of Bed IV. |
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plates 75 and 76. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
rugosus |
|
Holotype |
No |
|
M. 21429 |
211 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA, L/R-HOR-f |
1932 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II? |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
The specimen was badly crushed prior to fossilization. It is pictured in plate 91. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
This specimen was reclassified as Parmularius cf. angusticornis by Gentry and Gentry (1978). Gentry and Gentry (1978) say this specimen's horn cores have attributes of P. antiquus as well. |
No |
|
M. 14683 |
10383 |
|
|
Two upper tusks, probably of the same individual. |
1934 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
lower part, Middle Pleistocene |
Kamasian Pluvial |
LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14. |
British Museum Palaeontology Department |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
1942 |
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
Potamochoerus |
majus |
|
Paratypes. Originally classified as Koiropotamus majus (Hopwood, 1934). Reclassified as Potamochoerus majus (Leakey, 1942). |
Yes |
|
M. 21470 |
117 |
12 - CK |
|
R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Strepsicerotini |
Strepsiceros |
sp. |
|
This specimen was reclassified as Tragelaphus stepsiceros by Gentry and Gentry (1978). |
No |
|
M. 21469 |
120 |
12 - CK |
|
R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
No information is given about elements preserved. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Strepsicerotini |
Strepsiceros |
grandis |
|
Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Tragelaphus strepsiceros grandis. |
No |
|
M. 21451 |
128 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA-f, R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
III, IV |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This holotype was found at the junction of Beds 3 and 4. It is pictured in plates 49 and 50. [This species is documented at SHK II, FLK N I, and BK II (Leakey, 1971).] |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
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264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
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Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
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Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Gorgon |
olduvaiensis |
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Holotype - Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Connochaetes taurinus olduvaiensis. |
No |