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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
	OVPP-Zinjanthropus 10	3920	5 - FLK		CRA-f			I	middle (Zinjanthropus)	22 feet below the upper limit of bed I.	Leakey, LSB. 1960. Recent discoveries at Olduvai Gorge. Nature 188:1050-1052.	Author describes specimen as "parts of the skull of a second individual," in reference to the first Z. boisei skull found at this site OH 5.	157 - L. Hlusko		264 - Leakey family expedition	Unknown		Mammalia	Artiodactyla	Ruminantia		Bovoidea	Bovidae							No
	OVPP-Tatera 4	3964	7 - FLK North		CRA-f, M			I	1		Denys, C. 1989. Two new gerbillids (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Olduvai Bed I (Pleistocene, Tanzania). Neues Jahrbuch f	Specimen is described as the "anterior skull fragment with the left and right upper molar rows"				Unknown		Mammalia	Rodentia	Myomorpha	Myodonta	Muroidea	Muridae	Gerbillinae	Taterillini	Tatera	gentryi		Holotype	No
	MLK 068/6514	7564	34 - MLK		CRA-f, P, M, (n=3)			II	Lower	From horizon above Lemuta Member of Lowed Bed II	Leakey MG and Leakey REF. 1973. New large Pleistocene colobinae (Mammalia, Primates) from East Africa. Fossil Vertebrates of Africa Vol. 3, 121-38.	Similar to colobine specimen KNM-ER 398 in cranial dimensions. Maxillary dentition represented by P4, M2, M1, M2. Crania is represented by multiple fragments, and some fragments are missing. Large canine socket of right maxilla indicates specimen is male. Specimen is pictured in Plate 3.			264 - Leakey family expedition	Unknown		Mammalia	Primates	Anthropoidea	Haplorhini	Cercopithecoidea	Cercopithecidae						Either Cercopithecinae or Cynopithencinae. Author states that the cranium is typical of Cercopithecinae but that the dental morphology resembles Cynopithecinae.	No
	BM(NH) M21460	7642			CRA						Gentry, A., Gentry, A., and Mayr, H. 1995. Rediscovery of fossil antelope holotypes (Mammalia, Bovidae) collected from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1913. Bayerische Staatssammlung fur Palaontologie und	Skill in is Munich. Cast of holotype in Natural History Museum in London, and now duplicated in the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi.			273 - Reck expedition	Unknown		Mammalia	Artiodactyla	Ruminantia		Bovoidea	Bovidae	Antilopinae	Antilopini	Antidorcas	recki			No
	7446	7643	7 - FLK North		CRA-f, TOOTH			I	Zinjanthropus	3	Petter, G. 1973. Carnivores Pleistocenes du ravin d’Olduvai (Tanzanie). Fossil vertebrates of Africa 3:43-100.	Specimen is the anterior portion of the skull with teeth. Specimen is broken.				Unknown		Mammalia	Carnivora	Caniformia	Cynoidea		Canidae			Canis	mesomelas	latirostris		No