|
F42 |
3049 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
PLR |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Auffenberg, W. 1981. The fossil turtles of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa. Copeia 1981:509-522. |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
F297 |
3050 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
PLAS |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Auffenberg, W. 1981. The fossil turtles of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa. Copeia 1981:509-522. |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
Pelomedusidae |
|
|
Pelusios |
sinuatus |
|
|
No |
|
F325 |
3051 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
PLAS |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Auffenberg, W. 1981. The fossil turtles of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa. Copeia 1981:509-522. |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
Pelomedusidae |
|
|
Pelusios |
sinuatus |
|
|
No |
|
F378 |
3052 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
CARA, PLAS |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Auffenberg, W. 1981. The fossil turtles of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa. Copeia 1981:509-522. |
This specimen is from a juvenile. |
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
Pelomedusidae |
|
|
Pelusios |
sinuatus |
|
|
No |
|
R5761 |
3053 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
SHEL |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Auffenberg, W. 1981. The fossil turtles of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa. Copeia 1981:509-522. |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
Pelomedusidae |
|
|
Pelusios |
sinuatus |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Testudines 12 |
3079 |
|
|
CARA, PLAS |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
NN42 |
3080 |
|
|
CARA-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
-- |
The authors say this specimen comes from "NN" though this is not a known locality. Perhaps it comes from FLK NN. |
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
F558 |
3081 |
|
|
CARA-f, NRL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
-- |
The authors say this specimen comes from "SI" though this is not a known locality. |
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
Cryptodira |
|
Testidinoidea |
Testudinidae |
|
|
Geochelone |
sp. |
|
The author puts this specimen in Geochelone, species B. |
No |
|
F84 |
3083 |
11 - HWK |
|
PERI |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
F6250 |
3085 |
69 - GRK S |
|
CARA, PLAS-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
OVPP-Testudines 15 |
3086 |
18 - VEK |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
OVPP-Testudines 16 |
3087 |
70 - EHK |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
OVPP-Testudines 17 |
3088 |
9 - THC |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
OVPP-Testudines 18 |
3095 |
22 - SC |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
F556 |
3101 |
8 - MK |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
F565 |
3102 |
8 - MK |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
F57 |
3103 |
8 - MK |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
F645 |
3104 |
8 - MK |
|
SHEL-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
IV |
|
|
-- |
|
152 - W. Auffenberg |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The author mentions there are over 3,000 fossilized turtle fragments from Olduvai Gorge, 98% of which are from the species Pelusios sinuatus. However, it is unclear which specimens belong to which species based on the description given. When it was unclear, the specimen is only referred to as belonging to the Order Testudines. |
No |
|
OVPP-Elephas 1 |
90 |
8 - MK |
|
SKEL |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
lower |
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is shown in plate 17. Most of the skeleton is preserved. |
134 - C. Arambourg |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
Embedded in matrix |
Mammalia |
Proboscidea |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Elephantidae |
|
|
Elephas |
africanavus |
|
|
Unknown |
|
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 |
|
OH 2 |
3718 |
27 - MNK |
279 - 88 |
CRA-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
III/IV |
Lowest horizon of Bed IVa. |
Surface. Found at head of MNK Gully where Beds II and IV are exposed. |
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Two cranial vault fragments. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. Not found at House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
erectus |
|
Similar to OH 9 and OH 12. |
No |
|
OVPP-Trionyx 1 |
230 |
6 - FLK NN |
|
UK |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
middle |
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
140 - E.E. Williams |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Reptilia |
Testudines |
Cryptodira |
|
|
Trionychidae |
|
|
Trionyx |
|
|
|
No |
|
M. 29416 |
1001 |
22 - SC |
|
R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
Surface |
|
Gentry, A. W., and Gentry, A. 1978. Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Geology 29:289-446. |
A right horn core base. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
angusticornis |
|
"The small basal diameters of M 29416 give it an appearance like P. altidens" (Gentry and Gentry, 1978:388). |
No |
|
M. 17074 |
10385 |
|
|
A fragment of mandible with a well preserved lower third molar |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
top of Bed I |
F.L.K. |
LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14. |
Brit. Mus. Palaeont. Dept. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
1958 |
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suina |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
Potamochoerus |
majus |
|
|
Yes |
|
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. 14947 |
125 |
17 - PLK |
|
FRLT-f, L/R-HOR-f |
|
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. |
Specimen is pictured in plate 46. According to the author, it is "in bad shape." Gentry and Gentry suggest this specimen probably came from the top of Bed 2 at PLK. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
1936 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Bovini |
Bularchus |
arok |
|
Holotype - Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassidfied this specimen as Pelorovis oldowayensis. |
No |
|
M. 14689 |
164 |
11 - HWK |
|
SKULL, MAN |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
upper |
|
Hopwood, A. 1934. New fossil mammals from Olduvai, Tanganyika territory. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 10: 546-550. |
This holotype is pictured in plate 70. It was excavated 15 ft. below upper Bed 1 in a "tuffaceous deposit." It was found near the mouth of HWK. |
293 - A.T. Hopwood |
|
|
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
altidens |
|
Holotype |
No |
|
M. 14950 |
177 |
22 - SC |
|
FRLT, L-HOR, R-HOR-f |
|
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 plate 79 of Leakey (1965). |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Antidorcas |
kattwinkelli |
|
Holotype - This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Megalotragus kattwinkeli. |
No |
|
M. 17090 |
253 |
10 - BK |
|
L-MAN-f, M |
|
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 holotype was described in a previous monograph (Leakey, 1958). |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
Suinae |
Suini |
Mesochoerus |
olduvaiensis |
|
Holotype |
No |
|
M. 18779 |
1312 |
39 - MRC |
|
R-MAX-f |
|
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
Upper, surface? |
|
Jolly, C. J. 1972. The classification and natural history of Theropithecus (Simopithecus)(Andrews, 1916), baboons of the African Plio-Pleistocene: British Museum (Natural History) |
|
146 - C. J. Jolly |
|
|
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cercopithecinae |
Papionini |
Theropithecus |
gelada |
|
|
No |