|
OVPP-L-266 |
8408 |
|
|
M |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
-- |
Specimen label: OLD-87----?-1-S, Box#: OLD 87-3-E. |
158 - W. Reiner |
2012/07/01 |
|
Unknown |
Y |
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-L-267 |
8409 |
|
|
TOOTH |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
-- |
Box#: OLD 87-3-E. |
158 - W. Reiner |
2012/07/01 |
|
Unknown |
Y |
Mammalia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
1931 II 846 |
8434 |
|
|
TOOTH |
1913 |
116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany |
|
|
|
-- |
Reck Field No.: None. Matrix chunk with several indet. tooth fragments. |
|
|
273 - Reck expedition |
Unknown |
Y |
Mammalia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012. |
No |
|
OVPP-194 |
9186 |
|
|
L-MAN, TOOTH |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
II |
Middle |
Sandstone. |
-- |
Left mandible with 3 teeth. Needs preparation. Fossil not labeled. In matrix. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2012/07/06 |
253 - OVPP |
Yes |
Y |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Giraffoidea |
Giraffidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-815 |
12911 |
|
|
M, MAX |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-815 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
upper molar with adhering maxilla |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-822 |
12916 |
27 - MNK |
|
I (2), MAX-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-822; "OLDOWAY MNK 6.5.35." |
|
|
|
Unknown |
two incisors with maxillary fragment adhering |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Elephas 2 |
91 |
8 - MK |
|
MAN, C, M, I, P |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
lower |
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Several other specimens found at this site in Bed I but probably fell from Bed II. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
Specimen was "embedded in matrix." |
Mammalia |
Proboscidea |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Elephantidae |
|
|
Elephas |
africanavus |
|
|
No |
|
OLD-55 |
12713 |
|
|
MAN, TOOTH |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-55; MAN with teeth |
|
|
|
Unknown |
sediment adhering |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-69 |
12803 |
|
|
MTP |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-69; distal MTP |
|
|
|
Unknown |
sediment adhering |
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Hippomorpha |
|
|
Equidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
HWK EE II 2315 |
894 |
37 - HWK EE |
|
R-HOR |
|
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
4 |
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. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Yes |
Sandy conglomerate |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Connochaetes |
sp. |
|
|
No |
|
OLD-808 |
12905 |
|
|
M, MAX-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-808 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
molar with adhering max-f |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-781 |
12882 |
27 - MNK |
|
TOOTH |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
IV |
|
|
-- |
OLD-781; "OLDY MNK IV ? S 15/5/35" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
maybe MAN or MAX adhering; in concretion |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
M. 21423 |
156 |
19 - SHK |
|
FRLT, L/R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
Matrix adhering to the specimen suggests it may come from Bed 4. |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
angusticornis |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Parmularius angusticornis. |
No |
|
M. 21422 |
155 |
18 - VEK |
|
CRA-f, L/R-HOR-f |
1935 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
138 - E. Schwarz |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
Matrix adhering to specimen suggests it came from Bed 2. |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
angusticornius |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Parmularius angusticornis. |
No |
|
M. 14530 |
148 |
|
|
L-HOR-f |
1932 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
I |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
Matrix adhering suggests it may have come from Bed 2. |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
equinus |
|
This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Hippotragus gigas. |
No |
|
OLD-788 |
12889 |
313 - GRK |
|
M, MAX-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-788; "Oldoway GRK II 15/7/35" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
M with adhering MAX-f |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-844 |
12929 |
|
|
M, MAX-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-844 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
M with adhering MAX-f |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suiformes |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-L-96 |
4064 |
|
|
MAN-f, M, TOOTH |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
-- |
|
157 - L. Hlusko |
2012/07/06 |
|
Unknown |
M |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
Hoopoe Gully 068/6661 |
1074 |
56 - Hoopoe Gully |
|
R-HOR, FRO-f |
1962 |
|
|
|
|
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. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
No |
light olive grey claystone, locally sandy, and quartzose sand |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
agelaius |
|
|
No |
|
OH 12 |
3727 |
18 - VEK |
286 - 86 |
OCC
, L/R-PAR
, L/R-TEM-f
, CRA-f
, L-PAL
, L-MAX
, TOOTH-f |
1962 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
IV? |
a |
Surface. Found on eroded slope of Bed III. L-TEM-f from just below marker Tuff IVa. |
Leakey, L., and Leakey, M. 1964. Recent discoveries of fossil hominids in tanganyika: at Olduvai and near Lake Natron. Nature 202:5-7. |
Crowns of teeth not preserved. Bed IVA determined on basis of matrix adhering to L-TEM-f and PAL. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
L-TEM-f & PAL found with matrix adhering. |
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
erectus |
|
|
No |
|
OLD-748 |
12856 |
|
|
MTT |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-748; Another bone fragment fused onto specimen, with concretion |
|
|
|
Unknown |
in concretion |
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Ceratomorpha |
Tapiromorpha |
Rhinocerotoidea |
Rhinocerotidae |
|
|
|
|
|
in Rhino drawer |
Unknown |
|
OLD-750 |
12859 |
|
|
TOOTH |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-750 |
|
|
|
Unknown |
in concretion |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
in Hippo drawer |
No |
|
OLD-357 |
12564 |
69 - GRK S |
|
TUSK |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-357; tusk in concretion; "OLD Y GRK II S 27 V ?" |
|
|
|
Unknown |
in concretion |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
in Hippo drawer |
Unknown |
|
OLD-493 |
12667 |
|
|
R-MAN-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
|
|
|
-- |
OLD-493; R-MAN-f and symphsis with with erupting teeth in concretion |
|
|
|
Unknown |
in concretion |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Hippopotamidae |
|
|
|
|
|
in Hippo drawer |
Unknown |
|
OH 26 |
3741 |
55 - FLK W |
|
R-M |
1969 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I/II See curatorial notes. |
Upper |
Surface, .6 m below Tuff If at top of Bed I. |
Tobias, PV. 1991. The Skulls, endocasts and teeth of Homo habilis. Cambridge: University Press. |
Large unworn right L. M3. "Direct evidence as to the original position of the tooth was ... not obtained but, on the basis of the adhering matrix, which is indistinguishable from the limestone nodules overlying Tuff IF, it can be assumed to have come from the base of Bed II..." (Tobias, 1991:848). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
Found embedded in small nodule of calcareous concretion. |
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
|
|
Australopithecus |
boisei |
|
|
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 |
|
OLD-601 |
12750 |
27 - MNK |
|
C |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
IV |
|
|
-- |
OLD-601; MNK IV ?S |
|
|
|
Unknown |
concretion adhering |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Suina |
|
Suoidea |
Suidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
S. 38 |
1069 |
|
268 - 54 |
CRA
, L/R-HOR |
1968 |
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
Above the Lemuta Member |
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. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 25, figure 1. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Yes |
Agutite and mafic volcanic glass. |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Damaliscus |
agelaius |
|
|
No |
|
068/6695 |
1267 |
|
|
R-HOR |
|
104 - Unknown |
I? |
|
|
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. |
The author says that M.D. Leakey indicated this specimen might com from Bed I but has adherent matrix from a later deposit. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
"slightly clayey quartzose sandstone" |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Antilopinae |
Antilopini |
Gazella |
sp. |
|
|
No |
|
HWK EE II 1965.068/5975 |
1018 |
37 - HWK EE |
|
CRA-f, R/L-HOR |
1965 |
104 - Unknown |
II |
middle |
found 3.7 meters above the Sandy Conglomerate |
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. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 26, figures 1, 2. |
131 - A. Remane |
|
|
Yes |
"pyroxene-rich volcanic sandstone" |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
Parmularius |
sp. |
|
|
No |
|
M. 14688 |
215 |
|
|
SKULL, L-HOR, M, P |
1931 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
II |
|
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
This specimen is pictured in plates 93 and 94. It was found in the 1931-1932 field season. The locality was not provided. |
293 - A.T. Hopwood |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
"pebbly and consolidated sandy matrix of dark colour" |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Caprinae |
Caprini |
Pultiphagonides |
africanus |
|
Holotype - This specimen was reclassified as Connochaetes africanus by Gentry and Gentry (1978). |
No |
|
FLK II 1961.068/6663 |
833 |
5 - FLK |
|
L-HOR, CRA-f |
1961 |
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
II |
middle |
|
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. |
The specimen is pictured in plate 10, figure 2. The other specimen pictured is DK I 067/5496. 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. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
"limestone with with sand-size volcanic detritus" |
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Hippotraginae |
Hippotragini |
Hippotragus |
gigas |
|
|
No |
|
BK II 1957.42 |
822 |
10 - BK |
|
L-HUM-f |
1957 |
104 - Unknown |
II |
|
|
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. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
kob |
|
This humerus is likely from a kob but the authors are unsure. |
No |
|
JK2 GP8 III 068/6694 |
823 |
46 - JK 2 |
|
FRLT, L-HOR, R-HOR-f |
|
104 - Unknown |
III |
|
|
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. |
This specimen is pictured in plate 9. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
kob |
|
|
No |
|
M. 26928 |
824 |
|
|
HOR |
1934 |
106 - Natural History Museum UK (?) |
|
|
|
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. |
This specimen was collected in 1934 by Wayland. Its locality is unknown. |
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
kob |
|
|
No |
|
JK2 B III |
825 |
46 - JK 2 |
|
R-M |
|
104 - Unknown |
III |
|
|
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. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
kob |
|
Although this lower molar is larger than most of the K. kob lineage, the authors believes it belongs to K. kob. |
No |
|
JK2 III A.3271 |
826 |
46 - JK 2 |
|
d-L-P |
|
104 - Unknown |
III |
|
|
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. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
kob |
|
Although this lower molar is larger than most of the K. kob lineage, the authors believe it belongs to K. kob. |
No |
|
JK2 GP8 III GN 47 |
827 |
46 - JK 2 |
|
L-M |
|
104 - Unknown |
III |
|
|
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. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Kobus |
kob |
|
Although this lower molar is larger than most of the K. kob lineage, the authors believes it belongs to K. kob. |
No |
|
DK I 067/4085 |
828 |
24 - DK |
|
R-M |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
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. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Redunca |
sp. |
|
The authors put this in Redunca sp. due to the small size. |
No |
|
FLK N I 067/185 |
829 |
7 - FLK North |
|
R-M |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
|
|
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. |
|
137 - A. Gentry |
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Reduncinae |
Reduncini |
Redunca |
sp. |
|
The authors put this in Redunca sp. due to the small size. |
No |