- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1911
- ID By:
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 273 - Reck expedition
- Repository:
- 116 - Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), Munich, Germany
- Bibilographic Information:
- Dietrich, W.O. 1937. Pleistoz
- Curatorial Notes:
- M2. Reck Field No.: none. Originally described by Dietrich as part of 1911 VI 9. Leakey, 1965 used the name Libytherium olduvaiensis.
1911 VI 501
- CODI ID:
- 8592
- Arch. Locality:
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- L-M
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Ruminantia
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Giraffoidea
- Family:
- Giraffidae
- Subfamily:
- Sivatheriinae
- Tribe:
- Genus:
- Sivatherium
- Species:
- olduvaiensis
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Inventoried by Faysal Bibi in 2012.
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- Level:
- In Situ:
- Unknown
- Stratigraphic Horizon: