Excavation/Discovery Date:

1957

ID By:

130 - L.S.B. Leakey

ID Date:

Research Team:

264 - Leakey family expedition

Repository:

105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?)

Bibilographic Information:

Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Curatorial Notes:

This is only a damaged root of the canine. 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.

791/1957

CODI ID:

61

Arch. Locality:

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Elements Preserved:

C-f

Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Carnivora

Suborder:

Feliformia

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Superfamily:

Family:

Felidae

Subfamily:

Machairodontinae

Tribe:

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Taxonomic Notes:

The author suggests it is like a saber-toothed cat but is "far too large to belong to the small species...from Bed 1." This specimen could be one of the specimens listed in Leakey (1971) from DK, FLK NN, FLK N II, or SHK.

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