- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1955
- ID By:
- 130 - L.S.B. Leakey
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 264 - Leakey family expedition
- Repository:
- 106 - Natural History Museum UK (?)
- Bibilographic Information:
- Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Curatorial Notes:
- This specimen was incorrectly stated by Leakey (1965) that its museum number is M. 21452 but this was corrected by Gentry and Gentry (1978a). It is pictured in Leakey (1965) plate 52 (lower) and in Gentry and Gentry (1978a) plate 16, figure 3.
BK II 1955 P.P.F. 1
- CODI ID:
- 129
- Arch. Locality:
- 10 - BK
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- R-FRO, R-HOR
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Ruminantia
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Bovoidea
- Family:
- Bovidae
- Subfamily:
- Bovinae
- Tribe:
- Bovini
- Genus:
- Gorgon
- Species:
- olduvaiensis
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- This specimen was later reclassified as Connochaetes taurinus olduvaiensis by Gentry and Gentry (1978).
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- II
- Level:
- In Situ:
- Unknown
- Stratigraphic Horizon: