- 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:
- 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.
BK II 1957.662
- CODI ID:
- 208
- Arch. Locality:
- 10 - BK
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- L-FRO, L-HOR-f
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Ruminantia
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Bovoidea
- Family:
- Bovidae
- Subfamily:
- Alcelaphinae
- Tribe:
- Aepycerotini
- Genus:
- Aepyceros
- Species:
- indet.
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- This specimen was reclassified as Aepyceros melampus by Gentry and Gentry (1978).
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- II
- Level:
- In Situ:
- Unknown
- Stratigraphic Horizon: