Excavation/Discovery Date:
1960
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 specimen is pictured in plate 28. This skull is "very crushed."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.

FLK NN I 177/1960

CODI ID:
107
Arch. Locality:
6 - FLK NN
Geo. Locality:
Elements Preserved:
CRA, MAX, P, M, C
Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Artiodactyla
Suborder:
Suiformes
Infraorder:
Superfamily:
Suoidea
Family:
Suidae
Subfamily:
Suinae
Tribe:
Suini
Genus:
Potamochoerus
Species:
intermedius
Subspecies:
Taxonomic Notes:
Holotype
Taxonomic Problems:
Bed:
I
Level:
middle
In Situ:
Unknown
Stratigraphic Horizon:
3

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