- 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 was badly cracked and weathered prior to fossilization. Other specimens are found here as well. 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 608
- CODI ID:
- 212
- Arch. Locality:
- 6 - FLK NN
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- MAN, CRA, HOR, MAX
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Ruminantia
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Bovoidea
- Family:
- Bovidae
- Subfamily:
- Alcelaphinae
- Tribe:
- Alcelaphini
- Genus:
- Species:
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- This specimen was reclassified as Hippotragus gigas by Gentry and Gentry (1978).
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- I
- Level:
- middle
- In Situ:
- Yes
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- 1, 2, 3