- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1931
- 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 is a fragment of a horn core. It was originally assigned to Hippotragus cf. niger by Leakey and later reassigned to D. niro by Gentry and Gentry (1978a). No locality information is provided.
M. 14564
- CODI ID:
- 144
- Arch. Locality:
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- HOR-f
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Ruminantia
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Bovoidea
- Family:
- Bovidae
- Subfamily:
- Hippotraginae
- Tribe:
- Hippotragini
- Genus:
- Hippotragus
- Species:
- niger
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Damaliscus niro.
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- IV
- Level:
- In Situ:
- Unknown
- Stratigraphic Horizon: