Excavation/Discovery Date:

ID By:

293 - A.T. Hopwood

ID Date:

Research Team:

Repository:

106 - Natural History Museum UK (?)

Bibilographic Information:

Hopwood, A. 1934. New fossil mammals from Olduvai, Tanganyika territory. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 10: 546-550.

Curatorial Notes:

This specimen is pictured in plate 14b and 14c (Jolly, 1972).

M. 14681

CODI ID:

1313

Arch. Locality:

Geo. Locality:

Elements Preserved:

L-MAX-f, L-M, L-P

Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Primates

Suborder:

Anthropoidea

Infraorder:

Haplorhini

Superfamily:

Cercopithecoidea

Family:

Cercopithecidae

Subfamily:

Cynocephalinae

Tribe:

Genus:

Simopithecus

Species:

leakeyi

Subspecies:

Taxonomic Notes:

This specimen was reclassified as aff. Theropithecus by Jolly (1972).

Taxonomic Problems: