Excavation/Discovery Date:

1931-32

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:

M. 14682

CODI ID:

1344

Arch. Locality:

Geo. Locality:

Elements Preserved:

L-MAN-f, P, M

Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Artiodactyla

Suborder:

Suiformes

Infraorder:

Superfamily:

Suoidea

Family:

Suidae

Subfamily:

Tribe:

Genus:

Koiropotamus

Species:

majus

Subspecies:

Taxonomic Notes:

Holotype. This specimen was later reclassified as Kolpochoerus majus by Bishop (2010)

Taxonomic Problems: