Excavation/Discovery Date:: 1934
ID By:
ID Date:: 1934
Research Team:
Repository:: 114 - Natural History Museum UK
Bibilographic Information:: LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14.
Curatorial Notes:

M. 14682

CODI ID:: 10382
Arch. Locality:
Geo. Locality:
Elements Preserved:: Part of a left mandibular ramus with P3-M1 and the alveolus for P2.
Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:: Mammalia
Order:: Artiodactyla
Suborder:: Suiformes
Infraorder:
Superfamily:: Suoidea
Family:: Suidae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus:: Potamochoerus
Species:: majus
Subspecies:
Taxonomic Notes:: Holotype. Originally classified as Koiropotamus majus (Hopwood, 1934). Reclassified as Potamochoerus majus (Leakey, 1942).
Taxonomic Problems:

Bed:: IV
Level:: upper part, Middle Pleistocene
In Situ:: Unknown
Stratigraphic Horizon:: Kanjeran Pluvial

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