Excavation/Discovery Date:: 1934
ID By:: 130 - L.S.B. Leakey
ID Date:: 1942
Research Team:
Repository:: 106 - Natural History Museum UK (?)
Bibilographic Information:: LSB Leakey. 1958. Fossil Mammals of Africa: Some East African Pleistocene Suidae. British Museum. No. 14.
Curatorial Notes:: British Museum Palaeontology Department

M. 14683

CODI ID:: 10383
Arch. Locality:
Geo. Locality:
Elements Preserved:: Two upper tusks, probably of the same individual.
Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

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

Bed:: I
Level:: lower part, Middle Pleistocene
In Situ:: Unknown
Stratigraphic Horizon:: Kamasian Pluvial

Contact CODI about this Specimen

Name*
First Last
Email*
Desired username
If you would like to join CODI to be able to comment, please fill this in.
Specimen*
Comment*
Name
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.