Excavation/Discovery Date:
1931
ID By:
293 - A.T. Hopwood
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 pictured in plates 93 and 94. It was found in the 1931-1932 field season. The locality was not provided.

M. 14688

CODI ID:
215
Arch. Locality:
Geo. Locality:
Elements Preserved:
SKULL, L-HOR, M, P
Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
"pebbly and consolidated sandy matrix of dark colour"

Taxonomy

Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Artiodactyla
Suborder:
Ruminantia
Infraorder:
Superfamily:
Bovoidea
Family:
Bovidae
Subfamily:
Caprinae
Tribe:
Caprini
Genus:
Pultiphagonides
Species:
africanus
Subspecies:
Taxonomic Notes:
Holotype - This specimen was reclassified as Connochaetes africanus by Gentry and Gentry (1978).
Taxonomic Problems:
Bed:
II
Level:
In Situ:
Unknown
Stratigraphic Horizon:

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