- 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: