Excavation/Discovery Date:
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:
Holotype. Formerly Coryndon Museum No. F. 3666.

M. 17090

CODI ID:
10388
Arch. Locality:
Geo. Locality:
Elements Preserved:
A broken fragment of the left side of a mandible with damaged first molar, but with second and third molars intact.
Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Artiodactyla
Suborder:
Suina
Infraorder:
Superfamily:
Suoidea
Family:
Suidae
Subfamily:
Suinae
Tribe:
Suini
Genus:
Mesochoerus
Species:
olduvaiensis
Subspecies:
Taxonomic Notes:
Taxonomic Problems:
Bed:
II
Level:
In Situ:
Unknown
Stratigraphic Horizon:
Kamasian Pluvial

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