- 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