Excavation/Discovery Date:
1931
ID By:
130 - L.S.B. Leakey
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 neotype specimen is pictured in plates 81 and 82. The original holotype of M. kattwinkelli (VI-1099) was lost in WWII in Munich.

M. 21447

CODI ID:
181
Arch. Locality:
23 - TK
Geo. Locality:
Elements Preserved:
CRA, L/R-MAX-f, L-HOR, L/R-P, L/R-M, L/R-I
Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Artiodactyla
Suborder:
Ruminantia
Infraorder:
Superfamily:
Bovoidea
Family:
Bovidae
Subfamily:
Alcelaphinae
Tribe:
Alcelaphini
Genus:
Xenocephalus
Species:
kattwinkelli
Subspecies:
Taxonomic Notes:
Neotype - This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Megalotragus kattwinkeli.
Taxonomic Problems:
Bed:
III, IV
Level:
In Situ:
Unknown
Stratigraphic Horizon:
4 feet below Masek Beds

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