- 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