- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1932
- 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:
- The label indicates Bed I but Bed II is written on the specimen and in the register according to the authors.
M. 21449
- CODI ID:
- 149
- Arch. Locality:
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- R-HOR-f
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Ruminantia
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Bovoidea
- Family:
- Bovidae
- Subfamily:
- Hippotraginae
- Tribe:
- Hippotragini
- Genus:
- Hippotragus
- Species:
- equinus
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- This specimen was reclassified by Gentry and Gentry (1978) as Hippotragus gigas. It may be a female H. gigas rather than a male H. equinus.
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- I or II
- Level:
- In Situ:
- No
- Stratigraphic Horizon: