- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1935
- 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 holotype was found at the junction of Beds 3 and 4. It is pictured in plates 49 and 50. [This species is documented at SHK II, FLK N I, and BK II (Leakey, 1971).]
M. 21451
- CODI ID:
- 128
- Arch. Locality:
- 18 - VEK
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- CRA-f, R-HOR-f
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Ruminantia
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Bovoidea
- Family:
- Bovidae
- Subfamily:
- Bovinae
- Tribe:
- Bovini
- Genus:
- Gorgon
- Species:
- olduvaiensis
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Holotype - Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Connochaetes taurinus olduvaiensis.
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- III, IV
- Level:
- In Situ:
- Yes
- Stratigraphic Horizon: