Excavation/Discovery Date:

ID By:

ID Date:

2012/07/31

Research Team:

264 - Leakey family expedition

Repository:

122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Bibilographic Information:

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Curatorial Notes:

Fragments of right foot bones including navicular, cuneiform, intermediate pedal phalanges and proximal half of fifth metatarsal. If specimen labeled (on navicular) is "MCK II"(as opposed to MCK I), specimen may belong with cards found in stack 067/5614, 0617-20 and if so this is a Simopithecus oswaldi type specimen.

MCK I? Simo

CODI ID:

8175

Arch. Locality:

80 - MCK

Geo. Locality:

Elements Preserved:

CUBNAV, PHX, MTT-f, CUNE

Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Primates

Suborder:

Anthropoidea

Infraorder:

Haplorhini

Superfamily:

Cercopithecoidea

Family:

Cercopithecidae

Subfamily:

Cynocephalinae

Tribe:

Genus:

Simopithecus

Species:

Subspecies:

Taxonomic Notes:

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