- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1963
- ID By:
- 154 - Leakey and Leakey
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 264 - Leakey family expedition
- Repository:
- 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Bibilographic Information:
- Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Curatorial Notes:
- One canine, two molars. Canine is worn, molars are upper molars. "The teeth are exceedingly robust and show an unusual degree of wear. They were not found in close association; one molar and the canine lay approximately I ft. "Qelow the top of the tuff in which they occurred, whilst the second molar was 4 ft. distant and 1 ft. deeper in the deposit" (Leakey MD, 1971:232). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. 7 pieces found at House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
OH 15
- CODI ID:
- 3730
- Arch. Locality:
- 27 - MNK
- Geo. Locality:
- 287 - 88 "Skull Site"
- Elements Preserved:
- C , M
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Primates
- Suborder:
- Anthropoidea
- Infraorder:
- Haplorhini
- Superfamily:
- Hominoidea
- Family:
- Hominidae
- Subfamily:
- Homininae
- Tribe:
- Hominini
- Genus:
- Homo
- Species:
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- II
- Level:
- Lower Middle
- In Situ:
- Yes
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- Above level of OH 13.