- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1959
- ID By:
- 142 - M. D. Leakey
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 264 - Leakey family expedition
- Repository:
- 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Bibilographic Information:
- Day, MH. 1969. Femoral Fragment of a Robust Australopithecine from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Nature. 22: 230-233.
- Curatorial Notes:
- Proximal end of large left femur missing head, greater and lesser trochanters damaged. Either Lower Bed II or Upper Bed I (Leakey MD, 1971:233). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya.
OH 20
- CODI ID:
- 3735
- Arch. Locality:
- 11 - HWK
- Geo. Locality:
- 289 - 44
- Elements Preserved:
- L-FEM-f
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Primates
- Suborder:
- Anthropoidea
- Infraorder:
- Haplorhini
- Superfamily:
- Hominoidea
- Family:
- Hominidae
- Subfamily:
- Tribe:
- Genus:
- Australopithecus
- Species:
- cf. boisei
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- II or I
- Level:
- Lowermost if Bed II, upper if Bed I
- In Situ:
- No
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- Surface