Excavation/Discovery Date:

1968

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:

Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Curatorial Notes:

Left mandible fragment with P4-M2. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. Bed IV in Leakey (1971), referred to as having derived from Masek Beds in other publications (e.g., Millard, 2009).

OH 23

CODI ID:

3738

Arch. Locality:

5 - FLK

Geo. Locality:

Elements Preserved:

L-MAN-f , L-P , L-M ,

Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Primates

Suborder:

Anthropoidea

Infraorder:

Haplorhini

Superfamily:

Hominoidea

Family:

Hominidae

Subfamily:

Homininae

Tribe:

Hominini

Genus:

Homo

Species:

erectus

Subspecies:

Taxonomic Notes:

Taxonomic Problems: