- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1969
- 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:
- Tobias, PV. 1991. The Skulls, endocasts and teeth of Homo habilis. Cambridge: University Press.
- Curatorial Notes:
- Large unworn right L. M3. "Direct evidence as to the original position of the tooth was ... not obtained but, on the basis of the adhering matrix, which is indistinguishable from the limestone nodules overlying Tuff IF, it can be assumed to have come from the base of Bed II..." (Tobias, 1991:848). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya.
OH 26
- CODI ID:
- 3741
- Arch. Locality:
- 55 - FLK W
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- R-M
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
- Found embedded in small nodule of calcareous concretion.
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Primates
- Suborder:
- Anthropoidea
- Infraorder:
- Haplorhini
- Superfamily:
- Hominoidea
- Family:
- Hominidae
- Subfamily:
- Tribe:
- Genus:
- Australopithecus
- Species:
- boisei
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- I/II See curatorial notes.
- Level:
- Upper
- In Situ:
- No
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- Surface, .6 m below Tuff If at top of Bed I.