Excavation/Discovery Date:

1955

ID By:

130 - L.S.B. 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:

In the first publication of these specimens (Leakey, LSB, 1958), Leakey described the teeth as a deciduous lower canine and a left deciduous upper M2. "This view was not shared by Robinson, von Koenigswald and others, who preferred to regard it as either a permanent or a deciduous upper molar of an australopithecine character" (Leakey, MD, 1970:226). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya.

OH 3

CODI ID:

3719

Arch. Locality:

10 - BK

Geo. Locality:

280 - 94

Elements Preserved:

d-C , L-d-M

Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Primates

Suborder:

Anthropoidea

Infraorder:

Haplorhini

Superfamily:

Hominoidea

Family:

Hominidae

Subfamily:

Tribe:

Genus:

Australopithecus

Species:

Subspecies:

Taxonomic Notes:

Referred to as species boisei in Tobias (Olduvai Gorge volume IV, 1991).

Taxonomic Problems: