- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1960
- ID By:
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 264 - Leakey family expedition
- Repository:
- 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Bibilographic Information:
- Leakey, L.S.B., Tobias, P.V. & Napier, J.R. 1964. A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge. Nature 202(4927): 7-9.
- Curatorial Notes:
- Holotype. "Jonny's Child". Juvenile. Mandible with partial dentition and unerupted R/L-M3, almost complete left parietal and fragments of right parietal, left and right petrous portions (temporal) , "sundry small skull fragments ... [and] twenty-one bones of the hand, including the trapezium, scaphoid and a number of phalanges" (Leakey, MD, 1971:228). "One upper molar, a terminal phalanx, and a broken capitate bone, found on the surface, probably also belong to this individual" (:226). Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya.
OH 7
- CODI ID:
- 3722
- Arch. Locality:
- 6 - FLK NN
- Geo. Locality:
- 283 - 45
- Elements Preserved:
- MAN , L-PAR , R-PAR-f , M , OCC-f , L/R-TEM-f , PHX , CAR
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Primates
- Suborder:
- Anthropoidea
- Infraorder:
- Haplorhini
- Superfamily:
- Hominoidea
- Family:
- Hominidae
- Subfamily:
- Homininae
- Tribe:
- Hominini
- Genus:
- Homo
- Species:
- habilis
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Holotype
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- I
- Level:
- 3
- In Situ:
- Yes
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- On surface of clay immediately overlying Tuff IB.