- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 2009
- ID By:
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 292 - Proyecto Olduvai
- Repository:
- 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Bibilographic Information:
- Domínguez-Rodrigo M, et al. 2013. First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80347.
- Curatorial Notes:
- Distal portion of a left humerus diaphysis. Partial right radius with head, proximal metaphysis and partial diaphysis. Right partial femur, diaphysis in three refitting pieces. Tibia midshaft fragment assigned to OH 80 based on close "spatial association, comparable anatomical ruggedness and similar state of preservation to the other OH 80 postcranial fossils" (Dominiguez-Rodrigo et al., 2013).
OH 80
- CODI ID:
- 3796
- Arch. Locality:
- 10 - BK
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- R/L-P , L-M , R/L-I , L-HUM-f , R-RAD-f , R-FEM-f , TIB-f
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Primates
- Suborder:
- Anthropoidea
- Infraorder:
- Haplorhini
- Superfamily:
- Hominoidea
- Family:
- Hominidae
- Subfamily:
- Homininae
- Tribe:
- Hominini
- Genus:
- Australopithecus
- Species:
- boisei
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Anatomically modern
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- II
- Level:
- 4
- In Situ:
- Yes
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- Upper