Excavation/Discovery Date:

1957

ID By:

130 - L.S.B. Leakey

ID Date:

Research Team:

264 - Leakey family expedition

Repository:

104 - Unknown

Bibilographic Information:

Leakey, L., and Whitworth, T. 1958. Notes on the genus Simopithecus, with a description of a new species from Olduvai.

Curatorial Notes:

This specimen is pictured in plate 4, figure 1; plate 5, figure 1; plate 6, figure 1; plate 8, plate 9, and plate 10. All descriptions of this specimen indicate that the pictured specimen is the holotype. In plate 4, however, the description reads female S. jonathani so it is unclear whether this is the same specimen or not.

OLD 1472

CODI ID:

3694

Arch. Locality:

63 - JLK

Geo. Locality:

Elements Preserved:

MAN, M, P

Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Primates

Suborder:

Anthropoidea

Infraorder:

Haplorhini

Superfamily:

Cercopithecoidea

Family:

Cercopithecidae

Subfamily:

Cynocephalinae

Tribe:

Genus:

Simopithecus

Species:

jonathani

Subspecies:

Taxonomic Notes:

Holotype

Taxonomic Problems: