Excavation/Discovery Date:

1969

ID By:

ID Date:

2012/7/20

Research Team:

264 - Leakey family expedition

Repository:

122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Bibilographic Information:

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Curatorial Notes:

Packed in National Museum in Nairobi, Kenya in box 188 or 189 labeled "Cercopithecidae" for transport to National Museum of History, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Enclosed card reads "Simopithecus - Parts of maxilla and skull. (total of 43 frags.) MRC Bed 4 (S. 116, 126 & 132)." Specimen from same individual as S. 123, which is labeled "MRC IV surface S. 123".

OLD/69 MRC S.132

CODI ID:

8048

Arch. Locality:

39 - MRC

Geo. Locality:

Elements Preserved:

R-MAX, ZYG-f, P, M, C

Sediment/Matrix Adhering:

Taxonomy

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Primates

Suborder:

Anthropoidea

Infraorder:

Haplorhini

Superfamily:

Cercopithecoidea

Family:

Cercopithecidae

Subfamily:

Cynocephalinae

Tribe:

Genus:

Simopithecus

Species:

Subspecies:

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