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:
Taxonomic Notes:
Taxonomic Problems:
Bed:
IV
Level:
In Situ:
Unknown
Stratigraphic Horizon:
Surface

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