- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1960
- ID By:
- 130 - L.S.B. Leakey
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 264 - Leakey family expedition
- Repository:
- 104 - Unknown
- Bibilographic Information:
- Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Curatorial Notes:
- Other specimens are present (Leakey, 1971) but are not described. The cranium and horn cones were found near the base of Bed 2.
OVPP-Tragelaphus 2
- CODI ID:
- 122
- Arch. Locality:
- 6 - FLK NN
- Geo. Locality:
- Elements Preserved:
- CRA, HOR
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Artiodactyla
- Suborder:
- Ruminantia
- Infraorder:
- Superfamily:
- Bovoidea
- Family:
- Bovidae
- Subfamily:
- Bovinae
- Tribe:
- Strepsicerotini
- Genus:
- Strepsiceros
- Species:
- maryanus
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Gentry and Gentry (1978) reclassified this specimen as Tragelaphus strepsiceros maryanus.
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- I
- Level:
- middle
- In Situ:
- Unknown
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- 1, 2, 3