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RHOI-supported the Lower Laetolil research project as a contextual project.

The faunal list below is derived from Harris (in Leakey and Harris, Eds., 1987) and Harrison and Msuya (2005).

 

PISCES
   Pisces gen. et sp. indet.

REPTILES
   Crocodylus sp.

AVES
   Galliformes
   Phasianidae
      Francolinus sp., large species
      Francolinus sp., small species
      cf. Francolinus
   Numididae  
      Numida sp.
   Struthio kakesiensis

MAMMALIA
   Rodentia gen. et sp. indet.
   Serengetilagus sp.
   Viverridae gen. et sp. indet.
   Hyaenidae gen. et sp. indet.
   Anancus kenyensis
   Loxodonta sp.
   Ceratotherium praecox
   Hipparion sp.
   Suidae gen. et sp. indet.
   Sivatherium maurusium
   Giraffa stillei    ?Hippotragini sp.
   Alcelaphini sp. (large)
   Alcelaphini sp. (small)
   ?Raphicerus sp.
   Madoqua avifluminis
   Gazella janenschi
   Gazella aff. granti