Specimens
LH 4
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- Site:
- Laetoli
- Specimen number:
- LH 4
- Lat/Long:
- -3.18, 35.2
- Date min:
- 3,400,000 Bp
- Date max:
- 3,700,000 Bp
- Classifications:
- Australopithecus afarensis
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LH 4 or Laetoli Hominid 4 is the catalogue number of a fossilized mandible which was discovered by Mary Leakey in 1974 from Laetoli, Tanzania.
Mary Leakey and her team, Johanson and White, found between 1974 and 1977 forty-two hominid teeth associated with a jawbone. One of them was LH-4, a fine specimen with nine teeth. White described the fossils, and LH-4 was assigned as the "name-bearer" of the new species.
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