Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1994 - Natural history |
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... World genus Podilymbus , but are sufficiently different to be tentatively referred to the widespread genus Podiceps . These fossils represent a new , extinct lineage of grebes for Africa . A single fossil of a button - quail is most ...
... World genus Podilymbus , but are sufficiently different to be tentatively referred to the widespread genus Podiceps . These fossils represent a new , extinct lineage of grebes for Africa . A single fossil of a button - quail is most ...
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... World pied - billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps ( see Storer 1976 ) . The relative robustness of the shaft is greater than in any of those species and the width of the distal end of the other humeral specimen exceeds that of any of the 38 ...
... World pied - billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps ( see Storer 1976 ) . The relative robustness of the shaft is greater than in any of those species and the width of the distal end of the other humeral specimen exceeds that of any of the 38 ...
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... World species C. alcyon or Chloroceryle amazona . The proportions of the tarsometatarsus are intermediate between the very short , stout bone of Ceryle alcyon and the more elongate tarsometatarsus in Chloroceryle amazona . EARLY ...
... World species C. alcyon or Chloroceryle amazona . The proportions of the tarsometatarsus are intermediate between the very short , stout bone of Ceryle alcyon and the more elongate tarsometatarsus in Chloroceryle amazona . EARLY ...
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12 Proximal width abbreviated anconal view BUTTON-QUAIL CAPE PROVINCE Cape Town capensis fossils CARPOMETACARPUS Ceryle sp chronological condyle Coraciiformes CORACOID dabchick Distal end EARLY PLIOCENE GREBES end of right FEMUR fossils from Langebaanweg Gastropoda Gruiformes Halcyon sp Halcyonidae Hendey holotype Humeri in anconal KINGFISHERS FROM SOUTH-WESTERN lacking proximal Langebaan Langebaanweg compared Leda Length 12 Proximal lineage Material Genus Member Bed 3aS minimum number modern species namacolus nigricollis number of individuals number of specimens Olson paratypes parentheses Pelletal Phosphorite Member Phosphorite Member Bed podiceps USNM Podicipedidae poggei posterior view provenance Early Pliocene Proximal width 12 punctuation Quartzose Sand Member references Remarks This specimen robust Roman numerals scientific name separate author's name shouldered italics skeletons South African Museum species of Halcyon specimens and minimum Storer Stratigraphic provenance Early subheadings are shouldered subspecies Tachybaptus ruficollis tarsometatarsus taxa Tibiotarsus total number trochlea Turnix hottentotta Varswater Formation volume number width 12 Distal