Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... example , the activities of predators and scavengers may be revealed by distinctive types of damage and thus provide evidence of trophic relationships , while the condition of specimens may also indicate the nature of depositional ...
... example , the activities of predators and scavengers may be revealed by distinctive types of damage and thus provide evidence of trophic relationships , while the condition of specimens may also indicate the nature of depositional ...
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... example , representatives of the marine environment include sharks , certain birds , the seal , and cetaceans ; freshwater taxa include the otter and the hippopotamus . The majority of the vertebrates are , however , terrestrial forms ...
... example , representatives of the marine environment include sharks , certain birds , the seal , and cetaceans ; freshwater taxa include the otter and the hippopotamus . The majority of the vertebrates are , however , terrestrial forms ...
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... example of a group that had maintained a pattern of representation established during the late Miocene , and which contrasted with that during the Quaternary when the family was less diverse and individual species were more highly ...
... example of a group that had maintained a pattern of representation established during the late Miocene , and which contrasted with that during the Quaternary when the family was less diverse and individual species were more highly ...
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3aS and 3aN acrae Aeolidiella age profiles Agriotherium alcelaphines animals Anyskop assemblage Baba basal breadth bed 3aN Bergh bone bovids Brink buccal cusp Cape Province Cape Town capensis Catriona cerata cervical enamel columbiana Coryphella Cragievarus kitchingi crest crown height deciduous demissum dentary denticles dentition deposits Diademodon dicynodonts digestive branch dorsal early Pliocene elongate evidence facet Family fauna femur Flabellina fossa fossils Gastropoda genus Giraffa sp giraffids gland groove Hendey Hipparion holotype hypocone indicate Langebaanweg Langebaanweg area late Miocene late Tertiary lateral lingual mammals Marcus & Marcus maxilla Mesembriportax mesial mesiodistal Miocene muscle Nyanzachoerus O'Donoghue occlusal Pleistocene Pliocene posterior present QSM and PPM Quarry radular recorded region relatively represented rhinophores Risbec river Robertia rows sea-level separated shorelines Sivatherium Sivatherium hendeyi slightly South Africa South African Museum south-western Cape species specimens surface Tankard taxa teeth terrestrial tooth transgression Varswater Formation ventral vertebrates