Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... length ; they are extremely active and bristle their cerata when disturbed . The body is long and slender . The oral tentacles are long and tapered , attaining 12 mm in length in a 26 mm animal . The shorter rhinophores are rugose and ...
... length ; they are extremely active and bristle their cerata when disturbed . The body is long and slender . The oral tentacles are long and tapered , attaining 12 mm in length in a 26 mm animal . The shorter rhinophores are rugose and ...
Page 162
... length - = Cragievarus Fig . 9. Parietal breadth plotted as a function of cranial length in Diademodon . + kitchingi . Scales in millimetre intervals . Note the slight increase in parietal breadth compared to the increase in cranial ...
... length - = Cragievarus Fig . 9. Parietal breadth plotted as a function of cranial length in Diademodon . + kitchingi . Scales in millimetre intervals . Note the slight increase in parietal breadth compared to the increase in cranial ...
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... length ) and then allowing a tail length of 4 cm ( which is the approximate actual length of the tail ) . The surface area : volume ratios obtained are very approxi- mate since Geist's method reduces the form of the animal to a right ...
... length ) and then allowing a tail length of 4 cm ( which is the approximate actual length of the tail ) . The surface area : volume ratios obtained are very approxi- mate since Geist's method reduces the form of the animal to a right ...
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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