Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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Page 203
... position in the body . The main retractor muscle was the iliofemoralis . The position of the head of the femur on the anteromedial extremity of the bone is seen as an adaptation for lengthening the stride of the hind limb . The ilium is ...
... position in the body . The main retractor muscle was the iliofemoralis . The position of the head of the femur on the anteromedial extremity of the bone is seen as an adaptation for lengthening the stride of the hind limb . The ilium is ...
Page 212
... position relative to the body , and that , on the whole , the muscle pattern of the forelimb and girdle was conservative . However , many of the specialized features of later dicynodonts are already present in the Tapinocephalus Zone ...
... position relative to the body , and that , on the whole , the muscle pattern of the forelimb and girdle was conservative . However , many of the specialized features of later dicynodonts are already present in the Tapinocephalus Zone ...
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... position of the head of the femur ; the short tail ; the large thorax and abdomen : and the digital formula . Many of these characters are as fully developed in Robertia as they are in much later dicynodonts . The lack of elaboration of ...
... position of the head of the femur ; the short tail ; the large thorax and abdomen : and the digital formula . Many of these characters are as fully developed in Robertia as they are in much later dicynodonts . The lack of elaboration of ...
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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