Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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Page 237
... profiles in which those classes most prone to death by predation , etc. — the very young and the old are disproportionately well represented compared to their initial live abundance . Mortality profiles reflecting death from an agency ...
... profiles in which those classes most prone to death by predation , etc. — the very young and the old are disproportionately well represented compared to their initial live abundance . Mortality profiles reflecting death from an agency ...
Page 249
... profiles resemble each other and differ from those of the other species , which are , however , similar to each other . The catastrophic shape of the Sivatherium and Giraffa mortality profiles clearly suggests that the individuals ...
... profiles resemble each other and differ from those of the other species , which are , however , similar to each other . The catastrophic shape of the Sivatherium and Giraffa mortality profiles clearly suggests that the individuals ...
Page 252
... profiles suggests death by natural attrition ( from predation , endemic disease , etc. ) . though individuals in the first 10 per cent of lifespan are under - represented v . their probable level of natural mortality . This is probably ...
... profiles suggests death by natural attrition ( from predation , endemic disease , etc. ) . though individuals in the first 10 per cent of lifespan are under - represented v . their probable level of natural mortality . This is probably ...
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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