Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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Page 164
... tooth in the right maxilla ; this region on the left side is damaged . Because of the relatively small diameters of these two alveoli , it seems reasonable to assume , as did Brink , that they contained conical teeth . On the right side ...
... tooth in the right maxilla ; this region on the left side is damaged . Because of the relatively small diameters of these two alveoli , it seems reasonable to assume , as did Brink , that they contained conical teeth . On the right side ...
Page 165
... tooth long since lost , and this distance is reflected in the figures , but as there is no sign of the canine on either side , the diasteme may in fact be longer . It cannot possibly be shorter . This is a very conspicuous diagnostic ...
... tooth long since lost , and this distance is reflected in the figures , but as there is no sign of the canine on either side , the diasteme may in fact be longer . It cannot possibly be shorter . This is a very conspicuous diagnostic ...
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... tooth is replaced by a permanent tooth . For a permanent tooth , the chronological age of complete crown reduction is the age past which no individuals survive in the wild , sometimes known as ' potential ecological longevity ' . The ...
... tooth is replaced by a permanent tooth . For a permanent tooth , the chronological age of complete crown reduction is the age past which no individuals survive in the wild , sometimes known as ' potential ecological longevity ' . The ...
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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