Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1993 - Natural history |
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... premaxilla . Broom distinguished male and female skulls , noting that the male skulls are bigger than those of the females , due to the much larger snouts of the former . The males were considered to have tusks ; the females no or ...
... premaxilla . Broom distinguished male and female skulls , noting that the male skulls are bigger than those of the females , due to the much larger snouts of the former . The males were considered to have tusks ; the females no or ...
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... premaxilla ( see Fig . 2 ) . The palatine bone does not usually run anteriorly to contact the premaxilla as it does in Diictodon grossarthi . This seems then to be a distinctive feature of Diictodon grossarthi . The type is from the ...
... premaxilla ( see Fig . 2 ) . The palatine bone does not usually run anteriorly to contact the premaxilla as it does in Diictodon grossarthi . This seems then to be a distinctive feature of Diictodon grossarthi . The type is from the ...
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... premaxilla suture , bosses , and canine tusks , none of these is useful for delimiting species , as discussed above . CONCLUSION Since no reliable specific characters can be found , it is not possible to justify the 20 different species ...
... premaxilla suture , bosses , and canine tusks , none of these is useful for delimiting species , as discussed above . CONCLUSION Since no reliable specific characters can be found , it is not possible to justify the 20 different species ...
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affected by distortion African Museum sample AMNH Beaufort West District bio-zone Kitching 1977 boss is present Broili & Schröder Broom & Haughton canine tusks caniniform process Cape Province Cistecephalus bio-zone Kitching Cluver & Hotton cover the parietals dentary table Dicynodon Dicynodon-Theriognathus assemblage zone Diictodon galeops Diictodon grossarthi Diictodon jouberti Diictodon psittacops Diictodon sollasi Diictodon specimens Dunedin Quaggafontein 82 elevated preparietal feliceps Owen Fraserburg Fraserburg District genus Diictodon Graaff-Reinet Graaff-Reinet District Hoepen holotype ictidops Broom jouberti Broom jugal Karoo Sequence La-de-da Leeu Kloof 43 Leeukloof Leeu Kloof locality lower jaw maxilla maxillary rim median boss Murraysburg nostrils pineal opening postfrontal postorbital bar premaxilla preorbital preparietal previous authors Pristerognathus-Diictodon assemblage zone septomaxilla sexual dimorphism Skull and lower skull length skull roof small boss snout sollasi Broom South African Museum SPECIES OF DIICTODON sutural pattern Synonymy Tapinocephalus bio-zone Kitching Tapinocephalus-Bradysaurus assemblage zone Tropidostoma-Endothiodon assemblage zone tusks variability Victoria West District von Huene