Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... animals concentrated on the floodplain unawares and swept them downstream to be deposited at its mouth , which was then in the vicinity of the present ' E ' Quarry . Animals weakened by starvation or injured by fires were less likely to ...
... animals concentrated on the floodplain unawares and swept them downstream to be deposited at its mouth , which was then in the vicinity of the present ' E ' Quarry . Animals weakened by starvation or injured by fires were less likely to ...
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... animal to approximate to a sphere , giving the most advantageous surface area volume ratio . Geist argues that having ... animals to whom even small discontinuities in the terrain pose large problems of manoeuv- rability . One stage in ...
... animal to approximate to a sphere , giving the most advantageous surface area volume ratio . Geist argues that having ... animals to whom even small discontinuities in the terrain pose large problems of manoeuv- rability . One stage in ...
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... animal possessing a rigid vertebral column : 1. During fast locomotion , momentum would be maintained if the animal ... animals sacrifice some stability for agility . Instead of relying on body proportions and size for stability , they ...
... animal possessing a rigid vertebral column : 1. During fast locomotion , momentum would be maintained if the animal ... animals sacrifice some stability for agility . Instead of relying on body proportions and size for stability , they ...
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3aS and 3aN acrae Aeolidiella Ampelisca Amphipoda Anyskop assemblage Baard's Quarry Baba Barnard bed 3aS Bergh bicuspidata bone Brink buccal cusp Cape Province Cape Town capensis Catriona Cenozoic cerata coast columbiana correlated Coryphella Cragievarus kitchingi crown height deciduous demissum dentary denticles deposits Diademodon dicynodonts digestive branch distal dorsal early Pliocene evidence Family fauna femur Flabellina fossa fossils genus Giraffa sp giraffids gland groove Hendey Hipparion holotype indicate Langebaanweg Langebaanweg area late Miocene late Tertiary lateral lingual mammals Marcus & Marcus marginal ridge maxilla Mesembriportax mesial mesiodistal middle Miocene Miocene muscle Namaqualand Nyanzachoerus occlusal pereopod phosphatic Pleistocene Pliocene posterior present QSM and PPM radular recorded region represented rhinophores river Robertia rows sea-level sediments separated shorelines Sivatherium slightly South Africa South African Museum south-western Cape species specimens SUID-AFRIKAANSE MUSEUM surface Tankard taxa teeth terrestrial tooth UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Varswater Formation ventral vertebrates