Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... probably being summer . However , the rainfall regime was then apparently changing , and the summer - wet / winter - dry pattern was probably more characteristic of the late Miocene than the early Pliocene . This possiblity , together ...
... probably being summer . However , the rainfall regime was then apparently changing , and the summer - wet / winter - dry pattern was probably more characteristic of the late Miocene than the early Pliocene . This possiblity , together ...
Page 251
... probably bring them to a carcass first . These considerations lead to the further suggestion that early Pleistocene hominids , hypothetically relying more heavily on scavenging , would probably produce a bone accumulation in which ...
... probably bring them to a carcass first . These considerations lead to the further suggestion that early Pleistocene hominids , hypothetically relying more heavily on scavenging , would probably produce a bone accumulation in which ...
Page 252
... probably because their bones were particularly susceptible to weathering or to destruction or removal by carnivores before burial . The fact that the Bed 3aN profiles of S. demissum and M. acrae are very similar to those of QSM acrae ...
... probably because their bones were particularly susceptible to weathering or to destruction or removal by carnivores before burial . The fact that the Bed 3aN profiles of S. demissum and M. acrae are very similar to those of QSM acrae ...
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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