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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... bones belonging to about 46 different taxa ( D. Matthiesen pers . comm . ) , only 57 bones have been assigned to the family Coliidae . These are none the less important because the fossil record of this family is poor . The only other ...
... bones belonging to about 46 different taxa ( D. Matthiesen pers . comm . ) , only 57 bones have been assigned to the family Coliidae . These are none the less important because the fossil record of this family is poor . The only other ...
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... Bones that are almost complete include one humerus , two ulnae , three carpometacarpi , one phalanx I of digit II and one femur . Reports on other fossil birds from Olduvai Gorge include those of Brodkorb & Mourer - Chauviré ( 1982 ...
... Bones that are almost complete include one humerus , two ulnae , three carpometacarpi , one phalanx I of digit II and one femur . Reports on other fossil birds from Olduvai Gorge include those of Brodkorb & Mourer - Chauviré ( 1982 ...
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abbreviations Africa anconal view archiaci author's name Ballmann bicuspidata blue-naped mousebird Brodkorb Carpal tuberosity Carpometacarpi CARPOMETACARPUS characters separate Coliidae Coliiformes Colius cf consobrinus coracohumeral surface coracoid defined by variables e.g. group Eocene extant external condyle external cotyla facet relatively Figure fossil bird fossil mousebirds fossil species fossil specimen furcular facet Gastropoda genus Colius Fig group 4 Colius hendeyi Fig holotype humerus Internal condyle relatively internal view Langebaanweg leucocephalus Fig living and fossil maximum distal width maximum proximal width measurements mensural data metacarpal minimum shaft width morphological Mourer-Chauviré MPW and MDW OLD FLK NNI Olduvai Gorge olecranon palmar view paludicolus palustris Phalanx Pierce Brodkorb Primocolius proximal view range n mean Rich & Haarhoff rotular crest seven species South African Museum species of Colius species of living species of mousebirds sternal end striatus Fig Synonymy TANZANIA Tibiotarsi trochlea ulna unsexed Urocolius indicus Urocolius macrourus Urocolius sp