Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 97South African Museum, 1985 - Natual history |
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... fauna off the South African coast . In the cruises from 1975 to 1979 the vessel has collected 17 species belonging to 13 genera , 8 of the species recorded for the first time from South African waters . GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION The ...
... fauna off the South African coast . In the cruises from 1975 to 1979 the vessel has collected 17 species belonging to 13 genera , 8 of the species recorded for the first time from South African waters . GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION The ...
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... fauna . RubiƩs ( 1985 ) has recently examined the myctophid fauna off the South West African - Namibian coast , recording a total of 41 species . Twenty - five of these species were taken only from the Valdivia Bank area on the Walvis ...
... fauna . RubiƩs ( 1985 ) has recently examined the myctophid fauna off the South West African - Namibian coast , recording a total of 41 species . Twenty - five of these species were taken only from the Valdivia Bank area on the Walvis ...
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... fauna is , in a broad sense , early middle Miocene in age , i.e. somewhere between 17,2 and 14 m.y. old . Its importance is very great , providing , as it does , the only glimpse of a middle Miocene terrestrial fauna for virtually the ...
... fauna is , in a broad sense , early middle Miocene in age , i.e. somewhere between 17,2 and 14 m.y. old . Its importance is very great , providing , as it does , the only glimpse of a middle Miocene terrestrial fauna for virtually the ...
Contents
The Elandsfontein material | 31 |
The Zululand specimen | 39 |
Acknowledgements | 53 |
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50 m Complex abbreviations Annals anteriorly apelex author's name Avontuur Barnard Benguela body whorl brachial valve brachiopods calvus canines Cape Province Cape Town Carrington & Kensley Ciconia coast columella Concholepas conjoined valves crura cusp deltidial plates deposits depth described Description Shell Diaphus distal dorsal dune early Pleistocene Elandsfontein elongate fauna figures fossil Gastropoda genus Geronticus Gnathopod Haughton Hendey high sea-level hinge Holotype Hondeklip Zone Hottentot Hulley italics Kilburn Lampanyctus Langebaanweg lanternfishes length limnetes loop mandible margin material Megerlia mexicanus Mollusca Myctophidae Myctophum Nafpaktitis nigrescens Ocean outer lip paratypes parentheses pedicle pedicle valve photophore Pliocene posterior postnatal whorls present recorded references region ribs rounded Saldanha Bay scientific name sclerites sculpture separates Skurwerug slightly Smith socket ridges South African Museum species specific name specimens spiral lirae subheadings Synonymy Table Tankard tooth Triphoturus upper USNM valve interior ventral views of conjoined width Xenobrochus