Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 76The Museum, 1978 - Natual history |
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... east and Southwest African forms of " M. kaiseri " . He concluded that the east African species are more advanced than M. kaiseri and synonymized Metapterodon with Pterodon . Although this material is problematical , Van Valen's opinion ...
... east and Southwest African forms of " M. kaiseri " . He concluded that the east African species are more advanced than M. kaiseri and synonymized Metapterodon with Pterodon . Although this material is problematical , Van Valen's opinion ...
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... east and southern African faunas at that time . The final word on the age of the Arrisdrift fauna has yet to come , but available evidence suggests that it is early middle Miocene , with an inferred date of about 16 m.y. before present ...
... east and southern African faunas at that time . The final word on the age of the Arrisdrift fauna has yet to come , but available evidence suggests that it is early middle Miocene , with an inferred date of about 16 m.y. before present ...
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... east Africa and southern Eurasia . Thus , while a northward movement of primates from east Africa is documented , there is no record of a corresponding movement to the south . To sum up , there is some evidence which suggests that early ...
... east Africa and southern Eurasia . Thus , while a northward movement of primates from east Africa is documented , there is no record of a corresponding movement to the south . To sum up , there is some evidence which suggests that early ...
Contents
The fossil vertebrates from Arrisdrift | 8 |
Age of the occurrence | 32 |
Acknowledgements | 38 |
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abbreviated Adcrocuta Antenna Arrisdrift author's name Basis of pereiopod bicuspidata Bill length bones Cape Town carapace carina carpus Cere structure Chasmaporthetes Cistecephalus Climacoceras collar Contour maps crest Cumacea distal distribution Dorsal spot dorsal view endopod endopodite Euryboas eximia variabilis exopod exopodite fauna female Figure fossil genera genus guinea-fowl Guttera Hemilamprops Hendey holotype humerus Hyaena hyaenids Ictitherium indet kani Kurtén Langebaanweg late Miocene Lateral view M₁ mandible margin maxilla Maxilliped Mellivora middorsal Miocene Nape filoplume outer P₁ pairs Paralamprops paratypes peduncle of uropod Percrocuta pereiopod pleopods Plesiogulo Pliocene plumage plumifera plumose setae postcranial posterior posteriorly propodus pucherani rear length recorded relatively segment setae slender slightly somite South African Museum southern Africa species specimens spines spinules spot barbs subequal in length subspecies SUID-AFRIKAANSE MUSEUM Table talonid Tarso-metatarsus length taxa teeth telson uropod ventral vermiculation Wattle basal width Wattle length Xenopus gilli Xenopus laevis Zool