Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... Giraffa dental samples , as reflected in relatively small coefficients of variation ( Table 1 ) , suggests that ' contamination by Palaeotragus is probably very limited . A more serious possibility of taxonomic mixture exists in the Bed ...
... Giraffa dental samples , as reflected in relatively small coefficients of variation ( Table 1 ) , suggests that ' contamination by Palaeotragus is probably very limited . A more serious possibility of taxonomic mixture exists in the Bed ...
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... Giraffa profiles resemble each other and differ from those of the other species , which are , however , similar to each other . The catastrophic shape of the Sivatherium and Giraffa mortality profiles clearly suggests that the ...
... Giraffa profiles resemble each other and differ from those of the other species , which are , however , similar to each other . The catastrophic shape of the Sivatherium and Giraffa mortality profiles clearly suggests that the ...
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... Giraffa crown height distributions . in Figures 2 and 3 exhibit the kind of multimodality from which seasonality may be reasonably inferred . In the case of the Giraffa distributions , the reason may be relatively small sample size . In ...
... Giraffa crown height distributions . in Figures 2 and 3 exhibit the kind of multimodality from which seasonality may be reasonably inferred . In the case of the Giraffa distributions , the reason may be relatively small sample size . In ...
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abbreviations age profiles alcelaphines Anyskop basal breadth Bed 3aN Bergh bicuspidata bone Brink Broom & Robinson buccal cusp Cape Town cerata cervical enamel prominence cervical margin Coryphella Cragievarus kitchingi crest crown height deciduous dentary denticles dentition deposits Diademodon diameter as measured dicynodonts distal marginal ridge dorsal early Pliocene evidence facet fauna femur Flabellina fossa fossils Gastropoda genus Giraffa Giraffa sp giraffids Grine groove Hendey holotype hypocone iliofemoralis incisal indicated Langebaanweg Langebaanweg area late Miocene late Tertiary lateral mandibular Marcus maxilla maxillary MD diameter mesial mesial marginal ridge mesiodistal Miocene moderately molars muscle occlusal Pleistocene Pliocene posterior present protoconid QSM and PPM Quarry reconstructed from cast recorded relatively represented rhinophores river Robertia Robertia broomiana Scale in cm scapula sea-level separated shorelines Sivatherium Sivatherium hendeyi slightly South Africa South African Museum south-western Cape species specimen synonym Tankard taxa teeth terrestrial THERAPSIDA tooth transgression Varswater Formation ventral vertebrae