Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... Giraffa sp . , Simatherium demissum , and Mesembriportax acrae in the Quartzose Sand Member and Bed 3aN of the Pelletal Phosphorite Member , ' E ' Quarry , Langebaanweg . The measurements are defined in Figures 2 to 6 and presented in ...
... Giraffa sp . , Simatherium demissum , and Mesembriportax acrae in the Quartzose Sand Member and Bed 3aN of the Pelletal Phosphorite Member , ' E ' Quarry , Langebaanweg . The measurements are defined in Figures 2 to 6 and presented in ...
Page 243
... species ( Giraffa sp . and especially Sivatherium hendeyi ) where the samples of unworn crowns are reasonably large ( Table 1 ) . Generally speaking , marked sexual dimorphism in size is probably quite rare in ungulate dentitions ( see ...
... species ( Giraffa sp . and especially Sivatherium hendeyi ) where the samples of unworn crowns are reasonably large ( Table 1 ) . Generally speaking , marked sexual dimorphism in size is probably quite rare in ungulate dentitions ( see ...
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... species in the Bed 3aN channel fill because they were more likely than other species to be caught in floods , it would obviously be interesting to know whether flooding was seasonal Fig . 7. Age profiles of Sivatherium hendeyi , Giraffa sp ...
... species in the Bed 3aN channel fill because they were more likely than other species to be caught in floods , it would obviously be interesting to know whether flooding was seasonal Fig . 7. Age profiles of Sivatherium hendeyi , Giraffa sp ...
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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