Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... Miocene and probably reached its greatest extent in the late Miocene or early Pliocene . The overall middle Miocene to early Pliocene transgression was interrupted by a brief regressive pulse near the Miocene- Pliocene boundary . Seas ...
... Miocene and probably reached its greatest extent in the late Miocene or early Pliocene . The overall middle Miocene to early Pliocene transgression was interrupted by a brief regressive pulse near the Miocene- Pliocene boundary . Seas ...
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... Miocene , whereas at least during the early stages of the early Pliocene transgression sea temperatures were lower ( see p . 16 ) . In addition , the repeated reworking of previous products of deposition observed by Butzer ( 1973 ) is ...
... Miocene , whereas at least during the early stages of the early Pliocene transgression sea temperatures were lower ( see p . 16 ) . In addition , the repeated reworking of previous products of deposition observed by Butzer ( 1973 ) is ...
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... Miocene , while the post - GM regression is correlated with the world - wide lowering of sea - level which coincided with the glacial maximum in Antarctica during the terminal Miocene ( i.e. between 5,5 and 5 Ma - see Van Couvering et ...
... Miocene , while the post - GM regression is correlated with the world - wide lowering of sea - level which coincided with the glacial maximum in Antarctica during the terminal Miocene ( i.e. between 5,5 and 5 Ma - see Van Couvering et ...
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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