Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... QSM and PPM of the Varswater Formation . The nature of these sediments was dependent on the position of the river channel , which moved northwards as the transgression progressed . The QSM and PPM are by far the best documented deposits ...
... QSM and PPM of the Varswater Formation . The nature of these sediments was dependent on the position of the river channel , which moved northwards as the transgression progressed . The QSM and PPM are by far the best documented deposits ...
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... QSM from the PPM is that the former are non - phosphatic . This is simply explained by the fact that the development of authigenic phosphate did not occur in those facies of the QSM exposed in ' E ' Quarry ( i.e. floodplain , salt marsh ...
... QSM from the PPM is that the former are non - phosphatic . This is simply explained by the fact that the development of authigenic phosphate did not occur in those facies of the QSM exposed in ' E ' Quarry ( i.e. floodplain , salt marsh ...
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... QSM and PPM are probably about 5 million years old , or early Pliocene as the term is presently defined . The river , which was primarily responsible for the deposition of the QSM and PPM sediments , was almost certainly the ...
... QSM and PPM are probably about 5 million years old , or early Pliocene as the term is presently defined . The river , which was primarily responsible for the deposition of the QSM and PPM sediments , was almost certainly the ...
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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