Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... Quarry perissodactyls are palaeoenvironmentally significant since both the rhinoceros and the Hipparion are hyposodont forms , indicating the presence of grasslands , whereas most of the other large herbivores are wood- land browsers ...
... Quarry perissodactyls are palaeoenvironmentally significant since both the rhinoceros and the Hipparion are hyposodont forms , indicating the presence of grasslands , whereas most of the other large herbivores are wood- land browsers ...
Page 83
... Quarry . The group to which it belonged flourished in Eurasia , and perhaps also Africa , during the late Miocene , and ' E ' Quarry may provide a record of its final flowering . There are several instances where descendants of taxa ...
... Quarry . The group to which it belonged flourished in Eurasia , and perhaps also Africa , during the late Miocene , and ' E ' Quarry may provide a record of its final flowering . There are several instances where descendants of taxa ...
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... Quarry , although the evidence for this is more slender . An undescribed hyaenid from Kanapoi is certainly more advanced than its counterparts in the ' E ' Quarry ' Hyaena group ' ( see Hendey 1978c ) . The presence of the pig ...
... Quarry , although the evidence for this is more slender . An undescribed hyaenid from Kanapoi is certainly more advanced than its counterparts in the ' E ' Quarry ' Hyaena group ' ( see Hendey 1978c ) . The presence of the pig ...
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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