Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... Sivatherium hen- deyi , Giraffa sp . , and Ceratotherium praecox presumably reflect the populations from which they were drawn , the normal shape of the basal breadth distributions supports taxonomic homogeneity in each case and ...
... Sivatherium hen- deyi , Giraffa sp . , and Ceratotherium praecox presumably reflect the populations from which they were drawn , the normal shape of the basal breadth distributions supports taxonomic homogeneity in each case and ...
Page 249
... Sivatherium and 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 ...
... Sivatherium and 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 ...
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... Sivatherium nor the 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 ...
... Sivatherium nor the 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 ...
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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