Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... animals concentrated on the floodplain unawares and swept them downstream to be deposited at its mouth , which was then in the vicinity of the present ' E ' Quarry . Animals weakened by starvation or injured by fires were less likely to ...
... animals concentrated on the floodplain unawares and swept them downstream to be deposited at its mouth , which was then in the vicinity of the present ' E ' Quarry . Animals weakened by starvation or injured by fires were less likely to ...
Page 87
... animal in the ' E ' Quarry sequence is a true reflection of its initial absence ( i.e. in QSM times ) , and its ... animals at Langebaanweg might have differed from that in areas where they did co - exist . Since the local environment ...
... animal in the ' E ' Quarry sequence is a true reflection of its initial absence ( i.e. in QSM times ) , and its ... animals at Langebaanweg might have differed from that in areas where they did co - exist . Since the local environment ...
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... animal to approximate to a sphere , giving the most advantageous surface area volume ratio . Geist argues that having reduced heat loss , such therapsids could maintain a fairly high body temperature without the need to consume vast ...
... animal to approximate to a sphere , giving the most advantageous surface area volume ratio . Geist argues that having reduced heat loss , such therapsids could maintain a fairly high body temperature without the need to consume vast ...
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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