Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... evidence of past high sea - levels over wide areas in the south - western Cape may be difficult to detect . In those areas where bedrock rose steeply into hills and mountains , both on the mainland and on the islands , older and higher ...
... evidence of past high sea - levels over wide areas in the south - western Cape may be difficult to detect . In those areas where bedrock rose steeply into hills and mountains , both on the mainland and on the islands , older and higher ...
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... evidence for this concerns the greater development of the maxillo - turbinals in the bed 3aN population of H. capensis ( De Muizon & Hendey 1980 : 123 ) . This adaptation to low sea and ambient air temperatures may either reflect a ...
... evidence for this concerns the greater development of the maxillo - turbinals in the bed 3aN population of H. capensis ( De Muizon & Hendey 1980 : 123 ) . This adaptation to low sea and ambient air temperatures may either reflect a ...
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... evidence for the presence of fynbos vegetation types . However , woodland browsers still formed a significant element in the mammalian fauna , although dental abnormalities indicate stresses in these populations which might have been ...
... evidence for the presence of fynbos vegetation types . However , woodland browsers still formed a significant element in the mammalian fauna , although dental abnormalities indicate stresses in these populations which might have been ...
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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