Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... fauna of the Baard's Quarry fluviatile deposits ( = ' lower levels fauna of Hendey 1978a ) also suggested an age close to the Pliocene - Pleistocene boundary , and it has recently become evident that at least one element in this fauna ...
... fauna of the Baard's Quarry fluviatile deposits ( = ' lower levels fauna of Hendey 1978a ) also suggested an age close to the Pliocene - Pleistocene boundary , and it has recently become evident that at least one element in this fauna ...
Page 79
... fauna of the region underwent a radical change in the intervening period . Evidently this change had already been initiated by the early Pliocene . The period of deposition of the Varswater Formation was one of transi- tion , with the ...
... fauna of the region underwent a radical change in the intervening period . Evidently this change had already been initiated by the early Pliocene . The period of deposition of the Varswater Formation was one of transi- tion , with the ...
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... fauna , the related factors of rainfall and temperature must also have played a role . There can be little doubt that the ' E ' Quarry fauna had its origins under tropical rather than temperate conditions , and , consequently , that ...
... fauna , the related factors of rainfall and temperature must also have played a role . There can be little doubt that the ' E ' Quarry fauna had its origins under tropical rather than temperate conditions , and , consequently , that ...
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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