Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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Page 173
... to have been the largest cusp . The paracone is larger than the metacone . The relative size of the hypocone cannot be ascertained . Occlusal wear is heavy . The entire lingual half of NEW JUVENILE AUSTRALOPITHECUS FROM STERKFONTEIN 173.
... to have been the largest cusp . The paracone is larger than the metacone . The relative size of the hypocone cannot be ascertained . Occlusal wear is heavy . The entire lingual half of NEW JUVENILE AUSTRALOPITHECUS FROM STERKFONTEIN 173.
Page 177
... hypocone . Occlusal wear is very mild . The protocone and the hypocone show faint enamel faceting ; on the former this is restricted to the distal and distolingual sides of the cusp , whilst the hypocone shows a small facet on its apex ...
... hypocone . Occlusal wear is very mild . The protocone and the hypocone show faint enamel faceting ; on the former this is restricted to the distal and distolingual sides of the cusp , whilst the hypocone shows a small facet on its apex ...
Page 180
... hypocone and the distolingual corner of the crown . This crack is narrow but some enamel has been lost from along its borders . The degree , extent and finer details of occlusal wear shown by this tooth are identical to those evinced by ...
... hypocone and the distolingual corner of the crown . This crack is narrow but some enamel has been lost from along its borders . The degree , extent and finer details of occlusal wear shown by this tooth are identical to those evinced by ...
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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