Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... late Cenozoic have been much more thoroughly documented , while the complexities imposed by tectonic instability ... late Tertiary in age . In addition , the nature of the Langebaanweg fossil assemblages allows for an interpretation of ...
... late Cenozoic have been much more thoroughly documented , while the complexities imposed by tectonic instability ... late Tertiary in age . In addition , the nature of the Langebaanweg fossil assemblages allows for an interpretation of ...
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... late Pliocene regression . The 20 m shoreline is problematical , having been deve- loped either during a second stillstand in the late Pliocene regression , or at the climax of the subsequent early Pleistocene transgression . The ...
... late Pliocene regression . The 20 m shoreline is problematical , having been deve- loped either during a second stillstand in the late Pliocene regression , or at the climax of the subsequent early Pleistocene transgression . The ...
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... late Miocene , and which contrasted with that during the Quaternary when the family was less diverse and individual species were more highly specialized ( Hendey 1978c ) . The larger felids from ' E ' Quarry are all sabre - toothed ...
... late Miocene , and which contrasted with that during the Quaternary when the family was less diverse and individual species were more highly specialized ( Hendey 1978c ) . The larger felids from ' E ' Quarry are all sabre - toothed ...
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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