Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... late Tertiary in age . In addition , the nature of the Langebaanweg fossil assemblages allows for an interpretation of depositional environments which is in good accord with the late Tertiary sea - level movements around southern Africa ...
... late Tertiary in age . In addition , the nature of the Langebaanweg fossil assemblages allows for an interpretation of depositional environments which is in good accord with the late Tertiary sea - level movements around southern Africa ...
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... late Tertiary . By contrast , the mongooses of the early Pliocene were then only in the early stages of their radiation , which was to reach a climax during the Quaternary ( Hendey 1974b ) . Perhaps the best single example of a species ...
... late Tertiary . By contrast , the mongooses of the early Pliocene were then only in the early stages of their radiation , which was to reach a climax during the Quaternary ( Hendey 1974b ) . Perhaps the best single example of a species ...
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... late Tertiary is in keeping with the record elsewhere in the word . This contributed to the correlation of the local succession with others elsewhere in the world ( e.g. the Mediterranean Basin ) , which were also under the influence of ...
... late Tertiary is in keeping with the record elsewhere in the word . This contributed to the correlation of the local succession with others elsewhere in the world ( e.g. the Mediterranean Basin ) , which were also under the influence of ...
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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