Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... position of the sea relative to the estuary . The sea is to the north of the present estuary , which has a north - east to south - west trend , but in QSM times the bar had a more or less east to west trend , with the sea to the south ...
... position of the sea relative to the estuary . The sea is to the north of the present estuary , which has a north - east to south - west trend , but in QSM times the bar had a more or less east to west trend , with the sea to the south ...
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... position in the body . The main retractor muscle was the iliofemoralis . The position of the head of the femur on the anteromedial extremity of the bone is seen as an adaptation for lengthening the stride of the hind limb . The ilium is ...
... position in the body . The main retractor muscle was the iliofemoralis . The position of the head of the femur on the anteromedial extremity of the bone is seen as an adaptation for lengthening the stride of the hind limb . The ilium is ...
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... position of the head on the anteromedial extremity of the femur does suggest in - turning of the bone implicated in the change from a sprawling to a more erect limb position . If the femur of Robertia is compared with that of a ...
... position of the head on the anteromedial extremity of the femur does suggest in - turning of the bone implicated in the change from a sprawling to a more erect limb position . If the femur of Robertia is compared with that of a ...
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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