Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... remains apparently took place when this area was inundated during floods ( Hendey 1974a : 351-352 ; 1976a : 223-225 ) . An impression gained during field and laboratory work was that the body part representation of vertebrates varied ...
... remains apparently took place when this area was inundated during floods ( Hendey 1974a : 351-352 ; 1976a : 223-225 ) . An impression gained during field and laboratory work was that the body part representation of vertebrates varied ...
Page 86
... remains of a single individual were subsequently found in the QSM ( Hendey 1976a ) , and since then fragmentary remains of a second species have turned up on several occasions in beds 3aS and 3aN . The problem with taphonomic factors is ...
... remains of a single individual were subsequently found in the QSM ( Hendey 1976a ) , and since then fragmentary remains of a second species have turned up on several occasions in beds 3aS and 3aN . The problem with taphonomic factors is ...
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... remains come from an ancient river channel , the most probable cause is drowning during flood periods . Giraffid bones far outnumber those of other species in the channel fill , suggesting that the giraffids were particularly prone to ...
... remains come from an ancient river channel , the most probable cause is drowning during flood periods . Giraffid bones far outnumber those of other species in the channel fill , suggesting that the giraffids were particularly prone to ...
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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