Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... sample sizes . It was the latter factor , together with the need to recover small fossils , that was the motivation in the screening of sediment samples . The screening of small samples usually involved the use of hand - sieves washed ...
... sample sizes . It was the latter factor , together with the need to recover small fossils , that was the motivation in the screening of sediment samples . The screening of small samples usually involved the use of hand - sieves washed ...
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... sample reflects a rapid trend TABLE 1 = Sample size ( N ) , mean ( x ) . standard deviation ( s ) , and coefficient of variation ( V 100s / x ) for measurements of basal breadth and unworn crown height on selected teeth of Ceratotherium ...
... sample reflects a rapid trend TABLE 1 = Sample size ( N ) , mean ( x ) . standard deviation ( s ) , and coefficient of variation ( V 100s / x ) for measurements of basal breadth and unworn crown height on selected teeth of Ceratotherium ...
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... sample is truly homogeneous , basal breadths would probably be normally distributed , since normality is an almost universal characteristic of linear measurements on biological specimens . A significant departure from normality may ...
... sample is truly homogeneous , basal breadths would probably be normally distributed , since normality is an almost universal characteristic of linear measurements on biological specimens . A significant departure from normality may ...
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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