Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... transgression ; the 30 m shoreline ( GM ) in ' E ' Quarry dates from the middle to late Miocene regression : the 90 m shoreline represents the climax of the early Pliocene transgression , with a large proportion of the deposits in the ...
... transgression ; the 30 m shoreline ( GM ) in ' E ' Quarry dates from the middle to late Miocene regression : the 90 m shoreline represents the climax of the early Pliocene transgression , with a large proportion of the deposits in the ...
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... transgression- regression - transgression ' over a prolonged period , rather than a shorter period of ' transgression - stillstand - renewed transgression ' , was the key to the correla- tion of the ' E ' Quarry succession with certain ...
... transgression- regression - transgression ' over a prolonged period , rather than a shorter period of ' transgression - stillstand - renewed transgression ' , was the key to the correla- tion of the ' E ' Quarry succession with certain ...
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... transgression , there is as yet no consensus on the timing and duration of this event . On the basis of evidence from the Mediterranean Basin , Van Couvering et al . ( 1976 ) and Van Couvering & Berggren ( 1977 ) indicate that this ...
... transgression , there is as yet no consensus on the timing and duration of this event . On the basis of evidence from the Mediterranean Basin , Van Couvering et al . ( 1976 ) and Van Couvering & Berggren ( 1977 ) indicate that this ...
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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