Volume 24 1981

Volume 24 1981

 

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  • Palaeontologia africana Volume 24 
    Unknown author (Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1981)
  • Revised stratigraphy of the Beaufort Group in the southern Karoo Basin 
    Turner, B. R. (Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1981)
    The Beaufort Group in the southern Karoo Basin between Graaff-Reinet and Sutherland has been divided into three formations based primarily on the changing ratio of sandstone to mudstone. The former Abrahamskraal Formation ...
  • Fossil hyaenidae from the Makapansgat Limeworks deposit, South Africa 
    Randall, R. M. (Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1981)
    The remains of three hyaena species have been recovered from the Makapansgat Limeworks deposit. A common small form , Hyaena hyaena makapani, and a rare large form, Pachycrocuta brevirostris, were recovered from Member ...
  • A protosuchid crocodilian from the Forest Sandstone Formation (Upper Karoo) of Zimbabwe 
    Raath, M. A. (Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1981)
    A protosuchid crocodilian is reported from the Forest Sandstone Formation (Upper Triassic) of the central Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. It is closely related to known protosuchians from terminal Karoo deposits in South Africa ...
  • Presidential address: taphonomy as an aid to African palaeontology 
    Brain, C. K. (Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1981)
    Palaeontology has its roots in both the earth and life sciences. Its usefulness to geology comes from the light which the understanding of fossils may throw on the stratigraphic relationships of sediments, or the presence ...
  • Hovasaurus boulei, an aquatic eosuchian from the Upper Permian of Madagascar 
    Currie, P. J. (Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1981)
    Hovasaurus is the most specialized of four known genera of tangasaurid eosuchians, and is the most common vertebrate recovered from the Lower Sakamena Formation (Upper Permian, Dzulfian Standard Stage) of Madagascar. The ...