Volume 04 April 1957
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- ItemPalaeontologia africana Volume 4(Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1957-04)
- ItemFossil Bovidae from the Limeworks quarry, Makapansgat, Potgietersrus(The Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1957-04)A short history of palaeontological work in the Makapan Valley is given and the setting of the fossil material is briefly described. Many hundreds of bovid cranial and dental fragments have been recovered, in addition to thousands of bones and bone fragments. The post-cranial material is not considered in the present account. The collection includes a number of species not separable from the living kudu, nyala, eland, Cape buffalo, blue duiker, mountain reedbuck, gemsbok, sassaby, brindled gnu and impala. Known extinct species include cf. Alcelaphus robustus, cf. Pelorocerus helmes and Oreotragus major. A new genus of aberrant Alcelaphine is described as Makapania broomi. Other new species are Cephalophus pricei, Redunca darti, Gazella gracilior, and Phenacotragus vanhoepeni. A feature of the assemblage is the tendency for species to be larger than their living counterparts. The whole described fauna of the deposits is discussed and it is considered that a lower Pleistocene (probably Villafranchian) age is most likely.
- ItemLa faune de rongeurs des grottes a Autralopithèques(The Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1957-04)This is the first of a series to be devoted to the rodent fossils of South African caves. It is mainly concerned with a discussion of the Cricetid genus Mystromys, which forms the dominant element of the rodent fauna. The two sub-species of M. hausleitneri described by Broom are considered to be indistinguishable from each other; the species itself is distinguished by the dimensions of the teeth. The dentition of a new species, Mystromys darti, is fully described and the relations with Petromyscus are discussed.
- ItemA new species of Trigonia from Upper Cretaceous beds near Itongazi river, Natal(The Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1957-04) Little, Jeanne De V.A description is furnished of Trigonia (Scabrotrigonia) itongazi, a new species of Trigonia from the Upper Cretaceous Beds, occurring between the Itongazi and Umkandandhlovu Rivers, Alfred County, Natal. Its characteristic features are discussed. In June 1944 Professor T. W. Gevers came on an occurrence of fossiliferous Upper Cretaceous beds at a locality along the South Coast of Natal between the Itongazi and Umkandandhlovu river mouths. This occurrence was described in 1945 (3). The fossils then collected were identified by the writer. The form listed as Trigonia itongazi sp. nov. is now described below.
- ItemList of genera and species described in this volume(The Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1957-04)None