A new large Bauriamorph from the Cynognathus-zone of South Africa

dc.contributor.author	Brink, A. S.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-12-22T07:34:50Z
dc.date.available	2014-12-22T07:34:50Z
dc.date.issued	1965-12
dc.description	Main article	en_ZA
dc.description.abstract	The specimen forming the subject of this paper is the anterior two-thirds of a very large Bauria skull. It is described as a new species, Bauria robusta. It is pointed out that the skull is perhaps as much as 20 per cent larger than the largest known specimen of Bauria cynops, which in turn is about 15 per cent larger than the average of all other known specimens of the genotype. Many of the measurements are derived from reconstructed figures and if these measurements should prove to be less, the new skull would undoubtedly prove to be proportionally different, in which case its recognition as a new species would be more substantial. The features on which the specimen can at present be recognised as a new species are size, the greater number of cheek teeth (11 as compared with 9 in B. cynops), the weaker canines and the absence of an interpterygoid vacuity.	en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship	None	en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation	None	en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn	0078-8554
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16065
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.publisher	Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research	en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries	None;
dc.subject	Bauriamorph; Cynognathus-zone; Karoo; South Africa	en_ZA
dc.title	A new large Bauriamorph from the Cynognathus-zone of South Africa	en_ZA
dc.type	Article	en_ZA

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