. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. LATE CENOZOIC CARNIVORA OF SOUTH-WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE 229. 13 Length 14 15 -» Decreasing age 16 • Modern Vulpes chama o Swartklip • Elandsfontein D Kromdraai Vulpes pulcher S Swartkrans Fig. 55b. Dimensions of the Mx of modern and fossil Vulpes. The Vulpes which have been recorded from the South African Quaternary are, in descending order of age, as follows: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) V. pattisoni from Taung (Broom 1948), a small species comparable in size to modern V. chama. It is poorly known and largely
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. LATE CENOZOIC CARNIVORA OF SOUTH-WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE 229. 13 Length 14 15 -» Decreasing age 16 • Modern Vulpes chama o Swartklip • Elandsfontein D Kromdraai Vulpes pulcher S Swartkrans Fig. 55b. Dimensions of the Mx of modern and fossil Vulpes. The Vulpes which have been recorded from the South African Quaternary are, in descending order of age, as follows: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) V. pattisoni from Taung (Broom 1948), a small species comparable in size to modern V. chama. It is poorly known and largely excluded from the discussions which follow. A specimen from Swartkrans belonging to a species intermediate in size between V. chama and V. vulpes and which was referred by Ewer (19566) to V. pulcher. The Kromdraai V. pulcher, which is in most respects a little larger than the Swartkrans form. Specimens which are Florisian in age and which are referred to V. chama (see Cooke 1963: Table 7), including those from Swartklip. Modern V. chama. On the assumptions that these five units represent different stages of a single lineage and that the Elandsfontein specimens are Cornelian in age, it follows that 21007 should conform to the sequence in a position intermediate between the V. pulcher holotype and the Florisian V. chama, which is represented locally by the specimens from Swartklip. The characteristics of 21007 were investigated with this in mind. There was apparently an increase in size with time in the Makapanian forms of Vulpes from the small V. pattisoni to the large V. pulcher holotype, with the Swartkrans specimen in an intermediate position. This was followed by a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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