. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. THE MELKBOS SITE: AN UPPER PLEISTOCENE FOSSIL OCCURRENCE III Table 14 dimensions of melkbos cf. hippotragus sp. teeth and mandible. Height of corpus below Mg Width of corpus below Mg Height of corpus below M^ Width of corpus below M^ Height of corpus below Pg ^V'idth of corpus below Pg. Mb 1 * Measurements at the occlusal surface. X Maximum dimensions near base of crown M. Mc \ bm 1 bm Lbd c32-4* 15-7 (20-8); 15-6 (19-0) c37-5 14-5 (18-0) 15-5 (17-8) P2-Mg alveolar 1 161-7 A giant hippotragine is kno
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. THE MELKBOS SITE: AN UPPER PLEISTOCENE FOSSIL OCCURRENCE III Table 14 dimensions of melkbos cf. hippotragus sp. teeth and mandible. Height of corpus below Mg Width of corpus below Mg Height of corpus below M^ Width of corpus below M^ Height of corpus below Pg ^V'idth of corpus below Pg. Mb 1 * Measurements at the occlusal surface. X Maximum dimensions near base of crown M. Mc \ bm 1 bm Lbd c32-4* 15-7 (20-8); 15-6 (19-0) c37-5 14-5 (18-0) 15-5 (17-8) P2-Mg alveolar 1 161-7 A giant hippotragine is known from the Pleistocene of Africa [Hippotragus gigas Leakey, 1965), and this species is thought to be present in the Elandsfon- tein assemblage. It is possible that the specimen Mb i has affinities with this form. Family Bovidae Tribe ALCELAPHINI cf. Connochaetes sp. A total of six horn core fragments and seven teeth from the assemblage were tentatively assigned to the genus Connochaetes {sensu lato). Attempts to place this material specifically were inconclusive. Family Bovidae Tribe NEOTRAGINI Raphicerns sp. The neotragine group of antelopes is represented in the assemblage by a single poorly preserved horn core (Mb 29). It is indistinguishable in all observa- ble respects from the horn cores of the extant species, R. campestris and R. m^lanotis, both of which occur in the south-w^estern Cape today. Family Bovidae Tribe ANTILOPINI cf. Antidorcas sp. A pair of incomplete horn cores (Mb 177 E and F) were doubtfully ascribed to the genus Antidorcas. Little of the right horn core is preserved and observations were confined to that from the left (Mb 177E). The antero-posterior axis of the horn core is at an angle to the median line of the skull, the orientation in this respect being as in ^. marsupialis. In the verti- cal sense its angulation begins as in ^. marsupialis, but unlike this species it does not curve posteriorly, remaining instead remarkably straight along its entire.
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