. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 10 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM of typical east African M. oswaldi. This was one of the features which Stromer (1926) claimed characterized M. doederleini. Whitworth (1954) found that M. doederleini fell within the size variation observed in east African M. oswaldi, but since Arrisdrift provides a second sample of specimens from the Namib in which the teeth are comparatively small, there may be a taxonomically significant mean difference between the Myohyrax from the two regions. In addition, s
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 10 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM of typical east African M. oswaldi. This was one of the features which Stromer (1926) claimed characterized M. doederleini. Whitworth (1954) found that M. doederleini fell within the size variation observed in east African M. oswaldi, but since Arrisdrift provides a second sample of specimens from the Namib in which the teeth are comparatively small, there may be a taxonomically significant mean difference between the Myohyrax from the two regions. In addition, since examination of the Arrisdrift Myohyrax during the present study was cursory, the material may differ from typical M. oswaldi in characters other than size. The Arrisdrift Myohyrax is evidently younger than any previously recorded myohyracine (see p. 32), and this is another factor to be taken into account when the material is studied in detail. ORDER CARNIVORA Although poorly represented, the only identifiable carnivores from Arrisdrift are Carnivora rather than Creodonta. It is, however, possible that certain non-diagnostic specimens such as isolated canines and postcranial bones do belong to creodonts, a group whose presence is to be expected in view of the apparent age of the Arrisdrift assemblage (see p. 35). Family Amphicyonidae Amphicyon cf. steinheimensis Fraas, 1885 An incomplete left mandible (AD 133) belongs to an amphicyonid (Fig. 3, Table 3). There are also several postcranial bones which may belong to this. 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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