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. 2017 Oct 5;5:e3868. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3868

Figure 12. Representative hofmeyriid from the late Capitanian or earliest Wuchiapingian of the Karoo Basin, South Africa, compared to other known specimens of Hofmeyria.

Figure 12

SAM-PK-K10525 (A), Hofmeyriidae from the Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone of Lombardskraal, Beaufort West district, Western Cape Province. Specimen shows short, high rostrum, prefrontal-postorbital contact in orbit, anteriorly expanded epipterygoid, and conical, non-serrated/non-carinated maxillary teeth. BP/1/4404 (BP, former Bernard Price Institute, now Evolutionary Studies Institute, Johannesburg) (B), Hofmeyria cf. H. atavus from the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of Matjiesfontein (Highlands), Victoria West district, Northern Cape Province. BP/1/1399 (C), Hofmeyria cf. H. atavus from the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of Driehoeksfontein, Murraysburg district, Western Cape Province. Numbers 14–136 are characters listed in the phylogenetic analysis (see online Supplemental Information 1) followed by the derived state in parentheses corresponding to hofmeyriids or other early whaitsioids. Abbreviations: AZ, Assemblage Zone; PC, postcanine position #.