Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 - Natural history |
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... faunal assemblages from the two areas accord well with the different interpretations of the containing sedimentary facies . Introduction . Stratigraphy Sedimentary facies Fauna Palaeoecology Age Conclusions References CONTENTS 215 Ann ...
... faunal assemblages from the two areas accord well with the different interpretations of the containing sedimentary facies . Introduction . Stratigraphy Sedimentary facies Fauna Palaeoecology Age Conclusions References CONTENTS 215 Ann ...
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... FAUNA The two localities within the Wagen Drift Formation near Touws River , from which material was collected for ... faunas of Brazil , included the species in Dignomia , presumably on the basis of its relatively large size and thin ...
... FAUNA The two localities within the Wagen Drift Formation near Touws River , from which material was collected for ... faunas of Brazil , included the species in Dignomia , presumably on the basis of its relatively large size and thin ...
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... fauna between the localities described here . As has been pointed out , many of the forms recovered from these ... faunal differences . CONCLUSIONS Rare Middle to Upper Devonian marine invertebrates from a few widespread localities in ...
... fauna between the localities described here . As has been pointed out , many of the forms recovered from these ... faunal differences . CONCLUSIONS Rare Middle to Upper Devonian marine invertebrates from a few widespread localities in ...
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abbreviated AFRICA articulate brachiopods barrier islands benthic assemblages BENTHIC COMMUNITIES bicuspidata Gould bivalves bivalves and possible Blinkberg Formation Bokkeveld Group Boucot British Museum Natural carbonaceous shales Chonetes Chonetid Community comma cross-bedded deeper-water subtidal conditions delta deposited Devonian rocks environmental External mould facies analysis Falkland Islands fauna Formation near Touws Frasnian gastropod genus Givetian Grahamstown high-diversity holotype homalonotid trilobite horizontal lamination Howison's Poort inarticulate infaunal interpreted Leda Lingula lepta LOWER WITTEBERG GROUP Museum Natural History namacolus Orbiculoidea overlain paratypes parentheses pedicle valve punctuation salinity sandstones scientific name sediment SEDIMENTARY FACIES shoreline shouldered italics siltstone and shale Silurian and Devonian SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM specimens Spiriferid Community Stratigraphic subheadings are shouldered suspension feeders SWARTRUGGENS FORMATION Synonymy Tankard & Barwis taxa Theron thin tidal tidal-flat Touws River trace fossils Trigonoglossa Tropidoleptus sp Upper Devonian upward-fining cycles Wagen Drift Formation wash-over Weltevrede Formation Western Cape Witpoort Formation yielded marine invertebrate