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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... Grahamstown , South Africa ( With 10 figures ) [ Paper presented at the Palaeontological Society of southern Africa Symposium , Cape Town , September 1986 ] ABSTRACT Rare , Middle - Upper Devonian invertebrate fossils are recorded from ...
... Grahamstown , South Africa ( With 10 figures ) [ Paper presented at the Palaeontological Society of southern Africa Symposium , Cape Town , September 1986 ] ABSTRACT Rare , Middle - Upper Devonian invertebrate fossils are recorded from ...
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... Grahamstown , some forty years ago . Theron ( 1962 ) described moulds of the nautiloid Orthoceras and what are possibly bivalve impressions , along with trace fossils , in rocks of the lower Witteberg Group in the Willowmore district ...
... Grahamstown , some forty years ago . Theron ( 1962 ) described moulds of the nautiloid Orthoceras and what are possibly bivalve impressions , along with trace fossils , in rocks of the lower Witteberg Group in the Willowmore district ...
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... Grahamstown ( Fig . 3 ) , shows that the upper part of the Weltevrede Formation displays two distinct facies associations . A lower upward - coarsening sequence consists of interbedded micaceous shales and siltstones displaying ...
... Grahamstown ( Fig . 3 ) , shows that the upper part of the Weltevrede Formation displays two distinct facies associations . A lower upward - coarsening sequence consists of interbedded micaceous shales and siltstones displaying ...
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abbreviated AFRICA articulate brachiopods barrier islands basal Witteberg beds benthic assemblages BENTHIC COMMUNITIES Blinkberg Formation Bokkeveld Group Boucot British Museum Natural carbonaceous shales Chonetes comma cross-bedded delta deposited Devonian rocks environmental External mould facies analysis Falkland Islands fauna 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 Orbiculoidea overlain paratypes parentheses pedicle valve Plectonotus sp punctuation quartz arenite unit registration number ripple cross-laminated sandstone Roman numerals salinity sandstones scientific name sediment SEDIMENTARY FACIES shoreline siltstone and shale Silurian and Devonian SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM specimens Spiriferid 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 vicinity of Touws volume number Wagen Drift Formation wash-over WELTEVREDE FORMATION Fig Western Cape yielded marine invertebrate