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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... formations , of which the upper two were placed in the Witteberg Group . The South African Com- mittee for Stratigraphy ( SACS ) ( 1980 ) regarded these two units as being informal members within their Wagen Drift Formation . The lower ...
... formations , of which the upper two were placed in the Witteberg Group . The South African Com- mittee for Stratigraphy ( SACS ) ( 1980 ) regarded these two units as being informal members within their Wagen Drift Formation . The lower ...
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... Wagen Drift Formation is the Blinkberg Formation , an extremely mature quartz arenite unit , which contains some plant fossils . This in turn , is overlain by the Swartruggens Formation , a relatively thick heterolithic unit comprising ...
... Wagen Drift Formation is the Blinkberg Formation , an extremely mature quartz arenite unit , which contains some plant fossils . This in turn , is overlain by the Swartruggens Formation , a relatively thick heterolithic unit comprising ...
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... Wagen Drift Formation and a Frasnian age for the top part of the Weltevrede Formation . This slight age difference is unimportant in explaining the differences in the fauna between the localities described here . As has been pointed out ...
... Wagen Drift Formation and a Frasnian age for the top part of the Weltevrede Formation . This slight age difference is unimportant in explaining the differences in the fauna between the localities described here . As has been pointed out ...
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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