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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... represent a number of shallow - water communities similar to those ... representing the restrictive conditions of an intertidal flat environment . Analysis of the sedimentary facies ... Witteberg Group , topmost division of the tripartite.
... represent a number of shallow - water communities similar to those ... representing the restrictive conditions of an intertidal flat environment . Analysis of the sedimentary facies ... Witteberg Group , topmost division of the tripartite.
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... Witteberg Group represents a nearshore setting , possibly with fluctuating salinity . However , the greater ... mean that it could turn up in almost any shallow marine habitat but the association of orbiculoid and linguloid brachiopods ...
... Witteberg Group represents a nearshore setting , possibly with fluctuating salinity . However , the greater ... mean that it could turn up in almost any shallow marine habitat but the association of orbiculoid and linguloid brachiopods ...
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... Witteberg Group has made dating of the rocks rather difficult . Fish remains ... represent a number of benthic communities similar to those recorded from ... represent a prograding delta and its shales were deposited in a delta slope ...
... Witteberg Group has made dating of the rocks rather difficult . Fish remains ... represent a number of benthic communities similar to those recorded from ... represent a prograding delta and its shales were deposited in a delta slope ...
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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