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This would suggest that the fossils represent an intertidal environment . Figure 10 is a cartoon reconstruction of the environment envisaged for the Howison's Poort site . In contrast , the brachiopod fauna from the Western Cape ...
This would suggest that the fossils represent an intertidal environment . Figure 10 is a cartoon reconstruction of the environment envisaged for the Howison's Poort site . In contrast , the brachiopod fauna from the Western Cape ...
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In contrast to this , two localities in the Wagen Drift Formation near Touws River have yielded a deeper - water subtidal assemblage dominated by articulate brachiopods , including Australospirifer , Chonetes and Tropidoleptus .
In contrast to this , two localities in the Wagen Drift Formation near Touws River have yielded a deeper - water subtidal assemblage dominated by articulate brachiopods , including Australospirifer , Chonetes and Tropidoleptus .
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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