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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... infaunal bivalves . Such an assemblage is interpreted as representing the restrictive conditions of an intertidal flat environment . Introduction . Stratigraphy Sedimentary facies Fauna Palaeoecology Age Conclusions References Analysis ...
... infaunal bivalves . Such an assemblage is interpreted as representing the restrictive conditions of an intertidal flat environment . Introduction . Stratigraphy Sedimentary facies Fauna Palaeoecology Age Conclusions References Analysis ...
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... infaunal deposit feeders or semi - infaunal suspension feeders ( Stanley 1968 ) . In Silurian and Devonian rocks they are commonly associated with Lingula in shallow nearshore habitats , although they did range into deeper shelf waters ...
... infaunal deposit feeders or semi - infaunal suspension feeders ( Stanley 1968 ) . In Silurian and Devonian rocks they are commonly associated with Lingula in shallow nearshore habitats , although they did range into deeper shelf waters ...
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... infaunal bivalve community . Benthic assemblage 2 contains a number of lowdiversity brachiopod communities including a Tropidoleptus community . Benthic assemblage 3 contains a high - diversity chonetid community , and a high ...
... infaunal bivalve community . Benthic assemblage 2 contains a number of lowdiversity brachiopod communities including a Tropidoleptus community . Benthic assemblage 3 contains a high - diversity chonetid community , and a high ...
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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