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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... occurred in nearshore . faunas that were characterized by low species diversity usually with no more than five taxa ( Raup & Stanley 1971 : 208 ) . It ... occur in a shallow SEDIMENTARY FACIES IN THE LOWER WITTEBERG GROUP 225 Palaeoecology.
... occurred in nearshore . faunas that were characterized by low species diversity usually with no more than five taxa ( Raup & Stanley 1971 : 208 ) . It ... occur in a shallow SEDIMENTARY FACIES IN THE LOWER WITTEBERG GROUP 225 Palaeoecology.
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... occur in a shallow nearshore setting ( Boucot 1975 ) . Associations of this sort just described were termed communities by Boucot ( 1975 ) , who defined a community as a recurring association of taxa that require the same range of ...
... occur in a shallow nearshore setting ( Boucot 1975 ) . Associations of this sort just described were termed communities by Boucot ( 1975 ) , who defined a community as a recurring association of taxa that require the same range of ...
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... occur in similar facies in the underlying Bokkeveld Group , to suggest a Givetian or Frasnian age for the lower part of the Witteberg Group . Such an age determination agrees well with the suggestion of Cooper ( 1982 , 1986 ) , who used ...
... occur in similar facies in the underlying Bokkeveld Group , to suggest a Givetian or Frasnian age for the lower part of the Witteberg Group . Such an age determination agrees well with the suggestion of Cooper ( 1982 , 1986 ) , who used ...
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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