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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... Lingula , which is an infaunal suspension feeder known to be moderately euryhaline and capable of withstanding reduced ... orbiculoid and linguloid brachiopods is a common one in many Silurian and Devonian rocks of nearshore origin ...
... Lingula , which is an infaunal suspension feeder known to be moderately euryhaline and capable of withstanding reduced ... orbiculoid and linguloid brachiopods is a common one in many Silurian and Devonian rocks of nearshore origin ...
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... orbiculoid - linguloid community and an infaunal bivalve community . Benthic assemblage 2 contains a number of low- diversity brachiopod communities including a Tropidoleptus community . Benthic assemblage 3 contains contains a high ...
... orbiculoid - linguloid community and an infaunal bivalve community . Benthic assemblage 2 contains a number of low- diversity brachiopod communities including a Tropidoleptus community . Benthic assemblage 3 contains contains a high ...
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... orbiculoid and linguloid inarticulate brachiopods , Tropidoleptus ( an articulate brachiopod ) , a homalonotid ... Lingula near the top of the formation may indicate shallowing of the water . The different interpretations of the faunal ...
... orbiculoid and linguloid inarticulate brachiopods , Tropidoleptus ( an articulate brachiopod ) , a homalonotid ... Lingula near the top of the formation may indicate shallowing of the water . The different interpretations of the faunal ...
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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