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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... salinity . However , the greater diversity of brachiopods in the Touws River localities would indicate less . stressful salinity conditions . Orbiculoidea may have been planktonic or , more likely , epiplanktonic - attaching to algal ...
... salinity . However , the greater diversity of brachiopods in the Touws River localities would indicate less . stressful salinity conditions . Orbiculoidea may have been planktonic or , more likely , epiplanktonic - attaching to algal ...
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... salinity and exposure to the atmosphere . The more stable infaunal environment permits a somewhat more diverse bivalve fauna to be present . The taxa that dominate the low - diversity communities of benthic assemblages 1 and 2 may also ...
... salinity and exposure to the atmosphere . The more stable infaunal environment permits a somewhat more diverse bivalve fauna to be present . The taxa that dominate the low - diversity communities of benthic assemblages 1 and 2 may also ...
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... salinity tolerance , burrowing behaviour and pedicle regeneration in Lingula anatina ( Brachiopoda , Inarticulata ) . Journal of Paleontology 57 ( 6 ) : 1311-1316 . HILLER , N. & DUNLEVEY , J. N. 1978. The Bokkeveld - Witteberg boundary ...
... salinity tolerance , burrowing behaviour and pedicle regeneration in Lingula anatina ( Brachiopoda , Inarticulata ) . Journal of Paleontology 57 ( 6 ) : 1311-1316 . HILLER , N. & DUNLEVEY , J. N. 1978. The Bokkeveld - Witteberg boundary ...
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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