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 Paleont- ology 57 ( 6 ) : 1311-1316 . HILLER , N. & Dunlevey , J. N. 1978. The Bokkeveld - Witteberg ...
... salinity tolerance , burrowing behaviour and pedicle regeneration in Lingula anatina ( Brachiopoda , Inarticulata ) . Journal of Paleont- ology 57 ( 6 ) : 1311-1316 . HILLER , N. & Dunlevey , J. N. 1978. The Bokkeveld - Witteberg ...
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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