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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... suggest that throughout its stratigraphic range ( at least back to the Ordovician ) , it occurred in nearshore . faunas that were characterized by low species diversity usually with no more than five taxa ( Raup & Stanley 1971 : 208 ) ...
... suggest that throughout its stratigraphic range ( at least back to the Ordovician ) , it occurred in nearshore . faunas that were characterized by low species diversity usually with no more than five taxa ( Raup & Stanley 1971 : 208 ) ...
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... suggest that the fossils represent an intertidal environment . Figure 10 is a cartoon reconstruction of the environment envisaged for the Howison's Poort site . In contrast , the brachiopod fauna from the Western Cape localities would ...
... suggest that the fossils represent an intertidal environment . Figure 10 is a cartoon reconstruction of the environment envisaged for the Howison's Poort site . In contrast , the brachiopod fauna from the Western Cape localities would ...
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... 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 eustatic sea - level changes to effect a correlation with ...
... 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 eustatic sea - level changes to effect a correlation with ...
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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
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| Title | Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum Volume 99, Issue 7 of Annals of the South African Museum, South African Museum |
| Author | South African Museum |
| Publisher | West, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Jul 2016 |
| ISBN | 086813113X, 9780868131139 |
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