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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... trace fossil Zoophycos ( Spirophyton ) . The upper , Byenest Krans Member , comprises micaceous pale grey to white ... traces . The Byenest Krans Member WESTERN CAPE EASTERN CAPE WITPOORT FORMATION SWARTRUGGENS FORMATION BLINKBERG FM ...
... trace fossil Zoophycos ( Spirophyton ) . The upper , Byenest Krans Member , comprises micaceous pale grey to white ... traces . The Byenest Krans Member WESTERN CAPE EASTERN CAPE WITPOORT FORMATION SWARTRUGGENS FORMATION BLINKBERG FM ...
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... trace fossils , including burrows , tracks and trails of various kinds , as well as Zoophycos , have been found throughout the Weltevrede Formation , whereas the uppermost part has yielded marine invertebrates . Overlying the Weltevrede ...
... trace fossils , including burrows , tracks and trails of various kinds , as well as Zoophycos , have been found throughout the Weltevrede Formation , whereas the uppermost part has yielded marine invertebrates . Overlying the Weltevrede ...
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... Trace fossils are common throughout the sequence and marine invertebrates were recovered from the topmost cycle . The upward - fining cycles are interpreted as being the products of a tidal - flat environment crossed by meandering tidal ...
... Trace fossils are common throughout the sequence and marine invertebrates were recovered from the topmost cycle . The upward - fining cycles are interpreted as being the products of a tidal - flat environment crossed by meandering tidal ...
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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