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The specimens represent a number of shallow - water communities similar to those recognized in Silurian and Devonian rocks from other parts of the world . At a single locality near the top of the Weltevrede Formation near Grahamstown ...
The specimens represent a number of shallow - water communities similar to those recognized in Silurian and Devonian rocks from other parts of the world . At a single locality near the top of the Weltevrede Formation near Grahamstown ...
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In Silurian and Devonian rocks they are commonly associated with Lingula in shallow nearshore habitats , although they did range into deeper shelf waters ( Copper 1977 ) . Another common association in Silurian and Devonian rocks is ...
In Silurian and Devonian rocks they are commonly associated with Lingula in shallow nearshore habitats , although they did range into deeper shelf waters ( Copper 1977 ) . Another common association in Silurian and Devonian rocks is ...
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... low intertidal zones respectively ( Boucot 1975 ) ; benthic assemblages 3 , 4 and 5 represent increasingly deep subtidal areas on the continental shelf , and benthic assemblage 6 represents deeper water beyond the local shelf edge .
... low intertidal zones respectively ( Boucot 1975 ) ; benthic assemblages 3 , 4 and 5 represent increasingly deep subtidal areas on the continental shelf , and benthic assemblage 6 represents deeper water beyond the local shelf edge .
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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