Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 7South African Museum, 1913 - Natual history |
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Page 13
... seem to show that the deposit belongs to a late stage of the Chalk . ECHINOIDEA . COPTOSOMA CAPENSE , sp . nov . Plate I. , figs . 15-17 . Text - figure 1 . Test of medium size , with sub - circular outline , convex above , flattened ...
... seem to show that the deposit belongs to a late stage of the Chalk . ECHINOIDEA . COPTOSOMA CAPENSE , sp . nov . Plate I. , figs . 15-17 . Text - figure 1 . Test of medium size , with sub - circular outline , convex above , flattened ...
Page 19
... seems to be composed entirely of the remains of small shells , echinids , cup - corals , and various spines . . . . In the upper quarry the limestone is mainly crystalline and hard , and seems to be a mass of shell of mussel type : a ...
... seems to be composed entirely of the remains of small shells , echinids , cup - corals , and various spines . . . . In the upper quarry the limestone is mainly crystalline and hard , and seems to be a mass of shell of mussel type : a ...
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... seems that in our present state of knowledge no satisfactory subdivision of the Uitenhage beds is possible , and that the members of the series are so variably developed that no consistent nomenclature is to be hoped for until detailed ...
... seems that in our present state of knowledge no satisfactory subdivision of the Uitenhage beds is possible , and that the members of the series are so variably developed that no consistent nomenclature is to be hoped for until detailed ...
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... seems to have lain in the fact that none of the fossils could be cor- rectly identified with those of formations studied in other regions , and the facies of the fauna , taken as a whole , did not seem to show such agreement with that ...
... seems to have lain in the fact that none of the fossils could be cor- rectly identified with those of formations studied in other regions , and the facies of the fauna , taken as a whole , did not seem to show such agreement with that ...
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... seems clear that in instituting this com- parison , he made use of some molluscan types little adapted to serve the purposes of a critical correlation , and he was at the same time misled by several quite erroneous identifications . He ...
... seems clear that in instituting this com- parison , he made use of some molluscan types little adapted to serve the purposes of a critical correlation , and he was at the same time misled by several quite erroneous identifications . He ...
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Acanthodiscus adult Ammonites angle aperture Aptian Astarte atherstoni Sharpe baini bank of Sunday's bone breadth Broom carinal characters closely Coega collection comparison conocardiiformis convex costate Cutch Cynodonts d'Orbigny developed diameter dorsal elongated Eriphyla escutcheon Exogyra fauna figure flank flattened fossils frontal genus Geol Geological German East Africa Graaff-Reinet groove Hauterivian height herzogi Holcostephanus holubi imbricata Jurassic keel Kitchin Krauss left valve length less Lower Cretaceous Lycett margin Massospondylus narrow Neocomian Neumayr occur Oolitic Oomia beds ornamentation outline Pareiasaurus Pavlow Pecten Plate posterior posteriorly preserved represented resemblance ribs ridges right valve Rogers and Schwarz rogersi sculpture shell similar slightly South African Museum species specimen spiral stage Stoliczka stowi Sunday's River surface suture Tate Tate's transverse Trigonia Trigonia ventricosa tubercles Uhlig Uitenhage Uitenhage beds Uitenhage Series umbilical umbilicus umbo umbonal region upper W. T. Blanford whorl zoarium Zwartkop's River