Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1989 - Natural history |
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... Recent ( southern hemisphere ) , and a possible record in Oligocene of the NE Atlantic ( Table 1 ) . This species occurs in Pleistocene - Recent sediments off south - western Africa , where it has a known depth range 2 070-2 916 m ...
... Recent ( southern hemisphere ) , and a possible record in Oligocene of the NE Atlantic ( Table 1 ) . This species occurs in Pleistocene - Recent sediments off south - western Africa , where it has a known depth range 2 070-2 916 m ...
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... Recent Miocene -- ? Recent Recent Quaternary Quaternary NE Atlantic SW Pacific SW Atlantic SW Indian Benson ( 1972 ) bathyal -- abyssal Benson ( 1972 ) Benson ( 1972 ) SE Atlantic abyssal abyssal Benson ( 1972 ) Recent Recent Recent ...
... Recent Miocene -- ? Recent Recent Quaternary Quaternary NE Atlantic SW Pacific SW Atlantic SW Indian Benson ( 1972 ) bathyal -- abyssal Benson ( 1972 ) Benson ( 1972 ) SE Atlantic abyssal abyssal Benson ( 1972 ) Recent Recent Recent ...
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... recently ( ? late Tertiary ) from other areas ( such as eastern Africa ) . Whatever the case , it is remarkable that sighted species have survived so long apart ( to the Recent in southern Africa , and to at least the Pleistocene in ...
... recently ( ? late Tertiary ) from other areas ( such as eastern Africa ) . Whatever the case , it is remarkable that sighted species have survived so long apart ( to the Recent in southern Africa , and to at least the Pleistocene in ...
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100 microns 1972 Poseidonamicus 250 m water AAIW Abbreviations abundance of Poseidonamicus adult valves Atlantic Deep Water Atlantic SW author's name Bathyal Benson & Peypouquet Campanian Cenozoic N Atlantic Chapman & Shannon continental margin continental shelf continental slope deep-water depth range dissolved oxygen DSDP Eocene eye tubercle Gastropoda genus hinge ears holotype internal ocular sinus juvenile MARGIN OF SOUTH-WESTERN mean mud contents Miocene ml/l Mozambique Channel NADW ocularis Whatley Oligocene Orange Shelf Orange Shelf area ostracod fauna ostracod population paratypes percentage of ostracod Peypouquet 1983 plotted against water Poseidonamicus major Benson Poseidonamicus panopsus sp Poseidonamicus sp Quaternary salinity minimum zone Scale bars scars separated SHALLOW-WATER SPECIES sighted species slope off south-western smoothed 5-point means South African Museum south-western Africa southern Africa species of Poseidonamicus St Helena Bay SW Cape Synonymy Table Tertiary upper depth limit Walvis Bay water depth Water mass Whatley & Coles Whatley et al