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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... ancestor existed at least until late Tertiary times in the SW Pacific region . Table 1 lists the known species of the genus Poseidonamicus , as well as their geological and geographical ranges . The most widely recorded species to date ...
... ancestor existed at least until late Tertiary times in the SW Pacific region . Table 1 lists the known species of the genus Poseidonamicus , as well as their geological and geographical ranges . The most widely recorded species to date ...
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... ancestor is not attractive , because there is no record of Poseidonamicus in the Tertiary of southern Africa . A lineal connection with the Australasian stocks seems the most likely solution , but it may be that P. panopsus or its ancestors ...
... ancestor is not attractive , because there is no record of Poseidonamicus in the Tertiary of southern Africa . A lineal connection with the Australasian stocks seems the most likely solution , but it may be that P. panopsus or its ancestors ...
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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