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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Page 437
... genus Poseidonamicus ( P. panopsus sp . nov . ) is recorded living on the continental shelf and upper slope off south - western Africa in water depths between 120 m and 545 m . All previous records of the genus have been from water ...
... genus Poseidonamicus ( P. panopsus sp . nov . ) is recorded living on the continental shelf and upper slope off south - western Africa in water depths between 120 m and 545 m . All previous records of the genus have been from water ...
Page 438
... genus ( now known from Eocene to Recent ) . Despite the fact that Whatley et al . ( 1986 ) described one species with distinct but non - functional ocular structures ( P. ocularis Whatley et al . 1986 ) , all records of the genus to ...
... genus ( now known from Eocene to Recent ) . Despite the fact that Whatley et al . ( 1986 ) described one species with distinct but non - functional ocular structures ( P. ocularis Whatley et al . 1986 ) , all records of the genus to ...
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... genus may be encountered in due course ' . The discovery of the sighted shelf species P. panopsus sp . nov . has justified these expectations , but the present authors admit to surprise that it should have been encountered off the ...
... genus may be encountered in due course ' . The discovery of the sighted shelf species P. panopsus sp . nov . has justified these expectations , but the present authors admit to surprise that it should have been encountered off the ...
Contents
Discussion | 447 |
Family Trachyleberididae SylvesterBradley 1948 | 453 |
Acknowledgements | 456 |
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1972 Poseidonamicus 200 m water AAIW Abbreviations abundance of Poseidonamicus adductors adult valves allochthonous ancestor Antarctic Intermediate Water Atlantic Deep Water Australasia Bathyal Campanian Cenozoic Chapman & Shannon continental margin continental shelf continental slope deep-water depth range Dingle dissolved oxygen dissolved oxygen values dorsal Eocene genus hinge ears holotype homeomorphy inner shelf internal ocular sinus isobath juvenile lower depth limit Lower Eocene margin of south-western mean mud contents Miocene ml/l Mozambique Channel NADW North Atlantic Deep Orange Shelf area ostracod fauna ostracod population oxygen deficient parameters paratypes Percentage of adult percentage of ostracod plotted against water Poseidonamicus major Benson Poseidonamicus panopsus sp Quaternary relative abundance salinity minimum zone scar separated shallow-water species sighted species smoothed 5-point means South African Museum south-western Africa southern Africa species of Poseidonamicus St Helena Bay Tertiary upper depth limit Walvis Bay water depth Whatley & Coles Whatley et al