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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... 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 ...
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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