- Title
- South Africa’s oldest ophiuroid fossils provide rare insights into the origination of the Malvinoxhosan Realm
- Creator
- Gess, Robert W, Reddy, Caitlin
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480595
- Identifier
- vital:78458
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-sajsci-v120-n11-a11
- Description
- Recent description of the oldest recorded brittle stars (ophiuroids) from the southern hemisphere revealed two distinct taxa of early Pragian age (approximately 410 million years old). Whereas one of the brittle stars belonged to a species previously described from younger strata, the others represent an unusually spiny taxon formerly unknown to science. Recovered from the 'upper member' of the Baviaanskloof Formation (the uppermost unit of the Table Mountain Group), they offer insights into the earliest recorded phase of the endemic Malvinoxhosan Realm, deposited in polar regions of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, and better known from the overlying Bokkeveld Group.
- Format
- 3 page, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Science, Gess, R.W. and Reddy, C., 2024. South Africa’s oldest ophiuroid fossils provide rare insights into the origination of the Malvinoxhosan Realm. South African Journal of Science, 120(11/12), South African Journal of Science volume 120 number 11-12 1 4 2024 1996-7489
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Gess, Robert W (Dr)
RU Department of Geology
RU Albany Museum
SDG 15. Life On Land
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