A revision of Late Devonian (Famennian) “thallophyte” (probable Rhodophyte and Phaeophyte) algae from the Witpoort Formation of South Africa
- Authors: Reddy, Caitlin
- Date: 2024-10-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/464955 , vital:76560
- Description: Access restricted. Expected release in 2026. , Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science, Geology, 2024
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- Date Issued: 2024-10-11
South Africa’s oldest ophiuroid fossils provide rare insights into the origination of the Malvinoxhosan Realm
- Authors: Gess, Robert W , Reddy, Caitlin
- Date: 2024
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480595 , vital:78458 , 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.
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- Date Issued: 2024