Palaeobiology of Early Carboniferous lacustrine biota of the Waaipoort Formation (Witteberg Group), South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorEvans, F J
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-12T09:02:00Z
dc.date.available2015-01-12T09:02:00Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractThe Early Carboniferous (Visean) Waaipoort Formation (Cape Supergroup, Witteberg Group) is a heterolithic sandstone dominated formation containing apatite-rich and calcite-rich fossiliferous nodules. Exposures of the Waaipoort Formation (Lake Mentz Subgroup) are not common and are found within the Cape Fold Belt in the Eastern and Western Cape. Fossils in the formation include palaeoniscoid fishes, sharks, acanthodians, ichnofauna, thin-shelled unionid bivalves, two genera of plants, and a cyrtoctenid eurypterid. The salinity of the Waaipoort dual basin depository is interpreted as being fresh to brackish water with some minor fluctuations. The palaeoenvironment is interpreted as being lacustrine.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Council's Research Committe, University of the Witwatersrand; National Science Foundation; Foundation for Research and Developmenten_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0078-8554
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/16455
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherBernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectWaaiport Formationen_ZA
dc.subjectWitteberg Groupen_ZA
dc.subjectPalaeoniscoideaen_ZA
dc.subjectAcanthodiien_ZA
dc.subjectChondrichthyesen_ZA
dc.titlePalaeobiology of Early Carboniferous lacustrine biota of the Waaipoort Formation (Witteberg Group), South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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