More fossil wood from the Namaqualand coast, South Africa; onshore material.
Date
1995
Authors
Bamford, Marion K.
Corbett, Ian B.
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Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
Abstract
Fossil wood was collected from a palaeo-beach sequence on the farms Sandkop, Oubeep and
adjacent State land, on the Namaqualand (west) coast of South Africa. Of the 14 samples sectioned
only 5 were well enough preserved to describe and identify to species level. The woods are
podocarpaceous and have been assigned to the taxa Podocarpoxylon cf. umzambense,
Mesembrioxylon woburnense, M. stokesi and Mesembrioxylon sp. The samples are Lower
Cretaceous in age and were most probably reworked a number of times into successively younger
palaeoshoreline deposits. The same species occurred in the offshore sediments, therefore
indicating a wider area of "woodland" and further evidence of extensive shelf erosion by
subsequent marine transgressions and regressions.
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Keywords
Podocarpaceae, Lower Cretaceous, South Africa.
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