Cainozoic mammals from coastal Namaqualand, South Africa
Date
1997
Authors
Pickford, Martin
Senut, Brigitte
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Publisher
Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
Abstract
Fossil mamma ls from various stratigraphic levels in coastal Namaqualand reveal that the littoral
marine deposits, hitherto correlated to the Plio-Pleistocene, range in age from Early Miocene to
Ple istocene and Holocene. The faunal assemblages, described in stratigraphic orde r, consist
predominantly o f large mammals, but most of the faunas also contain marine vertebrates and
invertebrates. Faunas of Early Miocene(ca 17 Ma), Middle Miocene(ca 13- 12Ma), Late Miocene(ca
6-5 Ma), Plio-Pleistocene (ca 3-2.5 Ma) and younger age are documented .
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Keywords
Namaqualand, Miocene, Pliocene, Ple istocene, Mammals, Biostratigraphy
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