NEW PALAEOZOIC FISH REMAINS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA
Date
1973
Authors
Gardiner, B. G.
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BERNARD PRICE INSTITUTE FOR PALAEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Abstract
The fossil fish record of southern Africa is
both sparse and spotty and the only group with a
relatively complete record is the Actinopterygii;
indeed several of the major fish groups have not so
far been described from the African Continent.
The Palaeozoic rocks of southern Africa have
yielded an even more restricted fish fauna
(Gardiner 1962; 1969). However, an accumulation
of new, but fragmentary, material from several
localities has shown the undoubted presence of
two groups, coelacanths and acanthodians, hitherto
unrecorded from the Palaeozoic strata of southern
Africa.