Gardiner, B. G.2014-12-192014-12-1919730078-8554http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16037The 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.enArticle