Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.3° S, 20.0° E: paleocoordinates 68.4° S, 159.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wagen Drift Formation (Witteberg Group), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Givetian-?Frasnian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Hiller. 1990. Benthic communities and sedimentary facies in the Lower Witteberg Group, (Devonian, South Africa). Annals of the South African Museum 99(7):215-230 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77959: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.01.2008

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