Howison's Poort, Grahamstown (Devonian of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.3° S, 26.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 68.3° S, 179.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Weltevrede Formation (Witteberg Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• ?Givetian-Frasnian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

• intertidal

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 77958: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
? Trimerus sp.
? Trimerus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
  - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus sp.
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea baini
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Plectonotus sp.
Plectonotus sp. Clarke 1899 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp.
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp.
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
"Janeia sp." = Solemya
"Janeia sp." = Solemya Children 1823 Awning Clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Sanguinolites sp.
Sanguinolites sp. M'Coy 1844 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Paraprothyris sp.
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha sp.
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam