Geographic reconstruction of Earth during the Devonian Period showing South Africa’s location at the South Pole and the extent of the Malvinoxhosan biotas (IMAGE)

University of the Witwatersrand

Geographic reconstruction of Earth during the Devonian Period showing South Africa’s location at the South Pole and the extent of the Malvinoxhosan biotas

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Inset images are of common invertebrate fossils found in South Africa.  Clockwise from left:  Brachiopod shell bed of Australospirifer and Australocoelia, the trilobite Eldredgeia, brachiopod shells of Rhipidothyris, an ophiuroid bed.  At centre is an enrolled trilobite assigned to Burmiesteria.  Image credits:  Geographic reconstruction after Penn-Clarke and Harper (2023), fossil photographs by Cameron Penn-Clarke and John Almond.

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