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    The Bokkeveld Group is the second of the three main subdivisions of the Cape Supergroup in South Africa. It overlies the Table Mountain Group and underlies...
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    rocks involved are generally sandstones and shales, with the shales (Bokkeveld Group) persisting in the valley floors while the erosion resistant sandstones...
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    re-radiate into a number of species within the genus, becoming the most common group of terrestrial vertebrates during the Early Triassic; for a while, 95% of...
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    sediments of the Bokkeveld Group. This is in marked contrast to the predominantly sandy sediments of the Table Mountain Group. The Bokkeveld Group consists predominantly...
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    of fertile soils composed of weathered mudstones belonging to the Bokkeveld Group of the Cape Supergroup, as opposed to the nutrient-poor, sandy soils...
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    thickness of 12 km, with the overlying basaltic lavas (the Drakensberg Group) at least 1.4 km thick. Fossils include plants (both macro-fossils and pollen)...
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    action eroding the shales of the Bokkeveld Group between the weather-resistant headlands composed of the Table Mountain Group, both of the Cape Supergroup...
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    Formation Moodies Group Onverwacht Group Transvaal Supergroup Paleozoic Carboniferous Dwyka Group Ganigobis Formation Devonian Bokkeveld Group Table Mountain...
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    lamproites than they do to group I kimberlites. Hence, he reclassified group II kimberlites as orangeites to prevent confusion. Group-I kimberlites are of CO2-rich...
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    the homonymy between the dinosaur Syntarsus and beetle Syntarsus, but the group who published Megapnosaurus have claimed that they believed Raath was deceased...
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    it to be a synapsid. Recent study of Mesosauridae phylogeny places the group as either the basal most clade within Parareptilia or the basal most clade...
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  • Thumbnail for Thrinaxodon
    originally discovered in the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group of South Africa. The genoholotype, BMNH R 511, was in 1887 described by...
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    batholiths, that were intruded into the Malmesbury Group about 630 million years ago, and the Table Mountain group sandstones that were deposited on the eroded...
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    woody trees and herbaceous ferns, and belongs to the progymnosperms, a group of extinct plants more closely related to seed plants than to ferns, but...
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    thick layer of rock is termed the "Central Rand Group". The "West Rand Group" and "Central Rand Group" of rocks together form the "Witwatersrand Supergroup"...
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  • Formation Moodies Group Onverwacht Group Transvaal Supergroup Paleozoic Carboniferous Dwyka Group Ganigobis Formation Devonian Bokkeveld Group Table Mountain...
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  • Thumbnail for Leontosaurus
    Formation Moodies Group Onverwacht Group Transvaal Supergroup Paleozoic Carboniferous Dwyka Group Ganigobis Formation Devonian Bokkeveld Group Table Mountain...
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  • mostly alluvial and flat, while eastern regions have more hills of the Bokkeveld Group with narrow alluvial deposits. The valley is framed by the high mountains...
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    study. The remains of this species were collected from deposits of the Bokkeveld Group in Swaarmoed Pass, South Africa. M. notatus was described in 2020 based...
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    association suggest that this early ornithischian dinosaur may have lived in groups. The skull and teeth of Lesothosaurus are more generalized than the heavily...
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    Farm" locality in the upper Elliot Formation which is part of the Stormberg Group in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It was collected by James Kitching...
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  • Thumbnail for Heterodontosaurus
    a basal (or "primitive") group within the order of ornithischian dinosaurs, while their closest affinities within the group are debated. In spite of the...
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    Formation Moodies Group Onverwacht Group Transvaal Supergroup Paleozoic Carboniferous Dwyka Group Ganigobis Formation Devonian Bokkeveld Group Table Mountain...
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    brittle stars were discovered in South African deposits older than the Bokkeveld Group for the first time by paleontologist Robert Gess, who collected several...
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    specimens, it is from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group of South Africa. Chasmatosaurus yuani was named by C. C. Young in 1936,...
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  • Thumbnail for Bushveld Igneous Complex
    Earth. It contains the world's largest reserves of platinum-group metals (PGMs) and platinum group elements (PGEs) — platinum, palladium, osmium, iridium,...
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  • Thumbnail for Moschorhinus
    found most prominently in the Upper Permian to Lower Triassic Beaufort Group. Moschorhinus is a therocephalian, a member of the clade Eutheriodontia...
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  • Formation Moodies Group Onverwacht Group Transvaal Supergroup Paleozoic Carboniferous Dwyka Group Ganigobis Formation Devonian Bokkeveld Group Table Mountain...
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  • Thumbnail for Hofmeyria
    Formation Moodies Group Onverwacht Group Transvaal Supergroup Paleozoic Carboniferous Dwyka Group Ganigobis Formation Devonian Bokkeveld Group Table Mountain...
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  • Thumbnail for Uitenhage Group
    Africa. Stratigraphically, the Uitenhage Group overlies the Suurberg Group and is overlain by the Algoa Group. It contains four formations that range in...
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