Significance
Very high
diverse lagoonal biota of fish (placoderms, acanthodians, sharks, several subgroups of bony fish, lampreys etc), arthropods (eg eurypterids), rich vascular plant flora (lycopods, progymnosperms etc), seaweeds, charophytes, low diversity trace assemblages, including Spirophyton
Additional Comments
Thick sandstone units (eg most of Witpoort Fm.) are poorly fossiliferous whereas mudrocks are of high palaeontological significance.
Important record of Late Devonian high palaeolatitude biodiversity and extinction events.
Witpoort lagoonal biota lived close to Late Devonian South Pole.
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