Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
Abstract
Main articleFossil mamma ls from various stratigraphic levels in coastal Namaqualand reveal that the littoral
marine deposits, hitherto correlated to the Plio-Pleistocene, range in age from Early Miocene to
Ple istocene and Holocene. The faunal assemblages, described in stratigraphic orde r, consist
predominantly o f large mammals, but most of the faunas also contain marine vertebrates and
invertebrates. Faunas of Early Miocene(ca 17 Ma), Middle Miocene(ca 13- 12Ma), Late Miocene(ca
6-5 Ma), Plio-Pleistocene (ca 3-2.5 Ma) and younger age are documented .the Chaire de Paleoanthropologie et de Prehistoire du College de
France (Prof. Y. Coppens) and GDR 983 du C RS
