the Bokkeveld Group as a whole. Hummocky cross-bedding structures are frequently observed in this formation. The sandstones exhibit coarsening-upward cycles and hummocky cross-bedding. These features indicate that the depositional environment was a high-energy storm and wave reworked delta front or delta plain environment. The formation is abundant in invertebrate fossils, especially brachiopods. Voorstehoek Formation: Mudstone and siltstone. Same depositional environment as the lower Gydo Formation. Hex River Formation: Sandstones arranged in coarsening-upward sequences much like the Gamka Formation. Trace fossils of Planolites, Skolithos, and Arenicolites are found. Tra-Tra Formation: Mudstone and siltstone-rich. Boplaas Formation: Fine to medium-grained feldspathic wackes and arenites with minor shales and siltstone. Bidouw Subgroup (West of 24ºE): Waboomberg Formation: Mudstone and siltstone interbedded with fine-grained sandstones. Wuppertal Formation: Fine to medium-grained sandstones and minor siltstones. Klipbokkop Formation: Shales and siltstones with subordinate fine-grained sandstone. Osberg Formation: Westernmost outcrops of this formation are dominated by sandstone. Karoopoort Formation: Shale and siltstone with some minor sandstone layers. Traka Subgroup (East of 24ºE): Karies Formation: Dark-coloured shale and rhythmites are dominant. Deep marine (pelagic zone) depositional environment. Adolphspoort Formation: Dark, wavy-bedded siltstone and micaceous shales. Eastern correlate of the Osberg Formation. Sandpoort Formation: Reddish, lenticular bedded sandstones with minor mudstones. Plant fossils are common. Paleontology The bulk of the fossils found in the Cape Supergroup are eroded fragments of benthic invertebrate Malvinokaffric fauna, particularly that of various brachiopods such as Australocoelia, Australospirifer, and chonetids. Crinoids are also found, although their dis-articulated ossicles are more common, as are trace fossils such as worm burrows and feeding trails left by other invertebrates. Rarer are fossils of trilobites, bivalves, cephalopods, gastropods, ophiuroids, hyoliths, echinoids, echinoderms, conulariids, cricoconarids, and corals.Almond, J.E., 2013. PALAEONTOLOGICAL SPECIALIST STUDY: FIELD ASSESSMENT. Expansion of an existing Borrow Pit in the Prince Albert townlands, Prince Albert District, Western Cape. John E. Almond (Natura Viva cc, Cape Town). March 2013.Anderson, M.E., Long, J.A., Evans, F.J., Almond, J.E., Theron, J.N. and Bender, P.A., 1999. Biogeographic affinities of Middle and Late Devonian fishes of South Africa. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement, 57, pp.157-168 PDF: http://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/11.%20Anderson,%20Long,%20Evans,%20Almond,%20Theron,%20Bender.pdf In the upper Bidouw and Traka Subgroups, plant and trace fossils are more common than invertebrate fossils. Lycopods and trace fossils of Spirophyton'' have been recovered. Rare bony fish fossils have also been found, mainly of placoderm fishes, although placoderm fish are mainly known from rocks of the overlying Witteberg Group. References Geologic groups of