The abundance of Glossopteris and Mesosaurus fossils are characteristic of the Gondwanan correlation across present-day South America, Africa, Antarctica and Australia.

In the eastern domain around the Doros crater, dark iron-oxide cements occur in the upper conglomerate horizons.

[6] The laminated mudstones and marls contain a diverse ichnofauna including Skolithos, Planolites, and large exemplars of Rhizocorallium irregulare.

West of the bioherm belts, the fair weather wave basis reached the ground, expressed in oscillation-rippled surfaces.

The flat pebbles derived from desiccated layers of unlithified cohesive fine clastics that had been reworked, preferentially under the influence of storm waves.

Shales and mudstones besides algal laminites represent deposition in a slightly agitated, shallow water body with relatively intensive carbonate production.

Autochthonous breccias give clear evidence for frequent sea level fluctuations, that refer to palustrine soils, which underwent periodically subaerial exposure.

[16] The fossil assemblages of Glossopteris and Mesosaurus are known from other parts of Gondwana; the Vryheid Formation of South Africa and coal deposits of the Lower Permian in Australia.