• Pleistocene vertebrate trace fossils of Robberg Nature Reserve 

  Helm, Charles W.; Cawthra, Hayley C.; Hattingh, Rudolph; Hattingh, Sinèad; McCrea, Richard T.; Thesen, Guy H. H. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-12)

  More than 140 Late Pleistocene trace fossil sites have been identified in aeolianites and lithified foreshore deposits along a 350 kilometre stretch of the Cape south coast in South Africa. Robberg Nature Reserve lies ...
• A comparison of hominin teeth from Lincoln Cave Sterkfontein L63 and Dinaledi Chamber South Africa 

  Brophy, J.K.; Irish, J.; Churchill, S.E.; de Ruiter, D.J.; Hawks, J.; Berger, L. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019-05)

  Prior to the recovery of Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave system, the Middle Pleistocene fossil record in Africa was particularly sparse. With the large sample size now available from Dinaledi, ...
• The Younger Dryas interval at Wonderkrater (South Africa) in the context of a platinum anomaly 

  Thackeray, J. Francis; Scott, Louis; Pieterse, P (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-10-02)

  Wonderkrater in the Limpopo Province in South Africa is a late Quaternary archaeological site with peat deposits extending back more than 30 000 years before the present. Palaeoclimatic indices based on multivariate analysis ...
• Cranial morphology and phylogenetic relationship of the enigmatic dinocephalian Styracocephalus platyrhynchus from the Karoo Supergroup, South Africa 

  Fraser-King, Simon W.; Benoit, Julien; Day, Michael O.; Rubidge, Bruces S. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-09)

  Styracocephalus platyrhynchus is an unusual dinocephalian therapsid, known only from a handful of specimens from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. It has had a chequered taxonomic history, largely because ...
• Systematic experiments to quantitatively assess image quality for CT scans of a Karoo tetrapod fossil 

  Tshibalanganda, Muofhe; du Plessis, Anton; Le Roux, Stephan G.; Taylor, Wendy L.; Smith, Roger M. H.; Browning, Claire (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-08)

  Over the past decade non-destructive, three-dimensional visualization and analysis of fossils using X-ray tomography has greatly advanced palaeontological studies worldwide. Micro-computed tomography (microCT) is now ...
• First occurrence of the dicynodont Digalodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Lopingian upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation, Luangwa Basin, Zambia 

  Angielczyk, Kenneth D. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-04)

  Digalodon is a rare emydopoid dicynodont first described from upper Permian rocks in the Karoo Basin of South Africa. During fieldwork in the upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin (Zambia) in 2014, a ...
• Postcranial osteology of the neotype specimen of Massospondylus carinatus Owen, 1854 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the upper Elliot formation of South Africa 

  Barrett, Paul M.; Chapelle, Kimberley E.J.; Staunton, Casey K.; Botha, Jennifer; Choiniere, Jonah N. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-04)

  Massospondylus carinatus Owen, 1854, from the earliest Jurassic upper Elliot Formation of South Africa, was one of the first dinosaurs to be described from Gondwana. It has been incorporated into numerous phylogenetic, ...
• A fossil chrysochlorid skull in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History: Robert Broom’s missing specimen unearthed? 

  Mason, Matthew J.; Bennett, Nigel C.; Pickford, Martin (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-04)

  An unlabelled, fossilized skull of a golden mole from the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria, was examined through micro-computed tomography. Reconstructions show that the species in question has alveoli ...
• The inner craniodental anatomy of the Papio specimen U.W. 88-886 from the Early Pleistocene site of Malapa, Gauteng, South Africa 

  Bouchet, Florian; Ribéron, Alexandre; Heaton, Jason L.; Hoffman, Jakobus; Bam, Lunga; Jakata, Kudakwashe; Tawane, Mirriam; Tenailleau, Christophe; Zipfel, Bernhard; Beaudet, Amélie (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-04)

  Cercopithecoids represent an essential component of the Plio-Pleistocene faunal assemblage. However, despite the abundance of the cercopithecoid fossil remains in African Plio-Pleistocene deposits, the chronological and ...
• A new dicynodont (Anomodontia: Emydopoidea) from the terminal Permian of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 

  Kammerer, Christian F. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-04)

  A new taxon of dicynodont (Thliptosaurus imperforatus gen. et sp. nov.) is described based on a dorsoventrally-crushed skull from latest Permian (upper Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone) strata in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ...
• Mongoose Manor: Herpestidae remains from the Early Pleistocene Cooper’s D locality in the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa 

  Cohen, Brigette F.; O'Regan, Hannah J.; Steininger, Christine M. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-01)

  Mongooses (Herpestidae) are an important component of African ecosystems, and a common constituent of southern African fossil assemblages. Despite this, mongoose fossils from the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa, ...
• Hominin tracks in southern Africa: a review and an approach to identification 

  Helm, Charles W.; Lockley, Martin G.; Cole, Kevin; Noakes, Timothy D.; McCrea, Richard T. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-01)

  Three Late Pleistocene hominin tracksites have been reported from coastal aelioanites in South Africa. Two have been dated to 124 ka and 117 ka , and the third is inferred to be 90 ka. There are no other globally reported ...
• A new genus of Protasteridae (Ophiuridea) from the Lower Devonian Bokkeveld Group of South Africa 

  Reid, Mhairi; Hunter, Aaron W.; Taylor, Wendy L.; Bordy, Emese M. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-01)

  Gamiroaster tempestatis, a new genus and species of Palaeozoic ophiuroid, is described from four specimens identified in the Lower DevonianVoorstehoek Formation (Ceres Subgroup, Bokkeveld Group) of SouthAfrica. This ...
• Histological evidence of trauma in tusks of southern African dicynodonts 

  Whitney, Megan R.; Tse, Yuen Ting; Sidor, Christian A. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2019-01)

  Dicynodonts were a clade of globally-distributed therapsids known for their abundance in the fossil record and for surviving the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. The group had distinctive dental adaptations including a ...
• Biesiespoort revisited: a case study on the relationship between tetrapod assemblage zones and Beaufort lithostratigraphy south of Victoria West 

  Day, Michael O.; Rubidge, Bruce S. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018-12)

  The relationship between the tetrapod assemblage zones of the South African Karoo Basin and the lithostratigraphic divisions of the Beaufort Group is well-established, and provides an independent means of dating fossil ...
• Fossil tree hollows from a late Permian forest of the Matinde Formation (Tete, Mozambique) 

  Araújo, Ricardo; Nhamutole, Nelson; Macungo, Zanildo; Milisse, Dino; Bamford, Marion (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018-10-31)

  Fossil tree hollows are seldom described in the literature and can often be elusive to the field paleobotanist. However, these structures may provide unique paleoecological, environmental and tree life history information ...
• Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Conference of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa, Bloemfontein, 4–6 July 2018 

  Multiple authors (2018-09)
• Molteno sphenophytes: Late Triassic biodiversity in southern Africa 

  Anderson, Heidi M.; Anderson, John M. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018-06-28)

  This comprehensive systematic study of the sphenophytes (Equisetophyta, horsetails) is the fifth monograph in a series describing the flora of the Molteno Fm., Karoo Basin (Late Triassic, Carnian) of South Africa. The ...
• Cranial morphology and phylogenetic analysis of Cynosaurus suppostus (Therapsida, Cynodontia) from the upper Permian of the Karoo Basin, South Africa 

  van den Brandt, Marc; Abdala, Fernando (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018-03)

  Non-mammaliaform cynodonts are an important fossil lineage which include the ancestors of mammals and which illustrate the gradual evolution of mammalian characteristics. The earliest cynodonts (‘basal cynodonts’) are ...
• The remedial conservation and support jacketing of the Massospondylus carinatus neotype 

  Graham, Mark R.; Choiniere, Jonah N.; Jirah, Sifelani; Barrett, Paul M. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018-03)

  Massopondylus carinatus Owen, 1854 is a non-sauropodan sauropodomorph (‘prosauropod’) dinosaur whose remains are abundant in the Upper Karoo Supergroup sediments of southern Africa (e.g. Owen 1854; Seeley 1895; Cooper ...

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