• 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 ...
• Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Continental Ichnology (ICCI 2017), Nuy Valley (Western Cape Winelands), 1–8 October 2017 

  Bordy, Emese M (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018)

  The 2nd International Conference of Continental Ichnology (ICCI 2017) was held in Nuy Valley (Western CapeWinelands) and followed by a field trip across South Africa to Lesotho from 1st to 8th of October 2017. The ...
• Fossil trees from the basal Triassic Lebung Group at the Makgaba site, west of Mokubilo, Botswana 

  de Wit, Michael; Bamford, Marion; van Waarden, C (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018-03)

  Fossil wood samples were collected from an area underlain by Karoo Supergroup rocks along the southern edge of Sua Pan in east central Botswana. From the local stratigraphy it suggests that these fossils have been derived ...
• The first skeletal evidence of a dicynodont from the lower Elliot Formation of South Africa 

  Kammerer, Christian F. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018)

  Historical fossil specimens from the lower Elliot Formation are identified as representing a large-bodied dicynodont, the first known from skeletal material in the Late Triassic of South Africa. Although fragmentary, these ...
• Sterkfontein 1967-2013 Diary master catalogue 

  Stratford, Dominic (2018-01-31)
• Sterkfontein Bibliography 

  Stratford, Dominic (2018-01-31)
• Late Pleistocene vertebrate trace fossils in the Goukamma Nature Reserve, Cape South Coast, South Africa 

  Helm, Charles W.; McCrea, Richard T.; Lockley, Martin G.; Cawthra, Hayley C.; Thesen, Guy H. H.; Mwankunda, Joshua M. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2018-02)

  More than 100 Late Pleistocene trace fossil sites have been identified in aeolianites along a 275 kilometer stretch of the Cape south coast. A zone of concentration of such sites exists within the Goukamma Nature Reserve, ...
• Rediscovery of the holotype of Clelandina major Broom, 1948 (Gorgonopsia: Rubidgeinae) with implications for the identity of this species 

  Kammerer, Christian F. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2017-12)

  No specimen number was given for the holotype of the rubidgeine gorgonopsian species Clelandina major Broom, 1948 in its original description. Historically, a specimen in the Rubidge Collection (RC 94) was considered to ...
• Biofilm assists recognition of avian trackways in Late Pleistocene coastal aeolianites, South Africa 

  Helm, Charles W.; Anderson, Robert J.; Buckley, Lisa G.; Cawthra, Hayley C.; de Vynck, Jan C. (Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2017-12)

  Fourteen fossil avian tracksites have been identified in Late Pleistocene aeolianite deposits on the Cape south coast of SouthAfrica. One of these sites is unusual because of the preferential adherence of organic material ...
• A decorated raven bone from the Zaskalnaya VI (Kolosovskaya) Neanderthal site, Crimea 

  Majkic, A.; Evans, S.; Stepanchuk, V.; Tsvelykh, A.; D'Errico, F. (Public Library of Science, 2017-03)

  We analyze a radius bone fragment of a raven (Corvus corax) from Zaskalnaya VI rock shelter, Crimea. The object bears seven notches and comes from an archaeological level attributed to a Micoquian industry dated to between ...
• Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record 

  Rosso, D. E.; D'Errico, F.; Queffelec, A. (Public Library of Science, 2017-05)

  Ochre is found at numerous Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and plays a key role in early modern human archaeology. Here we analyse the largest known East African MSA ochre assemblage, comprising 40 kg of ochre, found at ...
• The bony labyrinth of late Permian Biarmosuchia: palaeobiology and diversity in non-mammalian Therapsida 

  Benoit, Julien; Manger, Paul R; Fernandez, Vincent; Rubidge, Bruce S (2017-07)

  Biarmosuchia, as the basalmost group of Therapsida (the stem group of mammals), are important for understanding mammalian origins and evolution. Unlike other therapsid groups, the bony labyrinth of biarmosuchians has not ...
• Palynological dating and palaeoenvironments of the M1 well, Middle Miocene, Niger Delta, Nigeria 

  Durugbo, Ernest Uzodimma; Olayiwola, Moshood Adegboyega (2017-07)

  The need to increase our knowledge of palaeo-flora is important in palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Tertiary Niger Delta as to highlight possible changes in the depositional environments over ...
• Proceedings of the 2017 biennial conference of the South African Society of Quaternary Research 

  Fitchett, Jennifer M.; Bamford, Marion K. (2017-04)

  Proceedings of the 21st Biennial Conference of the South African Society of Quaternary Research, Johannesburg, 3–7 April 2017
• A Partially Articulated Cynodont Encased in a Putative Burrow Structure from the Cynognathus Subzone C 

  Afonso, Nadia (2015-10)

  A sedimentary structure containing a fossilized therapsid, and bioglyphs on the surface morphology, was found during a field expedition to Cynognathus subzone-C in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. A combination of surface ...
• New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa 

  Hawks, J.; Elliott, M.; Schmid, P.; Churchill, S.E.; de Ruiter, D.J.; Roberts, E.M.; Hilbert-Wolf, H.; Garvin, H.M.; Williams, S.A.; Delezene, L.K.; Feuerriegel, E.M.; Randolph-Quinney, P.; Kivell, T.L.; Laird, M.F.; Tawane, G.; DeSilva, J.M.; Bailey, S.E.; Brophy, J.K.; Meyer, M.R.; Skinner, M.M.; Tocheri, M.W.; VanSickle, C.; Walker, C.S.; Campbell, T.L.; Kuhn, B.; Kruger, A.; Tucker, S.; Gurtov, A.; Hlophe, N.; Hunter, R.; Morris, H.; Peixotto, B.; Ramalepa, M.; van Rooyen, D.; Tsikoane, M.; Boshoff, P.; Dirks, P.H.G.M.; Berger, L.R. (eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2017-05)

  The Rising Star cave system has produced abundant fossil hominin remains within the Dinaledi Chamber, representing a minimum of 15 individuals attributed to Homo naledi. Further exploration led to the discovery of hominin ...
• The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa 

  Dirks, P.H.G.M.; Roberts, E.M.; Hilbert-Wolf, H.; Kramers, J.D.; Hawks, J.; Dosseto, A.; Duval, M.; Elliott, M.; Evans, M.; Grün, R.; Hellstrom, J.; Herries, A.I.R.; Joannes-Boyau, R.; Makhubela, T.V.; Placzek, C.J.; Robbins, J.; Spandler, C.; Wiersma, J.; Woodhead, J.; Berger, L.R. (eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2017-05)

  New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th and palaeomagnetic analyses of flowstones to establish ...
• Homo naledi and Pleistocene hominin evolution in subequatorial Africa 

  Berger, L.R.; Hawks, J.; Dirks, P.H.G.M.; Elliott, M.; Roberts, E.M. (eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2017-05)

  New discoveries and dating of fossil remains from the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, have strong implications for our understanding of Pleistocene human evolution in Africa. Direct dating of ...

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