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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 ...

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 ...

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