• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

View more