Aráujo, Ricardo; Macungo, Zanildo; Smith, Roger M H; Tolan, Stephen; Angielczyk, Kenneth D; Crowley, James; Milisse, Dino; Mugabe, João(Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2020-12)
Numerous fossils of the toothed dicynodont Endothiodon have been collected previously from the Permian K5 formation of the Metangula Graben (Niassa, Mozambique). However, no identifiable vertebrate fossils have been reported ...
Bodenham, Ewan H; Barrett, Paul M(Evolutionary Studies Institute, 2020-12-11)
The upper Elliot Formation (?Rhaetian–Sinemurian) of South Africa and Lesotho has yielded a rich fauna of non-avian dinosaurs, which has generally been considered to be dominated by the massopodan sauropodomorph Massospondylus ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...