Those sites in South Africa where more than one insect fossil specimen has been found have been interpreted as younger than Middle Triassic or as Late Permian. One site which has yielded a number of specimens and is ...

The Upper Eifelian paranacystid mitrate Paranacystis simoneae sp. nov. from the Waboomberg Formation (Bokkeveld Group, We stern Cape Province, South Africa) is described and a revised diagnosis of the Family Paranacystidae ...

This paper provides an almost complete description of the Permian fossil reptile Eunotosaurus for the first time. Taphonomy indicates that these were terrestrial animals; dentition suggests that they preyed on small ...

Alcelaphine antelopes comprise one of the most species-rich groups among the mammalian assemblages from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and in Africa as a whole. I describe a new genus and species Awashia suwai from Matabaietu ...

Arrisdrift, an early Middle Miocene site in the Proto-Orange river deposits of Namibia, was excavated in the mid 1970s by Corvinus and since 1993 by the Namibia Palaeontology Expedition. These excavations resulted in the ...

A left femur of a small sauropod dinosaur was found in the Maastrichtian part of the Ammonite Hill Member of the Dahkla Formation of southwestern Egypt. it represents the first dinosaur remains of certain Maastrichtian ...

Until now the earliest recognised procolophonoid (sensu Laurin & Reisz 1995) reptile has been Owenetta, which ranges from the Cistecephalus assemblage zone (Upper Permian) to the Lystrosaurus assemblage zone (Lower ...

A site in amaqualand, Western Cape Province, has yielded a diverse and well-preserved pa lynoflora. The site consists of a quarry, exposing a palaeochannel containing fluviatile sands, silts and clays with accompanying ...