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We are making progress with the discoveries made on our filed trip in 2020. Fossils discovered are being prepared up and Julien Benoit has raised a grant to have some the specimens scanned at the Synchrotron in Grenoble in France. Volcanic ash sampl...
We are making progress with the discoveries made on our filed trip in 2020. Fossils discovered are being prepared up and Julien Benoit has raised a grant to have some the specimens scanned at the ...
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How to find fossils in the Karoo? Video
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We are in the field!
We are in the field!
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More about Viktor
More about ViktorViktor and I were interviewed by Aron some time ago: In addition of being a great researcher, he his also a great paleoartist whose drawing made headlines ! Check out his wonderful...
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In his last video, Aron also showed a picture of one of our Italian colleague, Marco Romano, who is working on Tapinocaninus, a dinocephalian from the middle Permian. Here is the National Geographic report : http://www.nationalgeographic.it/scienza/2...
In his last video, Aron also showed a picture of one of our Italian colleague, Marco Romano, who is working on Tapinocaninus, a dinocephalian from the middle Permian. Here is the National Geographi...
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For those who want to know more about the exciting research Aron has presented in his last video, here are some papers you can refer to:
For those who want to know more about the exciting research Aron has presented in his last video, here are some papers you can refer to:About gorgonopsids: https://theconversation.com/new-fossil-fi...
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The rocks of the Karoo were deposited over an extended timespan from the Permian to the Jurassic (300-180 million years ago). In this time the first tortoises, dinosaurs and mammals evolved and appeared. The Karoo is noted for these fossils, but in particular it is famous for fossils of therapsid "mammal-like reptiles" which are the ancestors of mammals. The Karoo succession is famous for the extended range of therapsids which chronicle the evolution of mammals. Also the Karoo is noted for having the best record on land of the end Guadalupian, end Permian, and end Triassic mass extinctions.
May 05, 2022
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentThank you Mayo for your comment. The crowd funding enabled us to undertake the planned fossil collecting field trip. We found several important fossils including at least one new species (this fossil is still being prepared to expose it from the rock) and several volcanic ashes which are currently being dated at MIT. The project continues and we will be doing more collecting in the future.
May 27, 2021
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentThis was definitely a team work effort. Dave was the first to find bone in a pebble-lag layer. Julien followed the pebble-lag on some distance and eventually it was Kevin who joined him and found some boulders with bones inside at the bottom of the hill. The skull was on the top of the hill.
Mar 23, 2020
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentThank you. This is a dicynodont, a mammal-like reptile with a beak and two tusks. It would have looked like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/KingoriaDB.jpg
Mar 23, 2020
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentThank you Lilly for your interest in our field project which we will run in March 2020. If you wish to contact me to find out more it will be best to contact me via my email (bruce.rubidge@wits.ac.za). All the best. Bruce
Sep 23, 2019
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentDear AJ,
Thank you for your interest. This is a very broad question indeed. Our lab has produced some papers about the behaviour of dinocephalians. Certainly there are some of the answers you are looking for here:
https://peerj.com/articles/3496/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161457
For the Permian diapsid, so far we have the oldest lepidosaurian (Heleosuchus) and the oldest squamate (Paliguana) in the South African Permian. Most noticeably, we have Eunotosaurus, which is a diapsid turtle ancestor that demonstrate that turtles belong to the clade Diapsida.
Sincerely
Bruce Rubidge
May 13, 2019
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentMy colleagues, Aron and I are infinitely grateful. The crowdfunding is a success and this is all thank to your support !
Thank you very much
Bruce Rubidge
Apr 23, 2019
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentThank you very much for your support. We will make the best of it :)
Apr 20, 2019
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentDear Susan. Many thanks for your very generous backing of our project to collect fossils in the Karoo. Your generosity has now made this field trip possible and I am extremely grateful to you for helping us to advance scientific discovery. Sincerely
Bruce Rubidge
Apr 20, 2019
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentThank you very much for your support. We will be very please to take Aron with us. Please do not forget to share ;)
Apr 19, 2019
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
View commentWe hope we will find some more. Thank you for your generosity and don't forget to share the project ;)
Apr 18, 2019
Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo
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