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Proceedings of the 19Th Biennial Conference of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa, Stellenbosch, 5–9 July 2016 Proceedings of the 19th Biennial Conference of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa, Stellenbosch, 5–9 July 2016 Table of Contents · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 31 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 32 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 34 Rogers, R. Twenty years of palaeontological adventure and discovery on the Great Red Island, Madagascar · · · · · · · · · · · · · 34 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 35 Benson, R., Day, M.O., Rubidge, B., Butler, R., Carrano, M., Alroy, J. Tetrapod diversification and sampling in the Karoo Basin, and the world · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 35 Fernandez, V. Synchrotron radiation-based science · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 36 Roberts, E.M., Broderick, T., Munyikwa, D., O’Connor, P., Carrano, M., Dirks, P., Jinnah, Z., Stevens, N., Owusu Agyemang, P. Revisiting Jurassic–Cretaceous fossil localities in the Mana Pools Basin and Mid-Zambezi Rift, Zimbabwe: new discoveries and sedimentological and taphonomic insights · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 37 Rogers, K.C. Tiny titanosaurs: primary growth and early ontogeny in a very young sauropod from Madagascar · · · · · · · · · · · 38 Farke, A.A. Digital palaeontology for outreach and education: moving from promise to practice · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 39 Braga, J., Thackeray, J.F. The Kromdraai Research Project: new discoveries · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 40 Dirks, P. About the landscape, caves and fossils in the Cradle of Humankind; what determines their presence · · · · · · · · · · · · 41 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 42 Abrahams, M., Bordy, E.M., Sciscio, L., Knoll, F. Tridactyl dinosaur trackways in the Lower Jurassic upper Elliot Formation near Lephoto village (Roma, Maseru District, Lesotho) · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 42 Anderson, H.M. Generic and specific concepts in Molteno and Gondwana palaeobotany · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 42 Anderson, J.M. Biodiversity and extinction · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 42 Angst, D., Chinsamy, A., Steel, L., Hume, J. Life history insights of the dodo from bone histology · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 43 Araújo, R., Fernandez, V., Polcyn, M.J., Fröbisch, J., Martins, R.M.S. The neuroanatomy, braincase and occiput in Gorgonopsia revealed by synchrotron microtomography · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 43 Bamford, M.K. The diversity of conifer woods from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation and palaeoenvironmental implications · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 44 Barbolini, N., Bamford, M.K., Rubidge, B.S. Glacial barriers to floral migration in the Permo-Carboniferous of Gondwana· · · 44 Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., de Beer, F., Durrleman, S., Gilissen, E., Oettlé, A., Subsol, G., Thackeray, F., Braga, J. Early hominin brain evolution: extracting palaeoneurological evidence from the fossil record · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 45 Benoit, J., Norton, L.A. A reappraisal of the capacity to envenom the bite in Euchambersia (Therocephalia, Therapsida) using µCT scanning · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 45 Bergh, E.W., Compton, J.S. Stratigraphy and depositional environment of Namibian continental shelf sediments as indicated by fossil foraminifera · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 46 Bergh, E.W., Naran, D., Taylor, W. The role of museums in palaeontological education · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 46 Bordy, E.M., Sciscio, L., Reid, M., Abrahams, M. A new theropod dinosaur footprint site in the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation (Mafube, eastern Free State, South Africa): footprint preservation in a semi-arid fluvio-lacustrine setting · · · · 47 Botha-Brink, J., Huttenlocker, A. K., Smith, R. M. H., Prevec, R., Modesto, S.P., Viglietti, P. New data on the Permo- Triassic Boundary from the Karoo Basin of South Africa · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 47 Bowen, D., van der Linde, C., Dinis, Y., Muir, R.A., Bordy, E.M. Palaeoenvironment, stratigraphy and evolution of Mesozoic rift basins, onshore Outeniqua Basin, Western and Eastern Cape, South Africa · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 48 Browning, C., Gabbott, S., Zalasiewicz, J., Theron, J. A record of sedimentation of the Late Ordovician Soom Shale Member (Cedarberg Formation) from new borehole data in the Cedarberg region of South Africa · · · · · · · · · 48 Butler, E., Botha-Brink, J., Abdala, N.F. A new gorgonopsian from the uppermost Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin of South Africa · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 49 Canoville, A., Chinsamy, A. Palaeobiological implications of the bone microstructure of pareiasaurs (Parareptilia) from the Karoo Basin, South Africa · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 49 ©2017 Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. This is an open-access article published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This item is permanently archived at: http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/ handle/10539/22433/ Palaeontologia africana 51: 27–85 — ISSN 2410-4418 [Palaeontol. afr.] Online only Permanently archived on the 30th of April 2017 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. This item is permanently archived at: http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/22433 Canoville, A., de Buffrénil, V., Laurin, M. Microanatomical diversity of amniote ribs · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 49 Cazenave, M., Braga, J., de Beer, F., Hoffman, J.W., Macchiarelli, M., Oettlé, A., Thackeray, J.F. Cancellous network patterning and cortical bone distribution at the proximal femoral end in P.robustus · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 50 Chapelle, K., Choiniere, J.N. Three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the cranial ontogeny of Massospondylus carinatus based on CT reconstructions · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 50 Chinsamy, A., Cerda I., Powell, J. Vascularized, endosteal bone tissue in saltasaurine titanosaurs from Argentina· · · · · · · · · 51 Choiniere, J.N., Chapelle, K.E.J., Brusatte, S.L., Hendrickx, C., Norell, M.A. CT-based reconstruction of the skull of the basal maniraptoran Ornitholestes hermanni Osborn 1903 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 51 Clayton, K.E., McPhee, B.W., Penn-Clarke, C., Choiniere, J.N., Jinnah, Z. Trace and body fossils of the Triassic- Jurassic Elliot and Clarens formations in the Lebombo–Tshipise Basin, South Africa · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 52 Cohen, B.F. Archaeological methods and practice: a multidisciplinary approach · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 52 Couzens, R. A. Spatial modelling, formation and transformation of the Oldowan lithic artefact assemblages from Sterk- fontein caves, South Africa · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 52 Day, M. O., Rubidge, B.S., Abdala, F. A new burnetiamorph therapsid from the Pristerognathus AZ of South Africa and a proposed solution to their stratigraphic incongruence · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 53 Dinter, C.M., Benson, R.B.J., McPhee, B.W., Choiniere, J.N. New associated basal sauropodomorph material from the Late Triassic lower Elliot Formation, Karoo Basin, Eastern Cape · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 53 Dollman, K.N., Choiniere, J.N. A study on the cranial anatomy of Lower Jurassic crocodylomorphs Protosuchus haughtoni and Litargosuchus leptorhynchus using 3D digital models · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 54 Duhamel, A., Rubidge, B.S., Benoit, J., Day, M. New burnetiid specimens add to understanding of Biarmosuchian taxonomy and ontogeny · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
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