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 samples have been sent to MIT for dating, and last week we heard that most of the samples have many dateable zircons so we will hopefully get good dating results soon.
About This Project
For palaeontologists, the South African Karoo is legendary, not only for its appealing wilderness, but mostly because of its great fossil discoveries. A 200 million year old skull or skeleton can pop up below every single step you make! Although vertebrate fossils have been known in the Karoo for more than a century, its exploration is far from complete and new species are discovered on almost every expedition. This project aims to explore the oldest terrestrial deposits of the Karoo.
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