Object Listing

female Diictodon skull from Grootfontein

Poortjie mb

Massospondylus eggshell from Upper Elliott Formation, Golden Gate Highland National Park

lower jaw with teeth

skullhoused at ESI, Wits

tooth

bone

Element: Snout, mandible, scapula, vertebra, lower right crowns exposed, other crowns obscured by matrix, presence of labial shelf suggests trirachodontid identification, note: shape of lower crowns not typical of trirachodontids but preservation poor
Maximum dimensions: 114mm x 63mm x 75mmHoused at ESI

BP/1/8010 is a small and delicate skeleton of an unidentified parareptile (presumably Broomia?). Size of specimen : 13cm x 11cm x 2cm

Small Parareptile skull and skeleton

Incomplete skull and lower jaw in occlusion of a cynodont. Length 55mm

Palacrodon jaw x 2 fragments and Nanoparia skull

 temporary export of a Nanoparia skull

Massospondylus eggshell from Upper Elliott Formation, Golden Gate Highland National Park

tooth

Element: Two maxillary? fragments, tooth crowns exposed but worn in one side, covered in matrix by the other, crowns trirachodontid in morphologyMaximum dimensions: 54mm x 24mm x 18mm and 40mm x 25mm x 22mmFrom Cynognathus Subzone C, Buffelskuil localityHoused at ESI

BP/1/8129:  Skull and partial skeleton of a gorgonopsian in 5 separate nodules. The material is partially prepared only. Bones seem to contain metallic nodules. Age: Tapinocephalus AZ. Housed at the evolutionary Studies Institute. Dimensions of each nodules (see also attached pictures):
- Snout: 10cm x 6cm x 7cm
- Braincase: 5cm x 6cm x 7cm
- Leg: 9cm x 3cm x 4cm
- Vertebral column: 13cm x 4cm x 5cm
- Phalanges: 6cm x 4cm x 3cm

Flat skull on a slab of a middle Permian unidentified anomodont from the middle Permian Sandkraal locality (South Africa). Evolutionary Studies Institute specimen. Dimensions: 13cm x 17cm x 3cm.