![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/fosshand.jpg) Right forelimb and foot of a gorgonopsian therapsid (Karoo Sequence: Beaufort Group, Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/fish.jpg) Palaeoniscoid fish, Semionotus capensis, from the Clarens Formation (Karoo Sequence: Stormberg Group - Early Jurassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/slide2.jpg) Microscopic thin section of dinosaur bone to show histology (Coelophysis [formerly Syntarsus]- Early Jurassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/dinner.jpg) Block of siltstone from the Lystrosaurus Zone (Mid-Triassic), showing several temnospondyl amphibians (Lydekkerina) surrounding the skull of a dicynodont, Lystrosaurus. Karoo Sequence: Beaufort Group; Lystrosaurus Zone) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/lystro.jpg) Skull of a large specimen of the semi-aquatic dicynodont (plant-eating Mammal-like Reptile ), Lystrosaurus (Karoo Sequence: Beaufort Group; Lystrosaurus Zone; Mid Triassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/thrinax1.jpg) Almost complete skeleton of small cynodont therapsid, Thrinaxodon (Lystrosaurus Zone; Mid Triassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/cistec.jpg) Skeleton of small burrowing dicynodont therapsid ( mammal-like reptile ), Cistecephalus (Cistecephalus Zone - Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/gorgon2.jpg) Skull of a gorgonopsian Mammal-like Reptile , Arctognathus, (Karoo Sequence: Beaufort Group; Cistecephalus Zone - Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/lizfrog1.jpg) Skull of a temnospondyl ( labyrinthodont ) amphibian, Rhinesuchus (Karoo Sequence, Beaufort Group, Dicynodon Zone; Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/pollen1-1.jpg) Fossil pollen grain from a Gymnosperm ( coniferous ) plant, Striatobietites (Late Permian) [Highly magnified; size: 40x20 microns] |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/pollen2-1.jpg) Fossilised fern spore, Dictyophyllidites, Early Tertiary of southern Africa [Highly magnified; size: 30 microns from base to apex] |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/pollen3.jpg) Fossil pollen grain from an Angiosperm plant ( flowering plant ), Early Tertiary, southern Africa [Highly magnified; size: 25x15 microns] |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/pollen4.jpg) Fossil pollen grain of Compositae (daisy family), Early Tertiary, southern Africa [Highly magnified; size: 15x10 microns] |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/glossop3-1.jpg) Leaf of the Gondwanan seed-fern, Glossopteris (Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/woodsect-1.jpg) Microscopic thin-section of Miocene fossil wood (Legumenoxylon) from Namibia |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/wood2.jpg) Silicified stem of Rhexoxylon ( fossil wood ), Molteno Formation (Mid-Late Triassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/dicroid1-1.jpg) Part of frond of a seed-fern , Dicroidium (possibly the leaves of Rhexoxylon). Molteno Formation (Mid-Late Triassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/astero.jpg) Impression of frond of fern, Asterotheca, associated with the Glossopteris Flora (Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/fossil1.jpg) Skull of gorgonopsian therapsid, ( mammal-like reptile ), Aelurognathus (Karoo Sequence: Beaufort Group; Cistecephalus Zone, Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/gorgon1.jpg) Skull of the gorgonopsian therapsid ( mammal-like reptile ): Arctognathus curvimola. (Karoo Sequence: Beaufort Group; Cistecephalus Zone - Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/kannem1.jpg) Skull of the late-surviving dicynodont therapsid ( mammal-like reptile ), Kannemeyeria (Cynognathus Zone; Early Triassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/diademo.jpg) Skull of the cynodont therapsid ( mammal-like reptile ): Diademodon mastacus, juvenile. (Karoo Sequence: Beaufort Group; Cynognathus Zone - Late Triassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/diadem1.jpg) Top view of skull of advanced plant-eating cynodont therapsid, Diademodon (Cynognathus Zone, Early Triassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/snout.jpg) Snout of the theropod dinosaur, Syntarsus (Karoo Sequence: Stormberg Group, Middle Elliot Formation - Early Jurassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/erythro.jpg) Skull of the carnivorous thecodontian, Erythrosuchus africanus, from the Cynognathus Zone (Karoo Sequence: Beaufort Group - Late Triassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/masso3.jpg) Skull of juvenile prosauropod dinosaur, Massospondylus (Middle Elliot Formation - Early Jurassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/masso.jpg) Skull of adult prosauropod dinosaur, Massospondylus (Karoo Sequence: Stormberg Group; Middle Elliot Formation - Early Jurassic) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/sabre_t.jpg) Incomplete skull of sabre-toothed cat , Homotherium, from Makapansgat Cave (Plio-Pleistocene) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/hyena1-1.jpg) Skull of extinct hyaena from Makapansgat Cave (Plio-Pleistocene) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/dassie.jpg) Skulls of extinct giant hyrax ( dassie ), Gigantohyrax, from Makapansgat Cave (Plio-Pleistocene) flanking skull (top) of a member of the species which still occurs in the area today (Procavia) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/palate.jpg) Palate of the therocephalian therapsid, Moschorhinus (Karoo Sequence, Beaufort Group, Cistecephalus Zone: Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/pareia.jpg) Skull of adult and juvenile pareiasaurian stem-reptiles , Pareiasaurus (Cistecephalus Zone, Late Permian) |
![](/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-images/images-17/whaitsia.jpg) Skull of the therocephalian therapsid, Theriognathus (Whaitsia) (Karoo Sequence, Beaufort Group, Cistecephalus Zone: Late Permian) |