Current Students

• Ms Nteboheleng Mokhohlane (Honours full time; Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Bone microstructure of mongooses: insights for the ecology of extinct taxa. 2024-
• Ms Lutendo Mukwevho (PhD full time; Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Anatomy, phylogenetic systematics and growth patterns of new theropod dinosaurs from the Triassic-Jurassic of southern Africa. 2024-
• Ms Atashni Moopen (PhD full time; Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) South Africa's earliest giants: phylogenetic systematics and the transition to quadrupedality in Sauropodomorpha. 2023-
• Mr Brandon Stuart (PhD full time; Univ. of the Free State, South Africa) Morphological and phylogenetic trends in the Therocephalia. 2023-
• Mr Bailey Weiss (PhD full time; Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) The origin of crocodilians: functional anatomy, growth history, systematics, and phenotypic variation. 2022-
• Ms Caroline Abbott (PhD full time; Univ. of Chicago, USA) ­­­­­­The Lilliput Effect and other life history responses to biotic crises: A case study of Lystrosaurus (Therapsida: Anomodontia) during the Permo-Triassic transition. 2022-

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Graduated Students

• Ms Enele Twala (Honours full time; Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Growth history, phylogenetics and taxonomy of a new armoured archosaur from the Elliot Formation of South Africa. 2022
• Mr Brandon Stuart (Honours; Univ. of the Free State, South Africa) The postcranial skeletal morphology of the akidnognathid Moschorhinus kitchingi (Therapsida: Therocephalia). 2020
• Mr Bailey Weiss (Honours; Univ. of the Free State, South Africa) Limb bone histology of theropod dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic of South Africa. 2019
• Ms Mariaan de Wet (Honours; Univ. of the Free State, South Africa) Palaeontology Module only. 2019
• Ms Atashni Moopen (MSc full time; Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) South Africa's earliest giant: The systematics and palaeobiology of a new species of sauropodomorph. 2021-2022
• Mr Brandon Stuart (MSc full time; Univ. of the Free State, South Africa) The postcranial skeleton of the therocephalians Moschorhinus kitchingi and Theriognathus microps. 2021-2022
• Mr Bailey Weiss (MSc; Univ. of the Free State, South Africa) Bone microanatomy of Anomodontia (Synapsida: Therapsida) from the Karoo Basin of South Africa. 2020-2021
• Ms Elize Butler (MSc part time; Univ. of the Free State, South Africa) The postcranial skeleton of the Early Triassic non-mammalian cynodont Galesaurus planiceps: implications for biology and lifestyle. 2007-2010
• Mr Dewald du Plessis (MSc full time; Univ. of the Free State South Africa) An examination of non-mammalian cynodont cranial endocasts. 2008-2010
• Ms Kara Ludwig (MSc full time; Univ. of Bristol, UK) Unearthing the roots of mammalian diversity: the quality of the cynodont fossil record. 2013
• Mr Alexander Botha (MSc full time; Univ. of the Free State, South Africa) Comparative bone histology of Stigmochelys pardalis (leopard tortoise), with specific reference to ontogeny and biomechanics. 2015-2017
• Dr Luke Norton (PhD full time; Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Tooth replacement patterns in Eutheriodontia (Synapsida, Therapsida) from the South African Karoo Supergroup. 2013-2019
• Dr Fabio Veiga (PhD part time; Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Bone histology patterns in fossil tetrapods from the Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Paleobiological implications. 2014-2019
• Dr Kimberley Chapelle (PhD full time; Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) The ontogeny and taxonomy of the basal sauropodomorph dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus (Owen, 1854). 2018-2019
• Dr Adam Huttenlocker (PhD full time; Univ. of Washington, USA) The paleobiology of South African therocephalian therapsids (Amniota, Synapsida) and the effects of the end-Permian extinction on size, growth, and bone microstructure. 2009-2013

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Dr Lucas Legendre (2016-2018) Osteohistological markers for burrowing in the largest burrowing mammal (Orycteropus afer)
• Dr Jacqueline Codron (2014-2016) Ecological interactions amongst therapsid carnivores in South African Permo-Triassic foodwebs.
• Dr Daryl Codron (2012-2013) Linking body size to species richness and diversity in Permo-Triassic vertebrate assemblages