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This proposal is to allow the CGS specimen CGP 1/44 to be travel to France to be scanned at the European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF) at Grenoble between 2-10 July 2014. Beamtime has been allocated to Prof Bruce Rubidge during this time.

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A cast of a burrow infill (specimen number CGP/1/ 44 [previously numbered GSA 1/44]) contains some bone preserved within the burrow-fill, but this was never expossed as it would require very delicate physical preparation. As only pieces of bone are exposed from the cast of GSA 1/44, it is not possible to determine at this stage how much of the animal is preserved but as scanning is non-destructive it provides a good mechanism to study the bones of animals preserved inside the burrow without destroying the burrow. This is part of a larger long term research project of the Evolutionary Science Institute (at Wits) to scan burrow infills from the Karoo Supergroup in an effort to find evidence which can lead to an understanding of the palaeobiology of the burrow occupants. In the past Rubidge and his team obtained very good results by scanning burrow casts at the ESRF and last year published a paper describing a remarkable occurrence of a therapsid and an amphibian preserved together in a burrow cast from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group. (FERNANDEZ, V., ABDALA, F., CARLSON, K. J., RUBIDGE, B. S., YATES, A., & TAFFOREAU, P. 2013. Synchrotron Reveals Early Triassic Odd Couple: Injured Amphibian and Aestivating Therapsid Share Burrow. PLOS ONE, 8(6), e64978.).

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Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 10:57

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5797

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  1. PDF icon Lystrosaurus Zone burrow cast_JN.pdf
 
 

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