<p dir="ltr">These images are from my MSc project titled 'Taxonomic and palaeobiological description of South African mosasaurids', which I completed in 2020 and can be found through OpenUCT: Woolley, M. R. (2021). Taxonomic and palaeobiological assessment of the South African mosasaurids.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">They are histological micrographs of a fossilised <i>Prognathodon </i>tooth (CGP/1/2265) from Pondoland, Eastern Cape. More information about the tooth and specimen in published article: Woolley, M. R., Chinsamy, A., & Caldwell, M. W. (2022). Unraveling the taxonomy of the South African mosasaurids. <i>Frontiers in Earth Science</i>, <i>10</i>, 971968. </p><p dir="ltr">These images were taken in 2019 at the University of Cape Town, Department of Biological Sciences by Megan Rose Woolley. </p>
Funding
National Research Foundation (NRF), African Origins Platform grant (number 117716)