Karoo Palaeontology Department
 
 

Services offered

Casting

Our fossil preparators are fully trained in the casting of fossil vertebrates and traces. A list of available casts and models is given below:


Casts of fossils for sale at the National Museum

Item Genus Period Description
1 Dicroidium Triassic 21 cm, single leaf on grey background
2 Deiradoceras ammonite Cretaceous 26 cm, complete shell
3 Semionotus (small) Triassic 15 cm, fish in sandstone
4 Semionotus (large) Triassic 20 cm, fish in sandstone
5 Lydekkerina Triassic 12 cm, skull with palate and lower jaw
6 Mesosaurus Permian 28 cm, skeleton in grey-brown rock
7 Nanoparia Permian 18 cm, skull with palate
8 Procolophon Triassic 12 cm, skull and lower jaw
9 Pedeticosaurus Triassic 31 cm, skull and skeleton
10 Proterosuchus Triassic 119 cm, skull and skeleton
11 Proterosuchus Triassic 31 cm, skull
12 Euskelosuarus Triassic 70 cm, redbrown femur
13 Eodicynodon Permian 6 cm, skull and lower jaw
14 Eodicynodon Permian 30 cm, skull and skeleton with lower jaw
15 Oudenodon Permian 32 cm, skull and palate
16 Lystrosaurus Triassic 12 cm, skull with palate and lower jaw
17 Theriognathus Permian 19 cm, skull with palate
18 Moschorhinus Triassic 23 cm, skull with palate and lower jaw
19 Scaloposaurus Triassic 4 cm, skull
20 Olivierosuchus Triassic 20 cm, skull and partial skeleton
21 Procynosuchus Permian 10 cm, skull with palate and lower jaw
22 Procynosuchus Permian 42 cm, skull and skeleton
23 Thrinaxodon Triassic 6 cm, skull and lower jaw
24 Thrinaxodon Triassic 11 cm, skull with palate and lower jaw
25 Thrinaxodon Triassic 41 cm, skull and skeleton
26 Galesaurus Triassic 9 cm, skull with palate and lower jaw
27 Cynognathus Triassic 26 cm, skull with palate, no teeth, lower jaw
       

 


Models of fossils for sale at the National Museum

(approx. 25 cm)

Item Genus Period
1 Tapinocephalus Permian
2 Proterosuchus Triassic
3 Erythrosuchus Triassic
4 Lystrosaurus Triassic
5 Thrinaxodon Triassic
6 Melanorosaurus Triassic
7 Massospondylus Triassic

Thin sectioning

The Department contains a fully functional bone histology laboratory for the thin sectioning and analysis of fossil bone microstructure.