User:Luke Norton

Background

I am currently a postgraduate student at the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town in 2006, specialising in Biodiversity & Evolutionary Biology and Zoology, before making the move to Wits at the beginning of 2007 to complete my Honours degree in Palaeontology. My main interest lies in the evolution of early synapsids. At the moment I am working on the skull morphology of a carnivorous group known as the Gorgonopsia, under the supervision of Prof. B.S. Rubidge and Dr N.F. Abdala. Prof. Rubidge and I are also involved in a project with Dr P. Tafforeau of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France.

Articles I have started

Dinocephalia,  Gorgonopsia,  Hyaenas as taphonomic agents

Websites

my blog: http://dinogorgon.blogspot.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lnorton