User:Luke Norton

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. I am currently working on a group of therapsids (mammal-like reptiles) known as the Gorgonopsia, under the supervision of Prof. B.S. Rubidge and Dr N.F. Abdala.

My research interests lie in vertebrate palaeontology, especially the mammal-like reptiles and dinosaurs of southern Africa. I have participated on various field excursions, including trips to the Eastern Cape, Free State, Western Cape and Limpopo Provinces of South Africa.