Jonah Choiniere, PhD
Professor of Dinosaur Paleontology
Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
Biography
Professor Choiniere is working on the evolution of basal sauropodomorphs, the terrestrial Triassic-Jurassic boundary, and he is starting to dabble in non-dinosaurian matters. His area of expertise is dinosaurian evolution. He has worked in China, Mongolia, South Africa and the USA collecting new dinosaur fossils. His current fieldwork is in the South African Karoo basin, where his has been working on figuring out the age and distribution of the dinosaurs that used to live there.
Disciplines
Dinosaurs, Triassic, Jurassic, Systematics, Fossils, Karoo Palaeontology
Fields of study
Taxonomy and palaeobiology of dinosaurs and basal archosaurs.
Awards and recognition
- 2020 NRF B rated Researcher
- 2014-2019 NRF P rated Researcher