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
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