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James Kitching, the Glossary

James William Kitching (6 February 1922 – 24 December 2003) was a South African vertebrate palaeontologist and regarded as one of the world’s greatest fossil finders.^[1]

28 relations: Africa, Antarctica, Australopithecus, Beaufort Group, Bennett Platform, Egg fossil, Evolutionary Studies Institute, Fossil, Golden Gate Highlands National Park, Gondwana, Karoo, Lystrosaurus, Makapansgat, Massospondylus, Nieu-Bethesda, Ohio State University, Pleistocene, Queen Maud Mountains, Raymond Dart, Robert Broom, Robert R. Reisz, Shackleton Glacier, Smithsonian Institution, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Therapsida, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Toronto, Vertebrate paleontology.

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Australopithecus

Australopithecus is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.

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Beaufort Group

The Beaufort Group is the third of the main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa.

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Bennett Platform

Bennett Platform is a high, nearly flat, snow-free mesa of dark rock of Antarctica, about long and wide, located immediately east of Mount Black, on the west side of Shackleton Glacier.

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Egg fossil

Egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by ancient animals.

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Evolutionary Studies Institute

The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) is a paleontological, paleoanthropological and archeological research institute operated through the Faculty of Science of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Golden Gate Highlands National Park

Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, South Africa, near the Lesotho border.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Karoo

The Karoo (from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa.

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Lystrosaurus

Lystrosaurus ('shovel lizard'; proper Greek is lístron ‘tool for leveling or smoothing, shovel, spade, hoe’) is an extinct genus of herbivorous dicynodont therapsids from the late Permian and Early Triassic epochs (around 250 million years ago).

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Makapansgat

Makapansgat (or Makapan Valley World Heritage Site) is an archaeological location within the Makapansgat and Zwartkrans Valleys, northeast of Mokopane in Limpopo province, South Africa.

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Massospondylus

Massospondylus (from Greek, μάσσων (massōn, "longer") and σπόνδυλος (spondylos, "vertebra")) was a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago).

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Nieu-Bethesda

Nieu-Bethesda (Afrikaans for New Bethesda) is a village in the Eastern Cape at the foot of the Sneeuberge, approximately north of Graaff Reinet.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica.

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Raymond Dart

Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province.

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Robert Broom

Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 6 April 1951) was a British- South African medical doctor and palaeontologist.

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Robert R. Reisz

Robert Rafael Reisz is a Canadian paleontologist and specialist in the study of early amniote and tetrapod evolution.

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Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from wide, descending from the Antarctic Plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Mount Speed and Waldron Spurs.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kitching

Also known as James W. Kitching, Kitching, James.

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