Luke A. Norton

Postdoctoral Fellow



Evolutionary Studies Institute

University of the Witwatersrand



Luke A. Norton

Postdoctoral Fellow


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Luke A. Norton

Postdoctoral Fellow



Evolutionary Studies Institute

University of the Witwatersrand




About me


I'm a vertebrate palaeontologist interested in the evolution of the Therapsida—the 250+ million year old ancestors to modern mammals. My research has focused primarily on determining tooth replacement patterns in the Therocephalia and Cynodontia.

Publications


First CT-assisted study of the palate and postcrania of Diarthrognathus broomi (Cynodontia, Probainognathia)


E.S. Lund, L.A. Norton, J. Benoit

The Anatomical Record, vol. 307(4), 2024, pp. 1538-1558


Cranial osteology and a new diagnosis of the late Permian pareiasaur Nanoparia luckhoffi (Broom, 1936) from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, and a consolidated pareiasaurian phylogeny


M.J. Van den Brandt, J.C. Cisneros, F. Abdala, E.I. Boyarinova, V.K. Golubev, L.A. Norton, V.J. Radermacher, B.S. Rubidge

Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, vol. 26(4), 2024, pp. 288-314


On taxonomic issues, ontogenetic series and tooth replacement. Comments on Diphyodont tooth replacement of Brasilodon—A Late Triassic eucynodont that challenges the time of origin of mammals by Cabreira et al.


F. Abdala, L.A. Norton, S.C. Jasinoski, J. Botha, V. Fernandez, B. Rubidge, P.G. Gill, A.G. Martinelli

Journal of Anatomy, vol. 242(4), 2023, pp. 737-742


The maxillary canal of the titanosuchid Jonkeria (Synapsida, Dinocephalia)


J. Benoit, L.A. Norton, S. Jirah

The Science of Nature, vol. 10(4), 2023, p. 27


Craniodental anatomy in Permian–Jurassic Cynodontia and Mammaliaformes (Synapsida, Therapsida) as a gateway to defining mammalian soft tissue and behavioural traits


L.A. Norton, F. Abdala, J. Benoit

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 378(1880), 2023, p. 20220084


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Projects


Tooth replacement patterns in Eutheriodontia


Ongoing study of the tooth replacement patterns in various eutheriodonts—the 250+ million year old ancestors to modern mammals—using X-ray microtomography.


Reconstructing destructively sampled fossil material


Serial grinding/sectioning was a popular practice to study fossils in the past. Records of the process of several South African fossils exist. This project will digitise these records in order to digitally reconstruct material previously lost to science.

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