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University of Cape Town Faculty of Science: Rondebosch, ZA

Head of Department (Biological Sciences)
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Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan

Iziko South African Museum: Cape Town, ZA

2000 to 2002 | Director (Natural History)
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University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Science: Johannesburg, ZA

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University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA, US

1994 to 1996 | postdoc (Anatomy)
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Palaeobiology and osteohistology of South African sauropodomorph dinosaurs

Journal of Anatomy
2025-02-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/joa.14229
Contributors: Fay‐yaad Toefy; Emil Krupandan; Anusuya Chinsamy
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A Reassessment of the Cranial Diversity of the West African Giraffe

International Journal of Zoology
2025-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1155/ijz/8816347
Contributors: Nikolaos Kargopoulos; Jesús Marugán-Lobón; Anusuya Chinsamy; Michael Brown; Stephanie Fennessy; Sara Ferguson; Alice Petzold; Sven Winter; Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou; Julian Fennessy et al.
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Analyzing the Life History of Caimans: The Growth Dynamics of <i>Caiman latirostris</i> From an Osteohistological Approach

Journal of Morphology
2025-01-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.70010
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Contributors: Eugenia PM; Bona P; Siroski P; Chinsamy-Turan A
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Life history data derived from the dental histological analysis of Giraffa camelopardalis: Implications for the palaeohistology of extinct giraffids

Journal of Anatomy
2025-01-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/joa.14191
Contributors: Carmen Nacarino‐Meneses; Juan Marcos Jannello; Anusuya Chinsamy
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Heads up–Four Giraffa species have distinct cranial morphology

PLoS ONE
2024-12-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315043
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Contributors: Kargopoulos N; Marugán-Lobón J; Chinsamy A; Agwanda BR; Brown MB; Fennessy S; Ferguson S; Hoffman R; Lala F; Muneza A et al.
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University of Cape Town

Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2024-11-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02574-7
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Contributors: Chinsamy-Turan A
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Multiple exostoses and an osteochondroma in a Pliocene canid from Langebaanweg ‘E’ Quarry (South Africa)

Journal of Anatomy
2024-09-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/joa.14133
Contributors: Anusuya Chinsamy; Alberto Valenciano
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Geometric morphometric analysis of an ontogenetic cranial series of the Permian dicynodont Diictodon feliceps

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2024-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0626
Contributors: Caitlin Rabe; Jesús Marugán-Lobón; Roger M. H. Smith; Anusuya Chinsamy
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Ontogenetic and interelemental study of appendicular bones of Caiman latirostris Daudin, 1802 sheds light on osteohistological variability in crocodylians

Journal of Morphology
2024-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21687
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Contributors: Pereyra M; Bona P; Siroski P; Chinsamy-Turan A
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University of Cape Town

Good vibrations: remote-tactile foraging success of wading birds is positively affected by the water content of substrates they forage in

Journal of Avian Biology
2024-04-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jav.03243
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Part of ISSN: 0908-8857
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Contributors: Du Toit C; Chinsamy-Turan A; Cunningham S
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A new enantiornithine specimen from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas: avifaunal diversity and life-history of a wetland Mesozoic bird

Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
2023-12-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7203/sjp.26504
Contributors: Sergio M. Nebreda; Luis M. Chiappe; Guillermo Navalon; Anusuya Chinsamy; José L. Sanz; Angela D. Buscalioni; Jesús Marugán-Lobón
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Palaeoecological deductions from osteohistology

Biology Letters
2023-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0245
Contributors: Anusuya Chinsamy
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Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa

The Anatomical Record
2023-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ar.25038
Contributors: Catherine A. Forster; William J. de Klerk; Karen E. Poole; Anusuya Chinsamy‐Turan; Eric M. Roberts; Callum F. Ross
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Osteohistology of Dromornis stirtoni (Aves: Dromornithidae) and the biological implications of the bone histology of the Australian mihirung birds

The Anatomical Record
2023-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ar.25047
Contributors: Anusuya Chinsamy; Warren D. Handley; Trevor H. Worthy
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Osteohistology and palaeobiology of giraffids from the Mio‐Pliocene Langebaanweg (South Africa)

Journal of Anatomy
2023-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13825
Contributors: Juan Marcos Jannello; Anusuya Chinsamy
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Paleobiological implications of the bone histology of the extinct Australian marsupial Nimbadon lavarackorum

Journal of Paleontology
2023-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2023.22
Contributors: Anusuya Chinsamy; Karen H. Black; Suzanne J. Hand; Michael Archer
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A new enantiornithine specimen from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas avifaunal diversity and life-history of a wetland Mesozoic bird [Un nuevo espécimen de enantiornita del Cretácico Inferior de Las Hoyas diversidad avifaunística e his-toria vital de un ave mesozoica de humedal]

Spanish Journal of Paleontology
2023-05-11 | Journal article
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Contributors: NEBREDA SM ,CHIAPPE LM; NAVALÓN G,CHINSAMY A ,SANZ JL; BUSCALIONI ÁD; MARUGÁN-LOBÓN J
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Bone histology of Neogene angulate tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from South Africa: palaeobiological and skeletochronological implications

Royal Society Open Science
2023-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230064
Contributors: Mohd Shafi Bhat; Anusuya Chinsamy; John Parkington
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Mineralized-tissue histology reveals protracted life history in the Pliocene three-toed horse from Langebaanweg (South Africa)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2022-11-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab037
Contributors: Carmen Nacarino-Meneses; Anusuya Chinsamy
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Comparative morphology and soft tissue histology of the remote‐touch bill‐tip organ in three ibis species of differing foraging ecology

Journal of Anatomy
2022-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13734
Contributors: Carla J. du Toit; Anusuya Chinsamy; Susan J. Cunningham
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Functional anatomy and disparity of the postcranial skeleton of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2022-10-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.857474
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Contributors: Montoya Sanhueza G; Bennett NC; Chinsamy-Turan A; Sumbera R
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Taxonomic and palaeobiological implications of a large, pathological sabretooth (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Lower Pliocene of South Africa

Papers in Palaeontology
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1463
Contributors: Caitlin Rabe; Anusuya Chinsamy; Alberto Valenciano; Mary Silcox
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Palaeobiology of the early sauropodomorph Mussaurus patagonicus inferred from its long bone histology

Palaeontology
2022-07-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12614
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Contributors: Cerda IA; Pol D; Otero Al; Chinsamy A
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New Comparative Data on the Long Bone Microstructure of Large Extant and Extinct Flightless Birds

Diversity
2022-04-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/d14040298
Contributors: Aurore Canoville; Anusuya Chinsamy; Delphine Angst
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Bone histology of dinocephalians (Therapsida, Dinocephalia): palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences

Papers in Palaeontology
2022-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1411
Contributors: Mohd Shafi Bhat; Christen D. Shelton; Anusuya Chinsamy; Kenneth Angielczyk
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Histological investigation of burnt bones: A case study of angulate tortoises from the archaeological site, Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
2021-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/oa.2986
Contributors: Mohd Shafi Bhat; Anusuya Chinsamy; John Parkington
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Microanatomy and histology of bone pathologies of extant and extinct phocid seals

Historical Biology
2021-08-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2019.1689238
Contributors: Megan R. Woolley; Anusuya Chinsamy; Romala Govender; Marthán N. Bester
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Bone remodeling in the longest living rodent, the naked mole‐rat: Interelement variation and the effects of reproduction

Journal of Anatomy
2021-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13404
Contributors: Germán Montoya‐Sanhueza; Nigel C. Bennett; Maria K. Oosthuizen; Christine M. Dengler‐Crish; Anusuya Chinsamy
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Long bone histomorphogenesis of the naked mole‐rat: Histodiversity and intraspecific variation

Journal of Anatomy
2021-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13381
Contributors: Germán Montoya‐Sanhueza; Nigel C. Bennett; Maria K. Oosthuizen; Christine M. Dengler‐Crish; Anusuya Chinsamy
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Histovariability and Palaeobiological Implications of the Bone Histology of the Dromornithid, Genyornis newtoni

Diversity
2021-05-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/d13050219
Contributors: Anusuya Chinsamy; Trevor H. Worthy
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Bone histology, palaeobiology, and early diagenetic history of extinct equids from Turkey

Quaternary Research
2021-03-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/qua.2020.87
Contributors: Carmen Nacarino-Meneses; Anusuya Chinsamy; Serdar Mayda; Tanju Kaya; Ugur Cengiz Erismis
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Ontogenetic growth and the development of a unique fibrocartilage entheses in Macropus fuliginosus

Zoology
2021-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2020.125860
Contributors: Anusuya Chinsamy; Natalie M. Warburton
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Cretaceous origins of the vibrotactile bill-tip organ in birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020-12-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2322
Contributors: C. J. du Toit; A. Chinsamy; S. J. Cunningham
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Bone histology yields insights into the biology of the extinct elephant birds (Aepyornithidae) from Madagascar

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
2020-06-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa013
Contributors: Anusuya Chinsamy; Delphine Angst; Aurore Canoville; Ursula B Göhlich
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Osteohistology and Life History of the Basal Pygostylian, Confuciusornis sanctus

The Anatomical Record
2020-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ar.24282
Contributors: Anusuya Chinsamy; Jesús Marugán‐Lobón; Francisco J. Serrano; Luis Chiappe
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Sex and Ontogenetic Variation in the Crest of Numida meleagris: Implications for Crested Vertebrates

The Anatomical Record
2020-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ar.24275
Contributors: Delphine Angst; Jonathan Barnoud; Raphaël Cornette; Anusuya Chinsamy
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A new baby oviraptorid dinosaur (dinosauria: Theropoda) from the upper cretaceous nemegt formation of Mongolia

PLoS ONE
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210867
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Contributors: Lee, S.; Lee, Y.-N.; Chinsamy, A.; Lü, J.; Barsbold, R.; Tsogtbaatar, K.
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Postnatal development of the largest subterranean mammal (Bathyergus suillus): Morphology, osteogenesis, and modularity of the appendicular skeleton

Developmental Dynamics
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.81
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Contributors: Montoya-Sanhueza, G.; Wilson, L.A.B.; Chinsamy, A.
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Long bone histology of Chersina angulata : Interelement variation and life history data

Journal of Morphology
2019-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21073
Contributors: Mohd Shafi Bhat; Anusuya Chinsamy; John Parkington
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Osteomyelitis in a 265-million-year-old titanosuchid (Dinocephalia, Therapsida)

Historical Biology
2019-09-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1419348
Contributors: Christen D. Shelton; Anusuya Chinsamy; Bruce M. Rothschild
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Cortical bone adaptation and mineral mobilization in the subterranean mammal Bathyergus suillus (Rodentia: Bathyergidae): Effects of age and sex

PeerJ
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4944
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Contributors: Montoya-Sanhueza, G.; Chinsamy, A.
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The Long Bone Histology of the Sauropodomorph, Antetonitrus ingenipes

Anatomical Record
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23898
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Contributors: Krupandan, E.; Chinsamy-Turan, A.; Pol, D.
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A new Jurassic theropod from China documents a transitional step in the macrostructure of feathers

Die Naturwissenschaften
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-017-1496-y
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Contributors: Lefèvre, U.; Cau, A.; Cincotta, A.; Hu, D.; Chinsamy, A.; Escuillié, F.; Godefroit, P.
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Bone histology sheds new light on the ecology of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus, Aves, Columbiformes)

Scientific Reports
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08536-3
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Contributors: Angst, D.; Chinsamy, A.; Steel, L.; Hume, J.P.
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Bone Microstructure of Pareiasaurs (Parareptilia) from the Karoo Basin, South Africa: Implications for Growth Strategies and Lifestyle Habits

Anatomical Record
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23534
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Contributors: Canoville, A.; Chinsamy, A.
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Long bone histology of the subterranean rodent Bathyergus suillus (Bathyergidae): ontogenetic pattern of cortical bone thickening

Journal of Anatomy
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12547
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Contributors: Montoya-Sanhueza, G.; Chinsamy, A.
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Novel insight into the origin of the growth dynamics of sauropod dinosaurs

PLoS ONE
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179707
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Contributors: Cerda, I.A.; Chinsamy, A.; Pol, D.; Apaldetti, C.; Otero, A.; Powell, J.E.; Martínez, R.N.
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The environmental and socially engaged palaeontologist – suggestions for action at conferences and beyond

Palaeontologia Electronica
2017 | Journal article
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Contributors: Sánchez-Villagra, M.R.; Aguirre-Fernández, G.; Chinsamy-Turan, A.; Badgley, C.
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A late Miocene–early Pliocene baleen whale assemblage from Langebaanweg, west coast of South Africa (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)

Alcheringa
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2016.1159413
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2-s2.0-84975522718
Contributors: Govender, R.; Bisconti, M.; Chinsamy, A.
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A new titanosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

Cretaceous Research
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.07.001
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2-s2.0-84978542876
Contributors: Ghilardi, A.M.; Aureliano, T.; Duque, R.R.C.; Fernandes, M.A.; Barreto, A.M.F.; Chinsamy, A.
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