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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Overview

Bruce S. Rubidge is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on paleontology and related disciplines.

Their work extends across several subfields including Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Earth-Surface Processes, Geology, and Global and Planetary Change. The main topics addressed in their research involve Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Geological formations and processes, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

The scientist's recent significant publications include:

  • Introduction to the tetrapod biozonation of the Karoo Supergroup, 2020, South African Journal of Geology
  • Early Triassic terrestrial tetrapod fauna: a review, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Biostratigraphy of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa, 2020, South African Journal of Geology
  • Non-mammaliaform cynodonts from western Gondwana and the significance of Argentinean forms in enhancing understanding of the group, 2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Biostratigraphy of the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa, 2020, South African Journal of Geology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bruce S. Rubidge include:

  • Michael O. Day
  • Julien Benoît
  • Fernando Abdala
  • Luke A. Norton
  • Jennifer Botha

Rubidge has published regularly in venues such as:

  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • South African Journal of Geology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

This scientist has received recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. Their contributions continue to advance knowledge in paleontology and earth sciences through interdisciplinary approaches spanning evolutionary biology and geological processes.

Best Publications

  • The Karoo basins of south-central Africa

    O. Catuneanu;H. Wopfner;P.G. Eriksson;B. Cairncross

  • 27th Du Toit Memorial LectureRe-uniting lost continents – Fossil reptiles from the ancient Karoo and their wanderlust

    Bruce S. Rubidge

  • A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa

    Robert W. Gess;Michael I. Coates;Bruce S. Rubidge

  • Evolutionary Patterns Among Permo-Triassic Therapsids *

    Bruce S. Rubidge;Christian A. Sidor

  • High-precision temporal calibration of Late Permian vertebrate biostratigraphy: U-Pb zircon constraints from the Karoo Supergroup, South Africa

    Bruce S. Rubidge;Douglas H. Erwin;Douglas H. Erwin;Jahandar Ramezani;Samuel A. Bowring

  • When and how did the terrestrial mid-Permian mass extinction occur? Evidence from the tetrapod record of the Karoo Basin, South Africa.

    Michael O. Day;Jahandar Ramezani;Samuel A. Bowring;Peter M. Sadler

  • Foredeep submarine fans and forebulge deltas: orogenic off-loading in the underfilled Karoo Basin

    O Catuneanu;P.J Hancox;B Cairncross;B.S Rubidge

  • The Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Lopingian), South Africa: A proposed biostratigraphy based on a new compilation of stratigraphic ranges

    Pia A. Viglietti;Roger M.H. Smith;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Christian F. Kammerer;Christian F. Kammerer

  • The amphibamid Micropholis from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South africa

    Rainer R. Schoch;Bruce S. Rubidge

  • Fluvial style variations in the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Elliot formation, main Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Emese M. Bordy;P. John Hancox;Bruce S. Rubidge

  • Basin development during the deposition of the Elliot Formation (Late Triassic - Early Jurassic), Karoo Supergroup, South Africa

    Emese M. Bordy;P. John Hancox;Bruce S. Rubidge

  • The most basal anomodont therapsid and the primacy of Gondwana in the evolution of the anomodonts

    Sean Modesto;Bruce Rubidge;Johann Welman

  • Breakthroughs in the biodiversity, biogeography, biostratigraphy, and basin analysis of the Beaufort group

    P.J Hancox;B.S Rubidge

  • Changes in Permo-Triassic terrestrial tetrapod ecological representation in the Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa

    Merrill Nicolas;Bruce S. Rubidge

  • Sequence analysis of the Ecca—Beaufort contact in the southern Karoo of South Africa

    B.S. Rubidge;P.J. Hancox;O. Catuneanu

  • Carnivorous dinocephalian from the Middle Permian of Brazil and tetrapod dispersal in Pangaea

    Juan Carlos Cisneros;Fernando Abdala;Saniye Atayman-Güven;Bruce S. Rubidge

  • THE OLDEST THEROCEPHALIANS (THERAPSIDA, EUTHERIODONTIA) AND THE EARLY DIVERSIFICATION OF THERAPSIDA

    Fernando Abdala;Bruce S. Rubidge;Juri Van Den Heever

  • A primitive anomodont therapsid from the base of the Beaufort Group (Upper Permian) of South Africa

    Bruce S. Rubidge;James A. Hopson

  • A New Lydekkerinid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa: Implications for Evolution of the Early Capitosauroid Cranial Pattern

    M. A. Shishkin;B. S. Rubidge;J. W. Kitching

  • Introduction to the tetrapod biozonation of the Karoo Supergroup

    R.M.H. Smith;B.S. Rubidge;M.O. Day;J. Botha

  • Dental Occlusion in a 260-Million-Year-Old Therapsid with Saber Canines from the Permian of Brazil

    Juan Carlos Cisneros;Juan Carlos Cisneros;Fernando Abdala;Bruce S. Rubidge;Paula Camboim Dentzien-Dias

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger M. H. Smith
Roger M. H. Smith University of the Witwatersrand
Paul R. Manger
Paul R. Manger University of the Witwatersrand
Kenneth D. Angielczyk
Kenneth D. Angielczyk Field Museum of Natural History
Christophe Lécuyer
Christophe Lécuyer Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Christian A. Sidor
Christian A. Sidor University of Washington
Octavian Catuneanu
Octavian Catuneanu University of Alberta
Marion K. Bamford
Marion K. Bamford University of the Witwatersrand
Frédéric Fluteau
Frédéric Fluteau Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Douglas H. Erwin
Douglas H. Erwin National Museum of Natural History

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