Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan | |
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| Born | 27 August 1962 |
| Nationality | University of Witwatersrand, University of Durban-Westville |
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| Fields | paleontology |
| Institutions | University of Cape Town |
Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan is a
Education and career
Chinsamy-Turan received a B.Sc. from the
She is the author of six books; two academic works, The Microstructure of Dinosaur Bone - Deciphering Biology Through Fine Scale Techniques, published in 2005, by the Johns Hopkins University Press and Forerunners of Mammals -Radiation. Biology published by the Indiana University Press in 2012; a children's book, Famous dinosaurs of Africa, published in 2008, and a popular level book, Fossils For Africa, published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press. Her two most recent books (2021) are for children and are entitled "Dinosaurs and other Prehistoric life" and " African Dinosaurs".
Awards
Chinsamy-Turan won "Distinguished Women Scientist Award" from the
In 2013, she won
Lokotunjailurus chinsamyae now has a sabre-tooth cat species named after her.[5]
Selected publications
- Chinsamy, A, Buffetaut, E, Angst, D., Canoville, A. 2014. Insight into the growth dynamics and systematic affinities of the Late Cretaceous Gargantuavis from bone microstructure. Naturwissenschaften101:447-452
- Chinsamy, A., Chiappe, L., Marugán-Lobón, J., Chunling, G. and Fengjiao, Z. 2013. Gender Identification of the Mesozoic bird Confuciusornis sanctus. Nature Communications.
- Chinsamy, A. Thomas, D. B., Tumarkin-Deratzian, A. & A. Fiorillo. 2012. Hadrosaurs were perennial polar residents. Anatomical Record, 295 (4): 551–714.
- Jasinoski, S.C. and A. Chinsamy. 2012. Mandibular histology and growth of the non-mammaliaform cynodont Tritylodon. Journal of Anatomy, 220 (6): 564–579.
- Cerda, I. A. & Chinsamy. 2012. Biological Implications of the bone microstructure of the Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32(2):355-368.
- Chinsamy, A., Codorniu, L. and L. Chiappe. 2009 The Bone Microstructure of Pterodaustro guinazui. Anatomical Record292: 1462–1477.
- Chinsamy, A., and Tumarkin-Deratzian, A. 2009. Pathological bone tissue in a turkey vulture and a nonavian dinosaur. Anatomical Record292: 1478-1484
External links
- Website at University of Cape Town Archived 15 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Publications by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan at ResearchGate
References
- ^ "Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan". Biological Sciences - UCT. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ^ "Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan | Department of Biological Sciences". www.botany.uct.ac.za. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ^ "Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan". University of Cape Town. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ^ "Dinosaurs: How we know what we know – Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan". Cape Town Science Centre.
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