Cretaceous Fossils of South-Central Africa

Michael Cooper has a D. Phil. from Oxford University where he was a Wolfson Scholar, and is Honorary Curator of Palaeontology at the Durban Natural Science Museum, as well as an Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has studied the Cretaceous geology and palaeontology of south-central Africa for almost 50 years, concerned mainly with the biostratigraphy, evolution and classification of the molluscan faunas (ammonites, bivalves) and echinoids. He has published over 120 scientific articles on these subjects, his research involving fieldwork in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola.

• Introduction Eustasy Milankovitch cycles The break-up of Gondwana Vicariance The terminal Cretaceous extinction event Regional GeologyNamibia Northern Cape Western Cape Lesotho Swaziland Eastern Cape KwaZulu-Natal Moçambique ZimbabweAngola Malawi Zambia Tanzania References Illustrations of Cretaceous fossils