Western Cape Gravel Monkeys
G’day,
Welcome to the homepage of the Western Cape Gravel Monkeys (WCGM); a recently developed research initiative in the Department of Earth Sciences, at Stellenbosch University (SU), South Africa. The WCGM is a collaborative effort between SU staff and students, which focuses on providing contextual information for continental fossils assemblages preserved in the sedimentary rock record. Furthermore, the WCGM seeks to provide its students with the opportunity to conduct dynamic and multifaceted research projects within a global network of highly motivated and actively engaged researchers.
Currently, the WCGM is conducting fieldwork with researchers, institutions and universities across Southern Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. Within each project, topics of research include palaeoecology, vertebrate taphonomy, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, radiometric dating (geochronology), basin tectonics and evolution, and continental ichnology.