Roy Oosthuizen picks up the nodule on Zwartkraal

the 1980s · local · Prince Albert

A slightly flattened, egg-shaped nodule weathered out of mudstone. He asked his son to hold it while he struck it with a hammer; it broke into three and showed what he took for a fossilised shark skull. He described it, boxed it and sent it to the South African Museum. DATE DELIBERATELY IMPRECISE: the sources say 'some time in the 1980s' and 'the early 1980s' and neither gives a year.

Who is on record here

• 1923 Roy Don Oosthuizen

Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.

Sources

• Rose Willis & Doreen Atkinson, "Zeekoegat: Explorations in the Koup Karoo" (2022) 38pp cameo

Told in

• subject Roy Oosthuizen's fossil