# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anusuya-chinsamy-turan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:50:22.358Z

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name: "Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan"
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description: "Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan is a South African vertebrate paleontologist known for her expertise and developments in the study of the microstructure of fossil teeth and bones of extinct and extant vertebrates. She was the head of the Department of Biological Sciences, at the University of Cape Town from 2012 to 2015."
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birthDate: "1962-08-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump