Publikationen

A new study of a tiny Triassic fossil reptile that was first discovered over 100 years ago in Scotland has revealed what the ancestors of pterosaurs could have looked like.

New article on Silurian sea level has been published in Lithosphere based on the collaboration between Dr. David C. Ray (University of Birmingham), Dr. Emilia Jarochowska, Lene Claußen and colleagues at universities of Worcester and Uppsala.

Former GeoZentrum postdoctoral research, Dr. Femke Holwerda (currently at Dr Betsy Nicholls Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology) together with colleagues at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (Argentina) has revised Middle Jurassic sauropod Patagosaurus fariasi based on its holotype from Cerro Cóndor North, Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Patagonia, Argentina.

Is clustering of extinctions really an increase in extinction rate or is it merely generated by reduced sedimentation rates that reduce the spacing between individual extinctions with long breaks between each other? Niklas Hohmann, Paleobiology Master student, has examined this question in his Bachelor thesis, which is now published in PALAIOS (Hohmann 2021).

Abrupt changes in environmental signals recorded in an interval of strata can be the result of (1) fast changes in environmental conditions and average sedimentation rate or (2) average changes in environmental conditions and slow sedimentation rate. The new study by Dr. Emilia Jarochowska and co-authors, published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, proposes a method to estimate relative changes in depositional rates and test it in a sedimentary section

The first paper of our PhD student Bryan Shirley has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The co-authors are Madleen Grohganz, whose BSc thesis has contributed important data to the paper, Michel Bestmann from the Structural Geology group of the GeoZentrum, and Emilia Jarochowska. T...

Connecting seemingly unrelated fields in science can yield surprising and fruitful insights and be the cause of great surprise. Who could have guesses that the way the geological record hides extinctions from us is mathematically equivalent to the methods teenagers use hide their pimples on thei...

Nussaïbah B. Raja, Masterstudentin in Paläobiologie, zeigt in ihrem letztens publizierten Artikel, dass die Häufigkeit der extremen Niederschlagsereignisauf Mauritius zwischen 1981 und 2010 gestiegen ist.

Forschern um Prof. Manuel Steinbauer von der Professur für System-Paläobiologie der FAU ist es zusammen mit Wissenschaftlern aus elf Ländern gelungen, erstmals zu belegen, dass die Artenvielfalt auf Berggipfeln in ganz Europa ansteigt und dass dies immer schneller geschieht. Die Ergebnisse haben sie in der Fachzeitschrift Nature publiziert.

Prof. Wolfgang Kießling vom Lehrstuhl für Paläoumwelt wurde als Autor für den Expertenbericht des IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) berufen. Die Berichte des IPCC, oft als „Weltklimarat“ bezeichnet, gelten als Grundlage der weltweiten Klimapolitik.