Lothar Schöllmann

LWL-Museum für Naturkunde

The iconic Kupferschiefer is a stratigraphic marker horizon of the Upper Permian in Northern and Central Europe, which is recognized internationally as a unique stratum because of its outstanding preservation of fish, reptile, and plant fossils. In the UNESCO Global Geopark TERRA.vita, Kupferschiefer fossils have been found at three tectonically up...

Private fossil collections are an important pillar within the palaeontological sciences. With their special local knowledge and mostly many years of activity, regional collectors make an important contribution for the reconstruction and documentation of past living worlds. This contribution deals with the taxonomic/systematic evaluation of a privat...

Isopods belong to the very rare fossil remains in the Triassic. Until now, only six species are known. The isopod which is described in the present paper is only the second evidence from the Muschelkalk. It was discovered in sedimentary layers of the "Tonplattenfazies" of the Upper Muschelkalk and can be assigned stratigraphically to the Latest Ani...

During an excavation project of the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen (LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Paläontologische Bodendenkmalpflege), in the Hohne quarry of the Dyckerhoff AG in Lengerich 20 skeletons or parts of skeletons of the stalked cirripede Stramentum (Stramentum) pulchellum were excavated. The layers in which t...

During an excavation project of the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen (LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Paläontologische Bodendenkmalpflege), in the Hohne quarry of the Dyckerhoff AG in Lengerich 20 skeletons or parts of skeletons of the stalked cirripede Stramentum (Stramentum) pulchellum were excavated. The layers in which t...

Specimens of Euproops sp. (Xiphosura, Chelicerata) from the Carboniferous Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück, Germany, represent a relatively complete growth series of 10 stages. Based on this growth sequence, morphological changes throughout the ontogeny can be identified. The major change affects the shape of the epimera of the opisthosoma. In earlie...

Non-marine bivalves from two different localities, the Rudolf mining dump at the Schafberg near Ibbenbüren and from the Schläge well near Voerde north of Duisburg, Ruhr area, were studied in a project of the Natural History Museum of Münster, Germany. Only few specimens of the faunas are weil preserved and were assigned to taxa of the genera Naiadi...

The first fossil remains of a protostegid turtle from the upper Cretaceous of northwestern Germany are described and discussed. The material includes a carapace and a plastron which belong to the best preserved material of this species discovered to date.

In this further paper on trilobites from the Ordovician of the Ebbe Anticline (Rhenish Massif, Germany) new finds of trilobites as well as hitherto unconsidered specimens are described and figured, and the first prove of a raphiophorid trilobite in the German Ordovician is recorded. Additionally a general survey of all Ordovician Ebbe localities is...

Scalpelliform cirripedes [order Scalpelliformes Buckeridge & Newman, 2006] of the genus Stramentum Logan are known from different mid- to early Late Cretaceous (Albian-Santonian) facies in Europe, North, Central and South America, the Near East, Africa and Japan. Stramentum (S.) pulchellum (G.B. Sowerby) occurs in the Cenomanian and Turonian of Eng...

In this further paper on trilobites from the Ordovician of the Ebbe Anticline (Rhenish Massif, Germany) new finds of trilobites as well as hitherto unconsidered specimens are described and figured, and the first prove of a raphiophorid trilobite in the German Ordovician is recorded. Additionally a general survey of all Ordovician Ebbe localities is...

During the excavation in Hagen-Vorhalle a great number of Archaestomatopoda of the Vorhalle Layers (Namurian B, Carboniferous) has been discovered. The work on these new finds required a new examination of the species of the family Tyrannophontidae. In doing this some up now unknown morphological details were discovered. Tyrannophontes fraiponti VA...

During the last 20 years, a unique flora and fauna has been recovered in the former brickyard quarry at Hagen-Vorhalle in the Ruhr area. Among the approximately 16 000 samples from the excavation by the office for "Paläontologische Bodendenkmalpflege" in Münster there are 157 insects. Together with specimens held by private collectors, the total nu...

From the Namurian B of Hagen - Vorhalle the species Pleurocaris juengeri n. sp. is recorded by two finds. The morphology is described. The two specimens are the oldest representatives of this genus, which herewith is proved in Germany for the first time, too. The lithology of the finding strata is discussed, the mudrock occurences are interpreted a...

The first fossil remains of a protostegid turtle from the upper Cretaceous of northwestern Germany are described and discussed. The material includes a carapace and a plastron which belong to the best preserved material of this species discovered from NW-Germany to date.

Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss., 1989 (Nicht f.d. Austausch).