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Introduction
Current institution
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March 2013 - present
March 2010 - February 2013
March 2009 - February 2010
Gymnasium
Position
- Professor
Education
January 2001 - June 2002
Institut für Paläontologie und historische Geologie
Field of study
- description of Plateosaurus remains from the Upper Triassic of Bavaria
August 1995 - July 1997
Institut für Paläontologie und historische Geologie
Field of study
- geological mapping; Invertebrate fossils & facies Lower Cretaceous eastern Spain
Publications
Publications (15)
We describe a new species of a giant tortoise of the genus Titanochelon from the locality of Sandelzhausen in south Germany (MN5, Burdigalian/Langhian boundary, Early/Middle Miocene). The material comprises at least two different individuals, one of which is a male individual preserving large parts of the carapace and plastron and several appendicu...
Six specimens accessioned to the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology in Munich, Germany, in 1966 are identified as coming from a gigantic pterodactyloid pterosaur. The previously undescribed material was obtained in 1955 by Jean Otto Haas and compares favourably in size with the type specimen of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtia...
Recent acquisitions to the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology comprise part of the palaeontological collections of the former Heimatmuseum Bad Windsheim and the former Institute of Palaeontology and Geology at the University of Würzburg. Among the specimens are the holotypes of three fishes, Aphelolepis delpi Heller, 1953, Cren...
The re-discovery of nine petrographic slides from the late 19th century at the palaeontological collections of the University of Zurich, showing thin-sectioned ichthyosaur teeth, revealed these slides be the only preserved remains of the historical collection of Upper Jurassic ichthyosaurs from the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Ge...
The continental mollusc fauna of Sandelzhausen (Southern Germany, Early/ Middle Miocene, MN5) is presented and shown to consist of 66 snail and 3 bivalve taxa. Previous ecological interpretations were partly based on poorly preserved material and are shown to be erroneous. Within a series of quantitative samples, ecologically four mollusc communiti...
The type material of Mastodonsaurus is revised and its complicated taxonomic history resolved. The genus was erected by Jaeger in 1828 without a species name, which was added subsequently by Holl (1829) who named the type species Mastodonsaurus jaegeri. The large tooth on which Jaeger based his Mastodonsaurus is chosen herein as lectotype of the...
Fragmentary isolated remains of large (up to 20 m or more) sauropods from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Khadir Formation
of Khadir Island (Kachchh, W India) are described and compared in detail. Three of the bone fragments (a metacarpal, a first
pedal claw and a fibula) can be assigned with confidence to the Camarasauromorpha and represent the old...
New extensive tooth material of late Miocene and early Pliocene microtoid cricetids (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Inner Mongolia (PR of China) is described from their type locality and adjacent area. It belongs toMicrotodon atavus and the more rareAnatolomys teilhardi, which both were known so far only by a few jaw fragments. There are now more than 25...
In this paper the plateosaur remains (about 1000 bones) found 1962 in Ellingen (Bavaria, S-Germany; Upper Triassic) are described. Connected questions of the taphonomy and preservation, age of deposits, the general morphology, taxonomy, and evolution in comparison to other localities and other prosauropods are discussed in detail. Regarding taxonom...
