Research projects

Overview by leaders

PD Dr. Michael Hautmann

Differential extinction and survival of species in a diversity hotspot: A case study on Neogene marine invertebrates of Yule Island (Papua New Guinea)

Effect of mass extinctions, biotic recoveries, and macroecological changes on taxonomic distinctness: A case study on bivalves during the Palaeozoic – Mesozoic transition

Prof. Dr. Christian Klug

A new Fossillagerstätte from the Late Devonian of Morocco: faunal composition, taphonomy and palaeoecology

Evolution and Palaeobiology of early cephalopods (Nautiloidea)

Palaeobiology and anatomy of Mesozoic coleoids

Taxonomic, morphological and functional diversity of Placodermi and Chondrichthyes from the Late Devonian of Morocco

The Devonian nekton radiation in a time of biodiversity crises

The Devonian nekton radiation in a time of biodiversity crises

Prof. Dr. Catalina Pimiento Hernandez

SHARK EXTINCTIONS: from the past to the future

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Sánchez

Domestication - an evolutionary developmental perspective

Evolutionary Theory and Human Affairs

Palaeobiology of fossil vertebrates in South America

Prof. Dr. Torsten Scheyer

Bone histology of Mesozoic marine reptiles

Bone microanatomy and microstructure of extinct reptiles (incl. archosauromorphs, lepidosauromorphs and turtles)

Fossils from Aldabra Atoll