Paläobotanik

Unser Team

Sektionsleitung

Dr.  Lutz Kunzmann
Sektionsleiter (Kustos)

since 2011
Editor-in-chief Palaeontographica Abteilung B – Palaeobotany

since 2016
Secretary / treasurer International Organisation of Palaeobotany

2008 – 2016
spokesperson Arbeitskreis Paläobotanik/Palynologie der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft e. V.

since 1995
Lecturer Palaeobotany, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany

since 1994
Curator and head of section palaeobotany, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden

1999
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, dissertation thesis: Conifers from the Late Cretaceous and their relics in the European Tertiary.

1994
Diploma Geology/Palaeontology, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany

2025
 
Kunzmann, L., Huang, J., Su, T., Wu, M.-X., Zhou, Z.-K. (2025). A new fossil Magnolia Plum ex L. (Magnoliaceae) from Eocene Profen-Süd flora in Germany and its paleobiogeographic implications – Palaeontographica B [EarlyAccess version]
 
Conceição, D. M.,  Esperança Júnior, M. G. F., Gobo, W. V., Iannuzzi, R., Batistaa, M. E. P., Nascimento Jr., D. R., Silva Filho, W. F., Horodysk, R. S., Bamford, M. K., Kunzmann, L. (2025). Unique conifer assemblage from Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous deposits (NE Brazil) unveils the paleoclimate and paleobiogeography in the interior of equatorial Gondwana. – Cretaceous Research [EarlyAccess version]
 
2024
 
Batista, M.E.P., Saraiva, A.Á.F. de Lima, F.J., Bantim, R.A.M., Pinheiro, A.P., Silva, D.B., Kunzmann, L. (2024). An enigmatic tropical conifer from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana. – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (3): 375–393.
 
Conceição D. M., Gobo, W. V., Batista, M. E. P., Oliveira, N. C., Mastroberti, A. A., Iannuzzi, R., Bamford, M. K., Kunzmann, L. 2024. Expanding the diversity of conifer xyloflora from Early Cretaceous Crato Fossil Lagerstätte, Brazil. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 322: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105061.
 
Wu, M.-X., Kunzmann L, Li S, Teodoridis V, Zhou Z-K., Su T. 2024. Vegetation changes across the Eocene-Oligocene transition: Global signals vs. regional development. – Science China Earth Sciences, 67, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-023-1335-8
 
Wu, M. X., Huang, J., Zhou, Z.K., & Kunzmann, L. 2024. A new fossil genus of Altingiaceae based on unlobed leaves from Eocene subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in Europe. – International Journal of Plant Sciences, 185(6), 523–534.
 
Book:
Iannuzzi, R, Rößler, R., Kunzmann, L. (2024): Brazilian Paleofloras: From Paleozoic to Holocene. – 2 vls, 1362 pp., SpringerNature. https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-22526-1
 
2023
 
Gobo, W. V., Kunzmann, L., Iannuzzi, R., dos Santos, T. B., Conceicao, D. M., Nascimento Jr., D. R., Silva Filho, W. F., Bachelier, J. B., Coiffard, C. (2023). A new remarkable Early Cretaceous nelumbonaceous fossil bridges the gap between herbaceous aquatic and woody protealeans. Scientific Reports 13: 8978. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33356-z
 
Müller C, Toumoulin A, Böttcher H, Roth-Nebelsick A, Wappler T, Kunzmann L. (2023). An integrated leaf trait analysis of two Paleogene leaf floras. – PeerJ 11:e15140 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15140
 
 The Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) Consortium [… Kunzmann, L. ….] (2023): Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2. Science 382, eadi5177(2023). DOI:10.1126/science.adi5177
 
Book chapter:
Martinetto E., …. Kunzmann, L., … et al. (2020). Triumph and Fall of the Wet, Warm, and Never-More-Diverse Temperate Forests (Oligocene-Pliocene). – In: Martinetto E., Tschopp E., Gastaldo R.A. (eds). Nature through Time. Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_2
 
2022
 
Batista, M. E. P., Loiola, M. I. B., Soares, A. A., Mastroberti, A. A., Sá, A. A., Nascimento Jr., D. R., Silva Filho W. F., Kunzmann, L. (2022). New insights in the evolution of mucilage cells in Araucariaceae: Araucaria violetae sp. nov. from the Early Cretaceous Araripe Basin (NE Brazil). – International Journal of Plant Science 183(1): 43–60.
 
Dolezych, M., Mantzouka, D., Kunzmann, L. (2022). Cedroxylon shakhtnaense (Blokhina 2010) Dolezych, Mantzouka et L.Kunzmann comb. nov., a fossil Abies wood from the late early Miocene Mastixioideae flora of Wiesa (east Germany). – IAWA Journal 43(1–2): 136–163.
 
Gobo, W. V., Kunzmann, L., Iannuzzi, R., Bachelier, J. B., Coiffard, C. (2022). First evidence of ranunculids in Early Cretaceous tropics. –  Scientific Reports 12: 5040. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07920-y
 
Kunzmann, L., Li, S.-F., Huang, J., Utescher, T., Su, T., Zhou, Z.-K. (2022). Assessment of Phytogeographic Reference Regions for Cenozoic vegetation: a case study on the Miocene flora of Wiesa (Germany). – Fossil Imprint 78(1): 1–43.
 
Malekhosseini, M., Ensikat, H.-J., McCoy, V. E., Wappler, T., Weigand, M., Kunzmann, L., Rust, J. (2022). Traces of calcium oxalate biomineralization in fossil leaves from late Oligocene maar deposits in Germany. – Scientific Reports 12:15959 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20144-4
 
Sadowski, E.-M., Schmidt, A. R., Kunzmann, L. (2022). The hyperdiverse conifer flora of the Baltic amber forest. – Palaeontographica Abt. B 304 (1–4): 1–148.
 
Toumoulin, A., Tardif, D., Donnadieu, Y., Licht, A., Ladant, J.-B., Kunzmann, L., Dupont-Nivet, G. (2022). Evolution of continental temperature seasonality from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse –  A model-data comparison, – Climate of the Past, 18, 341–362. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-341-2022.
 
Book chapter:
Kunzmann L., Coiffard, C., de Oliveira Westerkamp, A. P. A., Batista, M. E. P., Uhl, D., Solórzano-Kraemer, M. M., Mendes, M., Nascimento Jr., D. R., Iannuzzi, R., Silva Filho, W. F. (2022). Crato Flora: A 115-Million-Year-Old Window into the Cretaceous World of Brazil. – In: Iannuzzi R., Rößler R., Kunzmann L. (eds) Brazilian Paleofloras. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90913-4_27-1

2021

Roth-Nebelsick, A., Grein, M., Traiser, C., Kunzmann, L., Kvacek, J., Wypich, J., Eder. J. (2021). Taxon-specific variability of leaf traits in three long-ranging fossil-taxa of the Paleogene and Neogene: responses to climate? – Palaeontologia Electronica 24.1.04.
https://doi.org/10.26879/1114.

Hutchinson, D. K., Coxall, H. K., Lunt, D. J., Steinthorsdottir, M., DeBoer, A. M., Baatsen, M., von der Heydt, A., Huber, M., Kennedy-Asser, A. T., Kunzmann, L., Ladant, J.-P., Lear, C. H., Moraweck, K., Pearson, P. N., Piga, E., Pound, M. J., Salzmann, U., Scher, H. D., Sijp, W. P., Śliwińska, K. K., Wilson, P. A., Zhang, Z. S. (2021). The Eocene-Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model-data comparisons. – Climate of the Past 17: 269–315. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-269-2021.

2020

Batista, M. E. P., Kunzmann, L., Sa, A. A., Saraiva, A. A. F., Loiola, M. I. B. (2020). A new species of Brachyphyllum from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous) Araripe Basin, Brazil. – Ameghiniana 57 (6): 519–533.

Toumoulin, A., Kunzmann, L., Moraweck; K., Sack, L. (2020). Reconstructing leaf area from fragments: testing three methods using a fossil Paleogene species. – American Journal of Botany, 107 (12): 1786–1797. https://doi.org/10.1111/AJB2.1574

Haug, C. et al. … Kunzmann, L. … (2020). Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil‑based scientific data”: the importance of private collections. – PaLZ 94: 413–429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-020-00522-x

Noll, R., Kunzmann, L. (2020). Diversity in fossil Araucaria Juss.: new species from the Middle Jurassic Jaramillo Petrified Forests in Santa Cruz province, Argentina. – Palaeontographica B 301 (1–3): 3–75. http://doi.org/10.1127/palb/2020/0070

Seyfullah, L. J., Roberts, E. A., Schmidt, A. R., Ragazzi, E., Anderson, K. B., do Nascimento Jr., D. R., da Silva Filho, W. F., Kunzmann, L. (2020). Revealing the diversity of amber source plants from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil. M – BMC Evol. Biol. 20, 107. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01651-2

2019

Löcse, F., Zorn, I., Kunzmann, L., Rößler, R. (2019). Paläobotanische Kostbarkeiten aus den Versteinerten Wäldern von Nová Paka (Tschechien) und Chemnitz (Deutschland) – Originale zu Stenzel (1889, 1906) und Rudolph (1906) in der paläobotanischen Sammlung der Geologischen Bundesanstalt in Wien. – Jb. Geol. B.-A., 159 (1–4): 289–313.

Wang, L., Kunzmann, L., Su, T., Xing, Y.-W., Zhang, S.-T., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-K. (2019). Evolutionary stasis and the intensification of Asian monsoon caused the disappearance of Metasequoia (Cupressaceae) in SW China. – Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 264: 64-74.

Moraweck, K., Grein, M., Konrad, W., Kovar-Eder, J., Kvaček, J., Neinhuis, C., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Traiser, C., Kunzmann, L. (2019). Leaf traits of long-ranging Paleogene species and their relationship with depositional facies, climate and atmospheric CO2 level. Palaeontographica B 298 (4-6): 93-172. https://doi.org/10.1127/palb/2019/0062

Kunzmann, L., Moraweck, K., Müller, C., Schröder, I., Wappler, T., Grein, M., Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2019). A Paleogene leaf flora (Profen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany) and its potentials for palaeoecological and palaeoclimate reconstructions. – Flora 254: 71–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2018.11.005

2018

Kunzmann, L., Uhl, D., Krüger, P. S. (2018). Whitish leaves in Eocene lignites in central Germany – a brief survey from the viewpoint of palaeobotany. – Freib.-Forsch.-H. C 554: 213-223.

Batista, M. E. P., Kunzmann, L., Bezerra, F., Andrade, de J. A. F. G., Sá, A. A., Loiola, M. I. B. (2018). A new cheirolepidiaceous conifer Pseudofrenelopsis salesii sp. nov. from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil (Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin): Paleoecological and taphonomic significance. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 258: 154-162

Adroit, B., Girard, V., Kunzmann, L., Terral, J.-F., Wappler, T. (2018). Plant-insect interactions patterns in three European paleoforests of the late-Neogene—early-Quaternary. – PeerJ 6:e5075; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5075

Traiser, C., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Grein, M., Kovar-Eder, J., Kunzmann, L., Moraweck, K., Lange, J., Kvaček, J., Neinhuis, C., Folie, A., De Franceschi, D., Kroh, A., Prestianni, C., Poschmann, M., Wuttke, M. (2018). MORPHYLL: A database of fossil leaves and their morphological traits. – Palaeontologia Electronica 21.1.1T: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.26879/773

Müller, C., Wappler, T., Kunzmann, L. (2018). Insect herbivory patterns in the late Eocene coastal lowland riparian associations from central Germany. – Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 491: 170-184.

Ding, W.-N., Kunzmann, L., Su, T., Huang, J., Zhou, Z.-K. (2018). A new fossil species of Cryptomeria (Cupressaceae) from the Oligocene of the Lühe Basin, Yunnan, East Asia: implications for paleobiogeography and paleoecology. – Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 248: 41-51.

Linnemann, U., Su, T., Kunzmann, L., Spicer, R. A., Ding, W.-N., Spicer, T. E. V., Zieger, J., Hofmann, M., Moraweck, K., Gärtner, A., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Zhang, S.-T., Li, S.-F., Tang, H., Huang, J., Mulch, A., Mosbrugger, V., Zhou, Z.-K. (2018). New U-Pb dates show a Palaeogene origin for the modern Asian biodiversity hot spots. – Geology, 46 (1): 3-6.

2017

Sadowski, E.-M., Schmidt, A. R., Seyfullah1, L. J., Kunzmann, L. (2017). Conifers of the ‘Baltic amber forest’ and their palaeoecological significance. – Stapfia 106: 1-73.

Kunzmann, L., Müller, C., Moraweck, K., Bräutigam, D., Wappler, T., Nel, A. (2017). First record of insects in lignite-bearing formations (upper Eocene) of the central German Leipzig Embayment. – PalZ 91 (3): 315-326.

Roth-Nebelsick, A., Grein, M., Traiser, C., Moraweck, K., Kunzmann, L., Kovar-Eder, J., Kvaček, J., Stiller, S., Neinhuis, C. (2017). Functional leaf traits and leaf economics in the Paleogene — A case study for Central Europe. – Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimat., Palaeoecol. 472: 1-14.

Book chapters

Kunzmann, L., Coiffard, C., Westerkamp, A. P. A. de O., Batista, M. E. P., Uhl, D., Solórzano-Kraemer, M., Mendes, M., Nascimento Jr., D. R., Iannuzzi, R., Silva Filho, W. F. (2021). The Crato Flora: A 115 Million Years old window into the Cretaceous world of Brazil. – In: Iannuzzi R., Rößler R., Kunzmann L. (eds). Brazilian Paleofloras. Springer, Cham.

Martinetto E., …. Kunzmann, L., … et al. (2020). Triumph and Fall of the Wet, Warm, and Never-More-Diverse Temperate Forests (Oligocene-Pliocene). – In: Martinetto E., Tschopp E., Gastaldo R.A. (eds). Nature through Time. Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_2

Uhl, D., Kunzmann, L., et al. (2018). FRANKFURT/DRESDEN/GÖRLITZ: Palaeontological collections of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. – In: Beck L., Joger U. (eds). Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Natural History Collections. Springer, pp. 209-240.

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen

Dr. habil. Martina Dolezych
Ehrenamtliche wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Christian Müller
MSc Geowiss.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Doktorand (2019–2023)
Dr. Mengxiao Wu
DAAD-Stipendiatin (Postdoc 2022–2024)

Technische Mitarbeiter*innen