Fossil of the year 2025
Based on numerous specimens from the SNSD paleozoological collection from the Lower Turonian of the Brießnitz Formation in the Dresden area, Wondrejz et al. (2023) found a clear dimorphism in the species Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) reveliereanus (Courtiller, 1860). This most likely reflects a sexual differentiation into large females (macroconchs, M) and smaller males (microconchs, m).
Wondrejz, C., Nagm, E. & Wilmsen, M. (2023): Dimorphism in Late Cretaceous ammonites – evidence from early Turonian ammonite faunas of the Brießnitz Formation in Saxony, Germany. – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 68(4): 639–657; Warszawa. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01081.2023
Revisions
The first and the second part of the revision of the Cretaceous fauna of Saxony already have been published. Part 3 will follow …
NIEBUHR B. & WILMSEN M. (2014, Eds.): Kreide-Fossilien in Sachsen, Teil 1. – Geologica Saxonica 60(1): 1–254; Dresden.
NIEBUHR B. & WILMSEN M. (2016, Eds.): Kreide-Fossilien in Sachsen, Teil 2. – Geologica Saxonica 62: 1–245; Dresden.
All articles are available in open access here.
New publications 2024
Löser, H. & Wilmsen, M. (2024a): Lower Cenomanian (Cretaceous) corals from Cóbreces (Cantabria, northern Spain). Part 3: families Microsolenidae, Negoporitidae, and Synastreidae. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 311: 141–164; Stuttgart.
Löser, H. & Wilmsen, M. (2024b): Lower Cenomanian (Cretaceous) corals from Cóbreces (Cantabria, northern Spain). Part 4: superfamilies Dendrogyroidea and Eugyroidea. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 313: 67–82; Stuttgart.
Metzner, N., Wilmsen, M. & Böning, P. (2024): Greensand formation, siliceous earth deposition and coastal metal drawdown in the Danubian Cretaceous Basin (Bavaria, Germany). – Marine and Petroleum Geology, 170: 107067 (20pp.); Amsterdam.
Niebuhr, B., Pürner, T., Götz, A.E., Holzförster, F. & Wilmsen, M. (2024): The continental Hessenreuth Formation (Middle Turonian–Middle Coniacian, Danubian Cretaceous Group, Bavaria, Germany): syntectonic deposition during Late Cretaceous inversion. – Zeitschrift der deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 175: 627–657; Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1127/zdgg/2024/0432
Salehi, M.A., Wilmsen, M., Sheibani, V.Y., Zamanian, E. & Keyvanpoor, K. (2024): Stratigraphy, depositional environments and provenance of the Shemshak Group (Upper Triassic–lower Middle Jurassic) on the northern Tabas Block; evidence for the emergent Cimmerian ridge in central Iran. – Marine and Petroleum Geology, 167: 106980 (24pp.); Amsterdam.
Seibertz, E., Niebuhr, B. & Wilmsen, M. (2024): Nachrufe: Christian Spaeth (1936 – 2023). – Gmit – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 96 (Juni 2024): 124.
Wilmsen, M. & Niebuhr, B. (2024): The Cretaceous of Saxoniany – a fresh look at a classical geoscientific key area. – In: Linnemann, U., Meinhold, G. & Röhling, H.-G. (eds), GeoSaxonia 2024 – GEOSCIENCES without borders. Exkursionsführer und Veröffentlichungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 271: 69–91; Berlin.
Wilmsen, M., Bansal, U., Metzner, N. & Böning, P. (2024): Geochemical and depositional environment of an Upper Cretaceous greensand giant (Münsterland Cretaceous Basin, Germany). – Chemical Geology, 661: 122168 (19pp.); Amsterdam.
