The library currently comprises approximately 21,000 books, reprints, journals, and maps mainly on Quaternary palaeontology. The library also houses the photographic and press archives, and archives on the history and scientific work of the research station.
The responsibilities of the group comprise photography, graphics and surveying work (field and object documentation) in the field, and the production of scientific graphics and photographs for publications and presentations. The group is also responsible for preparing excavation maps for publication and cataloging the 19 collections.
Library
Our library is a scientific reference library (mainly for the Senckenberg staff and our numerous guest researchers) with the main collection dedicated to Quaternary Palaeontology. In exceptional cases it is possible for external visitors to make copies (max. 20 pages, 0,10 € per page). It is only possible to borrow books out of our stock via Thüringische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena , which you can find in the catalogue of the ThULB Jena as well (352 volumes, inter-library loans also possible).
Morphology, evolution, systematics, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography of Plio- and Pleistocene small mammals of the Palaearctic
Biostratigraphic correlation
Morphometric changes in arvicolid molars
Fossil gnawing marks (origin, interpretation)
Curriculum vitae
1956
born in Weimar
1977-1982
studied biology (specialising in zoology), Humboldt University, Berlin
1982
Diploma in zoology: The rodents from the Pisede fossil burrows
1982-1990
scientific assistant at the Institute of Quaternary Palaeontology in Weimar
1991-1999
PhD in palaeozoology: The Biharian small mammal remains from Untermassfeld, Voigtstedt and Süssenborn and their chronological position within the Biharian micromammalian faunas of Europe
1990
scientific researcher in Quaternary Palaeontology (Institute of Geosciences of Friedrich- Schiller-University, Jena)
seit 1996
teaching (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena)
since 2000
head of the Quaternary small mammal section at the Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology in Weimar
2004
co-organisation of the 18th International Senckenberg Conference “Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations”
HEINRICH, W.-D., MAUL, L. C. (2020): Mortality profiles of Castor and Trogontherium (Mammalia: Rodentia, Castoridae), with notes on the site formation of the Mid-Pleistocene hominin locality Bilzingsleben II (Thuringia, Central Germany). – Fossil Imprint76 (1): 40-58.
HORÁČEK, I., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I. & MAUL, L. C. (Eds.) (2020): Mammalia. A tribute to Gerhard Storch. Part 2. – Fossil Imprint76 (1): i-v+1-210.
LEHMANN, T., STORCH, A., HELFRICHT, A., KROHMANN, K., HORÁČEK, I., RUF, I. & MAUL, L. C. (Eds.) (2020): Gerhard Storch – a legend in mammal research (II). – Fossil Imprint76 (1): iii-v.
MAUL, L. C., RABINOVICH, R., BITON, R. (2020): At the southern fringe: extant and fossil water voles of genus Arvicola (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Arvicolinae) from Israel, with the description of a new species. – Historical Biology | https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1827240.
MAHMOUDI, A., MAUL, L. C., KHOSHYAR, M., DARVISH, J., ALIABADIAN, M., KRYšTUFEK, B. (2020): Evolutionary history of water voles revisited: confronting a new phylogenetic model from molecular data with the fossil record. – Mammalia 84 (2): 171-184 | https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2018-0178.
HORÁČEK, I., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I., MAUL, L. C., Eds. (2019): Mammalia. A tribute to Gerhard Storch. Part 1. – Fossil Imprint75 (3-4): i-xxi+292-509.
HORÁČEK, I., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I., KROHMANN, K., MAUL, L. C. (2019): Gerhard Storch – a legend in mammal research. – Fossil Imprint75 (3-4): v-xxi.
LAZARIDIS, G., TSOUKALA, E., MAUL, L. C. (2019): The earliest Hystrix refossa: a new Early Villafranchian record from Milia (Grevena, Macedonia, Greece). – Hystrix 30 (1): 12-18 | https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00140-2018
MAUL, L. C. (2019): Die Kleinsäugerfauna aus der Forschungsbohrung Ummendorf 1/2012. – Mitteilungen zu Geologie und Bergwesen von Sachsen-Anhalt 20: 99-108.
STRAHL, J., WANSA, S., BAUMGARTEN, H., FRECHEN, M., MAUL, L. C., MENG, S., RAPPSILBER, I., ROLF, C., THOMAS, M. (2019): Forschungsbohrung Ummendorf 1/2012 – Zielstellung und Untersuchungsmethoden. – Mitteilungen zu Geologie und Bergwesen von Sachsen-Anhalt 20: 7-20.
POPOVA, L. V., MAUL, L. C., ZAGORODNIUK, I. V., VEKLYCH, Yu. M., SHYDLOVSKIY, P. S., POGODINA, N. V., BONDAR, K. M., STRUKOVA, T. V. & PARFITT, S. A. (2019): ‘Good fences make good neighbours’: Concepts and records of range dynamics in ground squirrels and geographical barriers in the Pleistocene of the Circum-Black Sea area. – Quaternary International 509: 103-120 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.023.
SMITH, K. T., MAUL, L. C., FLEMMING, F., BARKAI, R. & GOPHER, A. (2016): The microvertebrates of Qesem Cave: A comparison of the two concentrations. – Quaternary International 398: 233-245 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.047.
MAUL, L. C., BRUCH, A. A., SMITH, K. T., SHENBROT, G., BARKAI, R. & GOPHER, A. (2016): Palaeoecological and biostratigraphical implications of the microvertebrates of Qesem Cave in Israel. – Quaternary International 398: 219-232 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.032.
BLASCO, R., ROSELL, J., SMITH, K. T., MAUL, L. C., SANUDO, P., BARKAI, R. & GOPHER, A. (2016): Tortoises as a dietary supplement: A view from the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel. – Quaternary Science Reviews 133: 165-187 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.006.
MAUL, L. C., SMITH, K. T., SHENBROT, G., BRUCH, A. A., WEGMÜLLER, F. & LE TENSORER, J.-M. (2015): Microvertebrates from unit G/layer 17 of the archaeological site of Hummal (El Kowm, Central Syria): Preliminary results. – L’anthropologie 119: 676-686 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2015.10.010.
ULBRICHT, A., MAUL, L. C. & SCHULZ, E. (2015): Can mesowear analysis be applied to small mammals? A pilot-study on leporines and murines. – Mammalian Biology 80 (1): 14-20 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2014.06.004.
MAUL, L. C., MASINI, F., PARFITT, S. A., REKOVETS, L. & SAVORELLI, A. (2014): Evolutionary trends in arvicolids and the endemic murid Mikrotia – New data and a critical overview. – Quaternary Science Reviews 96: 140-158 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.09.017.
MAUL, L. C. (2014): Leporid remains of the Sesselfelsgrotte (Neuessing, Lower Bavaria). – In: FREUND, G. (Hg. u. a.): Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen : Wirbeltierfauna 1. – Sesselfelsgrotte – Forschungsprojekt “Das Paläolithikum und Mesolithikum des Unteren Altmühltals II” VI. – 119-139; Steiner, Stuttgart.
MAUL, L. C., HEINRICH, W.-D. & REKOVETS, L. (2013): Kurze Übersicht zum Kenntnisstand der fossilen Bibergattung Trogontherium (Castoridae, Rodentia). – Säugetierkundliche Informationen 9 (47): 143-152.
HORÁČEK, I., MAUL, L. C., SMITH, K. T., BARKAI, R. & GOPHER, A. (2013): Bat remains (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel, with the first Pleistocene record of fruit bats in the Mediterranean region. – Palaeontologia Electronica 16 (3): 1-19 | http://www.palaeo-electronica.org/content/2013/513-qesem-bats
MAUL, L. C., STEBICH, M., FRENZEL, P., HAMBACH, U., HENKEL, T., KATZSCHMANN, L., KIENAST, F., MENG, S., PENKMAN, K., ROLF, C., THOMAS, M. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2013): Age and palaeoenvironment of the enigmatic Arternian Interglacial – evidence from the Muschelton at Voigtstedt/Hackelsberg (Thuringia, Central Germany). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 68-85 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.05.005.
SMITH, K. T., MAUL, L. C., BARKAI, R. & GOPHER, A. (2013): To catch a chameleon, or actualism vs. natural history in the taphonomy of the microvertebrate fraction at Qesem Cave, Israel. – Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (8): 3326-3339 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.02.022.
MAUL, L. C., SMITH, K. T., BARKAI, R., BARASH, A., KARKANAS, P., SHAHACK-GROSS, R. & GOPHER, A. (2011): ‘Of Men and Mice’ at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel. Small vertebrates, environment and biostratigraphy. – Journal of Human Evolution 60 (4): 464-480 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.03.015.
FEJFAR, O., HEINRICH, W.-D., KORDOS, L. & MAUL, L. C. (2011): Microtoid cricetids and the early history of arvicolids (Mammalia, Rodentia). – Palaeontologia Electronica 14 (3): 1-35 |http://palaeo-electronica.org/2011_3/6_fejfar/index.html.
MAUL, L. C. & PARFITT, S. A. (2010): Micromammals from the 1995 mammoth excavation at West Runton, Norfolk, UK. Morphometric data, biostratigraphy and taxonomic reappraisal. – Quaternary International 228: 91-115 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2009.01.005.
ULRICH, R. G., HECKEL, G., PELZ, H.-J., WIELER, L. H., NORDHOFF, M., DOBLER, G., FREISE, J., MATUSCHKA, F.-R., JACOB, J., SCHMIDT-CHANASIT, J., GERSTENGARBE, F. W., JÄKEL, T., SÜSS, J., EHLERS, B., NITSCHE, A., KALLIES, R., JOHNE, R., GÜNTHER, S., HENNING, K., GRUNOW, R., WENK, M., MAUL, L. C., HUNFELD, K.-P., WÖLFEL, R., SCHARES, G., SCHOLZ, H. C., BROCKMANN, S. O., PFEFFER, M., & ESSBAUER, S. S. (2009): Nagetiere und Nagetierassoziierte Krankheitserreger. Das Netzwerk „Nagetier-übertragene Pathogene“ stellt sich vor. – Bundesgesundheitsblatt – Gesundheitsforschung – Gesundheitsschutz 3: 352-369.
MAUL, L. C. (2007): Erster Nachweis von Hypolagus (Leporidae, Mammalia) in der unterpleistozänen Fundstelle Untermaßfeld (Thüringen, Mitteldeutschland). – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen, N. F. 14: 215-233.
ERFURT, J. & MAUL, L. C. (eds) (2007): 34. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Wirbeltierpaläontologie der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft. Programm und wissenschaftliche Beiträge. – Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, Beiheft 23: I-X + 1-198; Halle.
FEJFAR, O., HEINRICH, W.-D., KORDOS, L. & MAUL, L. C. (2007): Early arvicolids, their potential ancestors and related forms. – Hystrix, N. S. / Supplement: 83.
KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C. & MAZZA, P. P. A. (eds) (2007): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Proceedings of the 18th International Senckenberg Conference (VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar). Volume II. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 259: VI + 1-297; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.
MAUL, L. C. & HEINRICH, W.-D. (2007): Neue Daten zur Kleinsäugerbiostratigraphie und Altersabfolge deutscher Quartärfundstellen. – Neue Ausgrabungen und Funde in Thüringen – Sonderband 2007 / Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 48 / Terra Praehistoria: 81-96; Langenweissbach.
MAUL, L. C. (2007): Feedback-Selektion beim Übergang von hypsodonten zu hypselodonten Molaren der Schermäuse. – In: ERFURT, J. & MAUL. L. C. (eds): 34. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Wirbeltierpaläontologie der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft. Programm und wissenschaftliche Beiträge. – Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, Beiheft 23: 65-70; Halle.
MAUL, L. C., HEINRICH, W.-D., PARFITT, S. A. & PAUNESCU, A.-C. (2007): Comment on the correlation between magnetostratigraphy and the evolution of Microtus (Arvicolidae, Rodentia, Mammalia) during the Early and early Middle Pleistocene. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C. & MAZZA, P. P. A. (eds): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Proceedings of the 18th International Senckenberg Conference (VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar). Volume II. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 259: 243-263; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.
SCHREIBER, D., LÖSCHER, M., MAUL, L. C. & UNKEL, I. (2007): Die Tierwelt der Mauerer Waldzeit. – In: WAGNER, G. A., RIEDER, H. & ZÖLLER, L. (eds): 100 Jahre Homo heidelbergensis von Mauer. Schlüsselfund der Menschheitsgeschichte. – 127-159; Theiss, Stuttgart.
MAUL, L. C. & MARKOVA, A. K. (2007): Similarity and regional differences in Quaternary arvicolid evolution in Central and Eastern Europe. – Quaternary International 160: 81-99 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2006.09.010.
FLADERER, F. A., EINWÖGERER, T., FRANK, C., FUCHS, G., GALIK, A., MAUL, L. C., STEIER, P. & WILD, E. M. (2006): Der neue mittelpaläolithische Fundplatz “Lurgrotte-Vorhöhle” bei Peggau in der Mittelsteiermark. – Quartär 53/54: 61-96.
MASINI, F., GIANNINI, T., ABBAZZI, L., FANFANI, F., DELFINO, M., MAUL, L. C. & TORRE, D . (2005): A latest Biharian small vertebrate fauna from the lacustrine succession of San Lorenzo (Santarcangelo Basin, Basilicata, Italy). – Quaternary International 131: 79-93 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2004.07.008.
MAUL , L. C. (2004): The arvicolids of the old collection of Senèze reconsidered . – In: MAUL, L. C. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (eds): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18 th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar . Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra, Schriften der Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung 2004 (2): 168-169; Berlin.
MAUL, L. C. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (eds) (2004): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18 th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar . Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra, Schriften der Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung 2004 (2): 1-289; Berlin.
PAUNESCU, A. C., MAUL, L. C. & MASINI, F. (2004): Comparison of evolutionary patterns of Arvicola in Germany , France and Italy . – In: MAUL, L. C. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (eds): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18 th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar . Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra, Schriften der Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung 2004 (2): 203-204; Berlin.
KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C., MEYRICK, R. A., STEBICH, M. & GRASSELT, T. (2002): The Quaternary sequence from the late Middle to Upper Pleistocene site of Weimar-Ehringsdorf. – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C . (eds): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings), Field Guide. – 163-178 ; Quaternary Research Association, London.
MAUL, L. C. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 4: Kleinsäugetiere. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (Hrsg.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen, N. F. 9: 187-205.
MAUL , L. C. (2002): The Quaternary small mammal faunas of Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings), Field Guide. – 79-96 ; Quaternary Research Association, London .
MEYRICK, R. A. & MAUL, L. C. (2002): Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eemian deposits of Burgtonna. – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C . (eds): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings), Field Guide. – 145-162; Quaternary Research Association, London .
MAUL, L. (2001): Die Kleinsäugerreste (Insectivora, Lagomorpha, Rodentia) aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 3. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (3): 783-887; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn. Open acces:https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.560
MAUL, L. (2001): Nagespuren von Kleinsäugern an Knochenmaterial aus der unterpleistozänen Komplexfundstelle Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 3. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (3): 905-916; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn. Open acces:https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.560
MAUL, L. (2001): The transition from hypsodonty to hypselodonty in the Mimomys savini – Arvicola lineage. – Lynx, n. s. 32: 113-118.
MAUL, L. C., REKOVETS, L. I., HEINRICH, W.-D., KELLER, T. & STORCH, G. (2000): Arvicola mosbachensis (SCHMIDTGEN 1911) of Mosbach 2: a basic sample for the early evolution of the genus and a reference for further biostratigraphical studies. – Senckenbergiana lethaea 80: 129-147.
LIPPI, P., MASINI, F., MAUL, L. & ABBAZZI, L. (1998): Evolutionary changes of enamel differentiation in Pleistocene Mediterranean and Middle European populations of Microtus (Rodentia, Arvicolidae). – Paludicola 2 (1): 50-61.
MAUL, L. & RZEBIK-KOWALSKA, B. (1998): A Record of Macroneomys brachygnathus FEJFAR, 1966 (Mammalia, Insectivora , Soricidae) in the early Middle Pleistocene (late Biharian) locality of Voigtstedt. – Acta zoologica cracoviensia 41: 79-100.
MAUL, L., MASINI, F., ABBAZZI, L. & TURNER, A. (1998): The use of different morphometric data for absolute age calibration of some South and Middle European arvicolid populations. – Palaentographica Italica 85: 111-151.
MAUL, L., MASINI, F., ABBAZZI, L. & TURNER, A. (1998): Geochronometric application of evolutionary trends in the dentition of fossil arvicolids. – Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen TNO 60: 565-572.
MAUL, L. (1997): Nachweis eines Zungenbeinfragmentes einer Schildkröte (Emydini, Emydidae, Testudinata) aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld. – In: KAHLKE , R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 1. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 40 (1): 89-94 ; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn. Open access:https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.558
ARENHÖVEL, C., LÜTH, E. & MAUL, L. C. (2018): Die Schutzgebiete der Stadt Weimar Teil IX: Der Geschützte Landschaftsbestandteil “Burgholz”. – Thüringer Faunistische Abhandlungen 23: 7-36.
MAUL, L. C. & SMITH, K. T. (2014): Von Mäusen, Echsen und Menschen. – Senckenberg – natur • forschung • museum 144 (7/8): 284-285.
MAUL, L. C. (2009): Quartäre Kleinsäugetiere als Zeitmarker und Umweltindikatoren. – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 166-171.
MAUL, L. C. (2009): Weimarer Fledermäuse. – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 184-185.
MAUL, L. C. (2007): Gleithörnchen. Zeitgenossen von Homo heidelbergensis. – Natur und Museum 137 (11/12): 280-281.
MAUL, L. C. (2003): Das Benagen von Knochen. – Natur und Museum 133 (6): 157-165.
MEYRICK, R. & MAUL, L. C. (2003): Ausgrabungen in Burgtonna seit 300 Jahren. – Natur und Museum 133 (9): 253-261.
Managing and administration of the library stock (approximately 20,000 books, reprints, journals, and maps)
Acquisation of literature on demand of the sections
Administration of Senckenberg e-journals licences (consortia)
Lending and borrowing of library stock (inter-library loans)
Maintaining the research station’s and Senckenberg libraries (Program Research Infrastructure) web-site
Keeping the press archive
Cover for administrative duties
since 2002
Head of library at Senckenberg Researchstation for Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar
2001-2003
Master degree in Library Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (MA (LIS) – Master of Arts Library and Information Science). Master thesis: Die Bibliothek der Gedenkstätte Buchenwald. Entwicklung und Perspektiven einer One-Person Library 1990-2002.
1987-1997
Master studies in Art History, Archaeologcal Studies, Theater, Film and Media Studies, History, German Literature, and Sociology at Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M. (M.A. – Magistra Artium). Master thesis: ‘Unehrbare Weiber’ und moralische Ordnung – Zum Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses im Frankfurt des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit (1450-1560).
FIEDLER, B. (2012): Quartärpaläontologische Forschung in Weimar 1962-2011. Eine Bibliographie. – 1-124; Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung; Frankfurt/M.
