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Quaternary Palaeontology | Weimar

Team

Martina Stebich Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Dr Martina Stebich
Acting head of Quaternary Palaeontology division and head of Quaternary microfloras section

Research interests

  • Vegetation dynamics and climate variability of the Quaternary
  • High resolution palynology of annually laminated lake sediments
  • Flowering intensity and pollen precipitation of recent trees and shrubs

Quaternary palaeontology | Quaternary microfloras

Curriculum vitae | ORCiD 0000-0001-9055-0492

1970
born in Großenhain

1990-1995
studied biology at University of Leipzig, Germany (major subjects: systematic-taxonomic botany, plant physiology, ecology, geology)

1995
Diploma degree (Dipl.-biol.): Holocene vegetation history of the raised bog “Georgenfelder Hochmoor” (Erzgebirge mountain range, Germany)

1995-2000
PhD student / scientific associate at the Institute of Palaeontology in Bonn, Germany, as part of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Priority Programme “Changes in the Geo-Biosphere”

1999
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at University of Bonn, Germany: Weichselian Late Glacial Vegetation history and palaeoclimatology of the Meerfelder Maar (Eifel region) as inferred from palaeobotanical studies of annually laminated lake sediments

since 2000
head of the Quaternary microflora section of Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology in Weimar.

since May 2022
acting head of  Quaternary Palaeontology division

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Scientific publications

UTESCHER, T., PRASAD, S., RIEDEL, N. & STEBICH, M. (2023): Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of Central India: A case study on the Lonar Crater Lake pollen record. – The Holocene 33 (5): 491-504 | https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231151801.

PRASAD, S., MISHRA, P. K., PRIYA, P., YOUSUF, A. R., ANDERSEN, N., ANOOP, A., JEHANGIR, A., YASEEN, T., GAYE, B., STEBICH, M. (2022): Impact of precipitation and temperature changes on limnology and sediment characteristics in NW Himalaya. – Applied Geochemistry 137: 105200 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105200.

RIEDEL, N., FULLER, D. Q., MARWAN, N., PORESTSCHKIN, C., BASAVAIAH, N., MENZEL, P., RATNAM, J., PRASAD, S., SACHSE, D., SANARAN, M., SARKAR, S. & STEBICH, M. (2021): Monsoon forced evolution of savanna and the spread of agro-pastoralism in peninsular India. – Scientific Reports 11: 9032.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88550-8

UTESCHER, T., STEBICH, M. & PRASAD, S. (2021): Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of India. – In: NECLIME Online Conference 2021, April 19-22. Conference Volume. – 42-43.

STEBICH, M., HÖFER, D., MINGRAM, J., NOWACZYK, N., ROHRMÜLLER, J., MRLINA, J. & KÄMPF, H. (2020): A contribution towards the palynostratigraphical classification of the Middle Pleistocene in Central Europe: The pollen record of the Neualbenreuth Maar, northeastern Bavaria (Germany). – Quaternary Science Reviews 250: 106681 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106681.

PRASAD, S., MARWAN, N., EROGLU, D., GOSWAMI, B., PRAVEEN, K. M., GAYE, B., ANOOP, A., BASAVAIAH, N., STEBICH, M. & JEHANGIR, A. (2020): Holocene climate forcings and lacustrine regime shifts in the Indian Summer Monsoon realm. – Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 45 (15): 3842-3853 | https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5004.

SCHRÖTER, N., LAUTERBACH, S., STEBICH, M., KALANKE, J., MINGRAM, J., YILDIZ, C., SCHOUTEN, S. & GLEIXNER, G. (2020): Biomolecular Evidence of Early Human Occupation of a High-Altitude Site in Western Central Asia During the Holocene. – Frontiers in Earth Science 8: 20.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00020

ADAM, M., ROESCH, C., STEBICH, M., WEITZEL, N. & REHFELD, K. (2019): Quantifying the similarity of globally distributed pollen records with paleo-climate networks. – Earth and Space Science Open Archive: https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10501152.1 | https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10501152.1.

HÖFER, D., STEBICH, M. & KATZSCHMANN, L. (2019): Palynologische Untersuchungen zur Biostratigraphie und Paläoumwelt des Mittelpleistozäns in Thüringen. – In: 81. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Norddeutscher Geologen, Sangerhausen, 11.-14. Juni 2019, Tagungsband und Exkursionsführer. – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen von Thüringen, Beiheft 12: 33-35.

HERZSCHUH, U., CAO, X., LAEPPLE, T., DALLMEYER, A., TELFORD, R. J., NI, J., CHEN, F., KONG, Zh., LIU, G., LIU, K.-B., LIU, X., STEBICH, M., TANG, L., TIAN, F., WANG, Y., WISCHNEWSKI, J., XU, Q., YAN, Sh., YANG, Zh., YU, G., ZHANG, Y., ZHAO, Y. & ZHENG, Zh. (2019): Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China. – Nature Communications 10: 2376.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09866-8

MIGRAM, J., STEBICH, M., SCHETTLER, G., HU, Y., RIOUAL, P., NOWACZYK, N., DULSKI, P., YOU, H., OPITZ, S., LIU, Q. & LIU, J. (2018): Millennial-scale East Asian monsoon variability of the last glacial deduced from annually laminated sediments from Lake Sihailongwan, N.E. China. – Quaternary Science Reviews 201: 57-76 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.023

ROHRMÜLLER, J., KÄMPF, H., GEIß, E., GROßMANN, J., GRUN, I., MINGRAM, J., MRLINA, J., PLESSEN, B., STEBICH, M., VERESS, C., WENDT, A. & NOWACZYK, N. (2018): Reconnaissance study of an inferred Quaternary maar structure in the western part of the Bohemian Massif near Neualbenreuth, NE-Bavaria (Germany). – International Journal of Earth Sciences 107 (4): 1381-1405 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-017-1543-0

MISHRA, P. K., PRASAD, S., MARWAN, N., ANOOP, A., KRISHNAN, R., GAYE, B., BASAVAIAH, N., STEBICH, M., MENZEL, P. & RIEDEL, N. (2018): Contrasting pattern of hydrological changes during the past two millennia from central and northern India: Regional climate difference or anthropogenic impact? – Global and Planetary Change 161: 97-107 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.12.005

EROGLU, D., MARWAN, N., STEBICH, M. & KURTHS, J. (2018): Multiplex recurrence networks. – Physical Review E 97: 012312 | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.012312

UHL, D., KUNZMANN, L., HERTLER, C., KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., KÖNIGSHOF, P., KULLMER, O., SCHAAL, S.F.K., SMITH, K.T., SOLÓRZANO KRAEMER, M.M., STEBICH, M., TIETZ, O., WILMSEN, M. (2018): Palaeontological collections of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. – In: BECK, L. A., JOGER, U. (Eds.): Paleontological collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland – The history of life of fossil organisms at museums and universities. – 209-240; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77401-5_21

CAO X., TIAN, F., TELFORD, R. J., NI, J., XU, Q., CHEN, F. ,LIU, X., STEBICH, M., ZHAO, Y. & HERZSCHUH, U. (2017): Impacts of the spatial extent of pollen-climate calibration-set on the absolute values, range and trends of reconstructed Holocene precipitation. – Quaternary Science Reviews 178: 37-53 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.030

SCHWARZ, A., TURNER, F., LAUTERBACH, S., PLESSEN, B., KRAHN, K. J., GLODNIOK, S., MISCHKE, S., STEBICH, M., WITT, R., MINGRAM, J. & SCHWALB, A. (2017): Mid- to late Holocene climate-driven regime shifts inferred from diatom, ostracod and stable isotope records from Lake Son Kol (Central Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan). – Quaternary Science Reviews 177: 340-356 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.009

HU, Y.-Q., MINGRAM, J., STEBICH, M. & LI, J.-F. (2016): A key for the identification of conifer stomata from N.E. China based on fluorescence microscopy. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 233: 12-21 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.06.005

STEBICH, M., REHFELD, K., SCHLÜTZ, F., TARASOV, P. E., LIU, J. & MINGRAM, J. (2015): Corrigendum to “Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics of NE China based on the pollen record from Sihailongwan Maar Lake” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 124 (2015) 275e289]. – Quaternary Science Reviews 126: 278 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.005

STEBICH, M., REHFELD, K., SCHLÜTZ, F., TARASOV, P. E., LIU, J. & MINGRAM, J. (2015): Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics of NE China based on the pollen record from Sihailongwan Maar Lake. – Quaternary Science Reviews 124: 275-289 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.021

SARKAR, S., PRASAD, S., WILKES, H., RIEDEL, N., STEBICH, M., BASAVAIAH, N.& SACHSE, D. (2015): Monsoon source shifts during the drying mid-Holocene: Biomarker isotope based evidence from the core ‘monsoon zone’ (CMZ) of India. – Quaternary Science Reviews 123: 144-157 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.020

RIEDEL, N., STEBICH, M., ANOOP, A., BASAVAIAH, N., MENZEL, P., PRASAD, S., SACHSE, D., SARKAR, S. & WIESNER, M. (2015): Modern pollen vegetation relationships in a dry deciduous monsoon forest: A case study from Lonar Crater Lake, central India. – Quaternary International 371: 268-279 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.046

THEUERKAUF, M., BOS, J. A. A., JAHNS, S., JANKE, W., KUPARINEN, A., STEBICH, M. & JOOSTEN, H. (2014): Corylusexpansion and persistent openness in the early Holocene vegetation of northern central Europe. – Quaternary Science Reviews 90: 183-198 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.03.002

LAUTERBACH, S., WITT, R., PLESSEN, B., DULSKI, P., PRASAD, S., MINGRAM, J., GLEIXNER, G., HETTLER-RIEDEL, S., STEBICH, M., SCHNETGER, B., SCHWALB, A. & SCHWARZ, A. (2014): Climatic imprint of the mid-latitude Westerlies in the Central Tian Shan of Kyrgyzstan and teleconnections to North Atlantic climate variability during the last 6000 years. – The Holocene 24 (8): 970-984 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534741

PRASAD, S., ANOOP, A., RIEDEL, N., SARKAR, S., MENZEL, P., BASAVAIAH, N., KRISHNAN, R., FULLER, D., PLESSEN, B., GAYE, B., RÖHL, U., WILKES, H., SACHSE, D., SAWANT, R., WIESNER, M. G. & STEBICH, M. (2014): Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo-Pacific warm pool: A Holocene record from Lonar Lake, central India. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters 391: 171-182 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.043

MENZEL, PH., GAYE, B., MISHRA, P. K., ANOOP, A., BASAVAIAH, N., MARWAN, N., PLESSEN, B., PRASAD, S., RIEDEL, N., STEBICH, M. & WIESNER, M. G. (2014): Linking Holocene drying trends from Lonar Lake in monsoonal central India to North Atlantic cooling events. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 410: 164-178 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.044

SARKAR, S., WILKES, H., PRASAD, S., BRAUER, A., RIEDEL, N., STEBICH, M., BASAVAIAH, N. & SACHSE, D. (2014): Spatial heterogeneity in lipid biomarker distributions in the catchment and sediments of a crater lake in central India. – Organic Geochemistry 66: 125-136 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.11.009

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

MENZEL PH., GAYE, B., WIESNER, M. G., PRASAD, S., STEBICH, M., DAS, B. K., ANOOP, A., RIEDEL, N. & BASAVAIAH, N. (2013): Influence of bottom water anoxia on nitrogen isotopic ratios and amino acid contributions of recent sediments from small eutrophic Lonar Lake, central India. – Limnology and  Oceanography  58 (3): 1061-1074 |  https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2013.58.3.1061

STEBICH, M., MINGRAM, J., MOSCHEN, R., THIELE, A. & SCHRÖDER, C. (2011): Comments on “Anti-phase oscillation of Asian monsoons during the Younger Dryas period: Evidence from peat cellulose ?13C of Hani, Northeast China” by B. Hong, Y.T. Hong, Q.H. Lin, Yasuyuki Shibata, Masao Uchida, Y.X. Zhu, X.T. Leng, Y. Wang and C.C. Cai [Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 297 (2010) 214-222]. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 310 (3/4): 464-470 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.06.004

KLEINEN, T., TARASOV, P., BROVKIN, V., ANDREEV, A. & STEBICH, M. (2011): Comparison of modeled and reconstructed changes in forest cover through the past 8000 years: Eurasian perspective. – The Holocene 21 (5): 723-734 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683610386980

MRLINA, J., KÄMPF, H., KRONER, C., MINGRAM, J., STEBICH, M., BRAUER, A., GEISSLER, W. H., KALLMEYER, J., MATTHES, H. & SEIDL, M. (2009): First Quaternary maar structure of the Bohemian Massif, Central Europe – findings of combined geophysical and geological surveys. – Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 182 (1/2): 97-112 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.01.027

STEBICH, M., MINGRAM, J., HAN, J. & LIU, J. (2009): Late Pleistocene spread of (cool-)temperate forests in Northeast China and climate changes synchronous with the North Atlantic region. – Global and Planetary Change 65 (1/2): 56-70 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.10.010

PARPLIES, J., LÜCKE, A., VOS, H., MINGRAM, J., STEBICH, M., RADTKE, U., HAN, J. & SCHLESER, G. H. (2008): Late glacial environment and climate development in northeastern China derived from geochemical and isotopic investigations of the varved sediment record from Lake Sihailongwan (Jilin Province). – Journal of Paleolimnology 40 (1): 471-487 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-007-9176-0

STEBICH, M., ARLT, J. & MINGRAM, J. (2007): Late Quaternary vegetation history of Northeast China – Recent progress in the palynological investigations of Sihailongwan maar lake. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 259: 181-190; Stuttgart.

SCHETTLER, G., SCHWAB, M. J. & STEBICH, M. (2007): A 700-year record of climate change based on geochemical and palynological data from varved sediments (Lac Pavin, France). – Chemical Geology 240: 11-35 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.01.003

SCHETTLER G., LIU, Q., MINGRAM, J., STEBICH M. & DULSKI, P. (2006): East-Asian monsoon variability between 15 000 and 2 000 cal. yr BP recorded in varved sediments of Lake Sihailongwan (northeastern China, Long Gang volcanic field). – The Holocene 16 (8): 143-157 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683606069388

STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C., KULBE, T. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2005): Vegetation history, human impact and climate change during the last 700 years recorded in annually laminated Sediments of Lac Pavin, France. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 133 (1/2): 115-133 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2004.09.004

STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C. & MINGRAM, J. (2004): Late Quaternary Vegetation history of north-eastem China – preliminary results of palaeobotanical studies from annually laminated maar lake sediments. – In: MAUL, L. C., & KAHLKE, R.-D. (Eds) (2004): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar. Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 239-241; Berlin.

STEBICH, M. & SCHNEIDER, H. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 1: Mikro- und Makrofloren. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (Hrsg.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen, N. F. 9: 119-144.

ACKSEL, D., SCHWAB, M.J., STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2002): Erstes vollständiges See-Sedimentprofil aus dem Lac Pavin – Chronologische und paläoklimatische Informationen. – Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 21: 59.

BRÜCHMANN, C., KULBE, T., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2002): Sedimentologische und mikrostratigraphische Untersuchungen der Laminae des Maarsees Lac Pavin, Auvergne/Frankreich. – Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 21: 87.

KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C., MEYRICK, R. A., STEBICH, M. & GRASSELT, T. (2002): The Quaternary 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 and surroundings). Field Guide. – 163-178; Quaternary Research Association, London.

STEBICH, M. (2002): Armleuchteralgen – filigrane Gesteinsbildner in Karstgewässern. – Natur und Museum 132 (6): 220-221.

STEBICH, M. & SCHNEIDER, H. (2002): The Quaternary micro- and macro floras of Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (Eds): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings), Field Guide. – 9-29; Quaternary Research Association, London.

LITT, T., BRAUER, A., GOSLAR, T., MERKT, J., BALAGA, K., MÜLLER, H., RALSKA-JASIEWICZOWA, M., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2001): Correlation and synchronisation of Lateglacial continental sequences in northern central Europe based on annually-laminated lacustrine Sediments. – Quaternary Science Reviews 20 (11): 1233-1240 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(00)00149-9

BRAUER, A., ENDRES, C., GÜNTER, C., LITT, T., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (1999): High resolution Sediment and Vegetation responses to Younger Dryas climate change in varved lake Sediments from Meerfelder Maar, Germany. – Quaternary Science Reviews 18 (3): 321-329 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00084-5

LITT, T., BRAUER, A., GOSLAR, T., MERKT, J., BALAGA, K., MÜLLER, H., RALSKA-JASIEWICZOWA, M., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (1999): Correlation and Synchronisation of Lateglacial continental sequences in northern central Europe based on varved limnic Sediments. – Terra Nostra 1999 (10): 58-63.

LITT, T. & STEBICH, M. (1999): Bio- and chronostratigraphy of the Lateglacial in the Eifel region, Germany. – Quaternary International 61: 5-16 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S1040-6182(99)00013-0

STEBICH, M. (1999): Palynologische Untersuchungen zur Vegetationsgeschichte des Weichsel-Spätglazial und Frühholozän an jährlich geschichteten Sedimenten des Meerfelder Maares (Eifel). – Dissertationes Botanicae 320: 1-127.

LITT, T., STEBICH, M. & BRAUER, A. (1998): Bio- and chronostratigraphy of the Lateglacial in the Eitel region based on varved Sediments. – Terra Nostra 1998 (6): 82-88; Berlin.

LITT, T., FRÜCHTL, M., KUBITZ, B. & STEBICH, M. (1997): Jungquartäre Floren in den Eifelmaaren. – In: Exkursionsführer 67. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft. – Terra Nostra 1997 (7): 54-62.

LITT, T., FRÜCHTL, M., KUBITZ, B. & STEBICH, M. (1997): Palaeobotanical investigations. – Terra Nostra 1997 (8): 25-29.

STEBICH, M. & LITT, T. (1997): Das Georgenfelder Hochmoor – ein Archiv für Vegetations-, Siedlungs- und Bergbaugeschichte. – Leipziger Geowissenschaften 5: 209-216.

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Popular scientific contributions

KIENAST, F., KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., STEBICH, M. & WILDE, V. (2012): Weimarer quartärbotanische Sammlungen in neuem Domizil. – Natur • Forschung • Museum – Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 142 (9/10): 324-327.

KAHLKE, R.-D., KIENAST, F., MAUL, L. C. & STEBICH, M. (2009): Neuaufstellung der quartärpaläontologischen Sammlungen. – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 196-201.

STEBICH, M. (2002): Armleuchteralgen – filigrane Gesteinsbildner in Karstgewässern. – Natur und Museum 132 (6): 220-221.

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Sabine Schneider - Ausschnitt
Sabine Schneider
Assistent to the division head / Administration

Responsibilities

  • Technical administration of the Research Station
  • Secretary’s office

Further team members (in alphabetical order)

Jessica Arnold Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Jessica Arnold
MSc
(parental leave until 6/2024)

Responsibilities

  • Preparation and conservation of Quaternary fossil material
  • Technical management of the collections
  • Monitoring of the state of preservation of historical collections

Quaternary palaeontology division | working group documentation and information

Susann Döring Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Susann Doering
Photographer

Responsibilities

  • Scientific photography of original fossils in the photographic laboratory, and in situ photographs in the field, both to publication quality
  • Documentation and surveying work in the field
  • Management and enlargement of the photograph archive
  • Participation in excavations of the Research Station

Quaternary palaeontology division | working group documentation and information

Bärbel Fiedler Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Baerbel Fiedler
M.A., MA (LIS)
Scientific librarian and head of library of Quaternary palaeontology division

Responsibilities

  • Managing and administration of the library stock (approximately 21,000 books, reprints, journals, and maps)
  • Acquisation of literature on demand of the sections of the research station of Quaternary palaeontology
  • 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

Quaternary palaeontology division | working group documentation and information

ORCiD 0000-0002-9064-8278

since 2002
Head of the library of the Senckenberg researchstation of Quaternary palaeontology Weimar/Quaternary palaeontolgy division

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, Archaeological 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).

Born 1968 in Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

FIEDLER, B. (2012): Quartärpaläontologische Forschung in Weimar 1962-2011. Eine Bibliographie. – 1-124; Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung; Frankfurt/M.

Evelin Haase Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Evelin Haase
Graphic designer

Responsibilities

  • Production of publication-quality drawings of palaeontological objects and diagrams
  • Participation in excavation, graphic documentation and surveying work in the field
  • Production of excavation and field maps with CAD software
  • Cataloguing and administration of the collection database
  • Image processing and graphic design for publications

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Dana Höfer Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Dr Dana Hoefer
Research associate of Quaternary microfloras section

Research interests

  • Palynological investigations of Quaternary sediments
  • Palaeoecological landscape reconstruction of Pleistocene climatic phases

Quaternary palaeontology | Quaternary microfloras

Curriculum vitae

since 2014
scientific assistant at the Quaternary Microflora Section of Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology in Weimar

2006-2014
scientific assistant / PhD student at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; PhD topic: Holocene vegetation history of southern Portugal (Algarve) – palynological investigantions at selected estauries

2005
scientific assistant in special field palynology at the Thuringian department of preservation of sites of historic interest and archaeology Weimar

2004
scientific assistant at the institute of geography of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

2003
Diploma thesis: Palaeobotanical investigations at the subrosion depression „Breitunger Seen“ – a palynological view from Migration period until present

1997-2003
studies of geography (diploma) at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena with main focus on physical geography, geoinformatics and subsidiary subjects botany and ecology

1977
born in Plauen

SHEN, Y., SWEENEY, L., LIU, M., LOPEZ SAEZ, J. A., PÉREZ-DÍAZ, S., LUELMO-LAUTENSCHLAEGER, R., GIL-ROMERA, G., HOEFER, D., JIMÉNEZ-MORENO, G., SCHNEIDER, H., PRENTICE, I. C., & HARRISON, S. P. (2022): Reconstructing burnt area during the Holocene: an Iberian case study. – Climate of the Past 18: 1189-1201.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1189-2022

HARRISON, S. P., VILLEGAS-DIAZ, R., CRUZ-SILVA, E., GALLAGHER, D., KESNER, D., LINCOLN, P., HEN, Y., SWEENEY, L., COLOMBAROLI, D., ALI, A., BARHOUMI, C., BERGERON, Y., BLYAKHARCHUK, T., BOBEK, P., BRADSHAW, R., CLEAR, J. L., CZERWIŃSKI, S., DANIAU, A.-L., DODSON, J., EDWARDS, K. J., EDWARDS, M. E., FEURDEAN, A., FOSTER, D., GAJEWSKI, K., GAŁKA, M., GARNEAU, M., GIESECKE, T., GIL ROMERA, G., GIARDIN, M. P., HOEFER, D., HUANG, K., INOUE, J., JAMRICHOVÁ, E., JASIUNIS, N., JIANG, W., JIMÉNEZ-MORENO, G., KARPIŃSKA-KOŁACZEK, M., KOŁACZEK, P., KUOSMANEN, N., LAMENTOWICZ, M., LAVOIE, M., LI, F., LI, J., LISITSYNA, O., LÓPEZ-SÁEZ, J. A., LUELMO-LAUTENSCHLAEGER, R., MAGNAN, G., MAGYARI, E. K., MAKSIMS, A., MARCISZ, K., MARINOVA, E., MARLON, J., MENSING, S., MIROSLAW-GRABOWSKA, J., OSWALD, W., PÉREZ-DÍAZ, S., PÉREZ-OBIOL, R., PIILO, S., POSKA, A., QIN, X., REMY, C. C., RICHARD, P., SALONEN, S., SASAKI, N., SCHNEIDER, H., SHOTYK, W., STANCIKAITE, M., ŠTEINBERGA, D., STIVRINS, N., TAKAHARA, H., TAN, Z., TRASUNE, L., UMBANHOWAR, C. E., VÄLIRANTA, M., VASSILIJEV, J., XIAO, X., XU, Q., XU, X., ZAWISZA, E., ZHAO, Y. & ZHOU, Z. (2022): The Reading Palaeofire database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records. – Earth System Science Data 14 (3): 1109-1124.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1109-2022

SHEN, Y., SWEENEY, L., LIU, M., LOPEZ SAEZ, J. A., PÉREZ-DÍAZ, S., LUELMO-LAUTENSCHLAEGER, R., GIL-ROMERA, G., HOEFER, D., JIMÉNEZ-MORENO, G., SCHNEIDER, H., PRENTICE, I. C., & HARRISON, S. P. (2021): Reconstructing burnt area during the Holocene: an Iberian case study. – Climate of the Past Discussions: 23 S.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2021-36

STEBICH, M., HÖFER, D., MINGRAM, J., NOWACZYK, N., ROHRMÜLLER, J., MRLINA, J. & KÄMPF, H. (2020): A contribution towards the palynostratigraphical classification of the Middle Pleistocene in Central Europe: The pollen record of the Neualbenreuth Maar, northeastern Bavaria (Germany). – Quaternary Science Reviews 250: 106681 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106681.

CONNOR, S. E., VANNIERE, B., COLOMBAROLI, D., ANDERSON, R. S., CARRION, J.S., EJARQUE, A., ROMERA, G., GONZALEZ-SAMPERIZ, P., HOEFER, D., MORALES-MOLINO, C., REVELLES, J., SCHNEIDES, H., VAN DER KNAAP, W. O., VAN LEEUWEN, J. F. N. & WOODBRIDGE, J. (2019): Humans take control of fire-driven diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia’s vegetation during the mid-late Holocene. – The Holocene 29 (5): 886-901 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619826652.

HÖFER, D., STEBICH, M. & KATZSCHMANN, L. (2019): Palynologische Untersuchungen zur Biostratigraphie und Paläoumwelt des Mittelpleistozäns in Thüringen. – In: 81. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Norddeutscher Geologen, Sangerhausen, 11.-14. Juni 2019, Tagungsband und Exkursionsführer. – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen von Thüringen, Beiheft 12: 33-35.

SCHNEIDER, H., HÖFER, D., TROG. C. & MÄUSBACHER, R. (2016): Holocene landscape development along the Portuguese Algarve coast – A high resolution palynological approach. – Quaternary International 407: 47-63 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.039

HÖFER, D. (2014): Die holozäne Vegetationsgeschichte Südportugals (Algarve) – palynologische Untersuchungen an ausgewählten Ästuaren. – Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena.

TROG, C., HÖFER, D., FRENZEL, P., CAMACHO DA ENCARNAÇÃO, S., SCHNEIDER, H. & MÄUSBACHER, R. (2013): A multi-proxy reconstruction and comparison of Holocene palaeoenvironmental changes of the Alvor and Alcantarilha estuaries (southern Portugal). – Revue de Micropaléontologie 56 (4): 131-158 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revmic.2013.10.003

SCHNEIDER, H., HÖFER, D., TROG, C., BUSCH, S., SCHNEIDER, M., BAADE, J., DAUT, G. & MÄUSBACHER, R. (2010): Holocene estuary development in the Algarve Region (Southern Portugal) – A reconstruction of sedimentological and ecological evolution. – Quaternary International 221: 141-158 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2009.10.004

SCHNEIDER, H., HÖFER, D., IRMLER, R., DAUT, G. & R. MÄUSBACHER (2010): The correlation between climate, man and debris flow events – a palynological approach. – Geomorphology 120: 48-55 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.09.014

SCHNEIDER, H., HÖFER, D., TROG, C., DAUT, G., HILBICH C. & R. MÄUSBACHER (2008): Geoarcheological reconstruction of lagoon development in the Algarve Region (South Portugal). Abstract Volume 12th IPC. – Terra Nostra 2008 (2): 248.

SCHNEIDER, H., HÖFER, D., TROG, C., DAUT, G., HILBICH, C. & MÄUSBACHER, R. (2007): Geoarcheological reconstruction of the coast development in the Algarve region (South Portugal). EGU 2007 15.-20.4. 2007, Vienna, Austria. – Geophysical Research Abstracts 9.

SCHNEIDER, H., HÖFER, D., MÄUSBACHER, R. & GUDE, M. (2007): Past flood events reflected in Holocene floodplain records of East-Germany. – Geomorphology 92 (3-4/1): 208-219 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.07.038

HÖFER, D. & SCHNEIDER, H. (2006): Erdgaspipeline Stegal-Loop: Begleitprojekt Pollenanalyse. –  Neue Ausgrabungen und Funde in Thüringen 2: 147-156.

SCHNEIDER, H., HÖFER, D. & SIEBERT, A. (2003): Subatlantische Vegetationsentwicklung in Thüringen am Beispiel der Breitunger Seen und des Durchströmungsmoores bei Bad Klosterlausnitz. – In: 13. Jahrestreffen des AK Vegetationsgeschichte der RTG, 7.-9. November 2003, Wiesbaden.

SCHNEIDER, H., DAUT, G., HENKEL, K., HÖFER, D., IGL, M., MÄUSBACHER, R. & VAN DER BORG, K. (2002): Untersuchungen an Subrosionssenken des mittleren Werratals. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen, N. F. 9: 325-340.

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John-Albrecht Keiler Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Dipl.-Restaurator  John-Albrecht Keiler
Head of technical preservation

Responsibilities

  • Head of technical preservation at the location Weimar
  • Head of technical working group excavation and preparation
  • Assistant coordinator of local excavations
  • Analyses of the state of preservation of historical Pleistocene vertebrate collections and development of new methods for conservation
  • Providing expert opinion on the conservation of Quaternary collections
  • Excavation, preparation, and conservation of Quaternary fossil material
  • 3D digitization and visualization of the type specimen collection (project management, since 2021)

Quaternary palaeontology division | working group excavation and preparation

KEILER, J.-A., BENECKE, M., KEILER, J. (2020): Bone modifications by insects from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: Kahlke, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Part 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): 1117-1132; Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz.

KEILER, J.-A., WENZEL, T. (2019): Raubgräber in Untermassfeld. – Natur • Forschung • Museum 149 (10-12): 184-191.

UHL, D., KUNZMANN, L., HERTLER, C., KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., KÖNIGSHOF, P., KULLMER, O., SCHAAL, S.F.K., SMITH, K.T., SOLÓRZANO KRAEMER, M.M., STEBICH, M., TIETZ, O., WILMSEN, M. (2018): Palaeontological collections of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. – In: BECK, L. A., JOGER, U. (Eds.): Paleontological collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland – The history of life of fossil organisms at museums and universities. – 209-240, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77401-5

KEILER, J.-A. (2017): Konzepte der Präventiven Konservierung für die Sammlungen der Senckenberg Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar. – Der Präparator 63: 66-85. 

KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A. & KIENAST, F. (2014): Senckenberg Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar. – In: WERNEBURG, R. & MEY, E. (Hrsg.), (2014): Thüringer Natur-Schätze : Naturkundliche Museen und Sammlungen im Freistaat Thüringen. – 138-147; Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg.

KIENAST, F., KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., STEBICH, M. & WILDE, V. (2012): Weimarer quartärbotanische Sammlungen in neuem Domizil. – Natur • Forschung • Museum 142 (9/10): 324-327.

KEILER, J.-A. (2009): Präparation fossiler Säugetierschädel im virtuellen Zeitalter. – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 178-183.

KEILER, J.-A. (2008): Bergung, Präparation und Konservierung fossiler Säugetierschädel aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld/Thüringen. Eine methodologische Betrachtung. – Der Präparator 54: 62-83.

KAHLKE, R.-D., UTSCHIG, G., KEILER, J.-A., RÖSSLER, D. & STACHE, M. (2007): Umzug der Eiszeitsammlungen / Move of the Ice Age collections. – In: JÄGER, P., KÖNIGSHOF, P., VEIT-KÖHLER, G., WENZEL, T. (Hrsg.) (2007). Senckenberg 2005-06. – 92; Frankfurt/M.

KEILER, J.-A. (2007): Bergung, Präparation und Konservierung fossiler Säugetierschädel aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld/ Thüringen. Ein Methodenvergleich im virtuellen Zeitalter. Abstractband Paläobiologischer Präparationsworkshop vom 26.-29.4.2007 in Weimar. 12-13, 1 Taf.; Weimar.

KEILER, J.-A (2006): Bergung, Präparation und Konservierung fossiler Säugetierschädel aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld/Thüringen. Eine methodologische Studie. Diplomarbeit Studiengang Restaurierung/Grabungstechnik, Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft/University of Applied Sciences Berlin.

RÖSSLER, D., STACHE, M., UTSCHIG, G. & KEILER, J.-A. (2006): Umzug der quartärpaläontologischen Sammlungen Weimar 2005. Logistik und Durchführung. – 45. Tagung Verband Deutscher Präparatoren (VDP).

RÖSSLER, D., STACHE, M., UTSCHIG, G., KEILER, J.-A. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2006): Umzug der Fossilsammlungen der Senckenbergischen Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar. Logistik und Durchführung. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 23: III + 17-19.

KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C. & KEILER, J.-A. (2003): Die Forschungsgrabungen im Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld/Südthüringen (Abstract). – Sonderschau zur Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft „Biodiversität. Endogene und exogene Hintergründe“, 29. September bis 3. Oktober 2003. – Beilage zur Tagungsmappe: 1-4; Mainz.

KEILER, J.-A., STACHE, M. & RÖSSLER, D. (2003): Methoden der Grabung, Präparation und Konservierung unterpleistozäner Wirbeltierreste von Untermaßfeld/Südthüringen (Abstract). – Biodiversität. Exogene und endogene Hintergründe, 73. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft vom 29.9.-3.10.2003 in Mainz. Terra Nostra 2003 (5): 81-82; Berlin.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 3: Insekten. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (Hrsg.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N.  F. 9: 173-186.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Quaternary insect evidence in Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (Eds.) (2002): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 51-58; Quaternary Research Association, London.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Ehrung für Thüringer Quartärpaläontologen in den USA. Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 15 (1/02): 24.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Senckenberg-Ehrung für Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Kahlke. Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 14 (1/01): 50.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Senckenbergische Grabungen im Dinotheriensand von Eppelsheim. Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 14 (1/01): 32-33, Abb. 47-50.

KEILER, J.-A. (2001): Die Polyvinylbutyral-Tränkungsmethode für fossile Knochen. – Der Präparator 47 (2): 49-56.

KEILER, J.-A. (2001): Die Koprolithen aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld. –  In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 2. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (2): 691-698 + Taf. 128-131; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.559

KEILER, J.-A. (2001): Die Präparation und Konservierung des Fossilmaterials aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 2. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (2): 461-482 + Taf. 68-71; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.559

KEILER, J.-A. & KOVAC, D. (2001): Travertininsekten. – Natur und Museum 131 (6): 195-197.

KEILER, J.-A. (1997): 35. Internationale Arbeitstagung des Verbandes Deutscher Präparatoren e. V. vom 26. bis 30. März 1996 am Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt/Main. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 7 (1/97): 90-91.

KEILER, J.-A. (1995): Bergung und Präparation pleistozäner Wirbeltierreste unter Berücksichtigung des Fossilmaterials der Komplexfundstelle Untermaßfeld/Südthüringen. – Restaurierung und Museumstechnik 12: 1-31 + 24 Taf.

KEILER, J.-A. (1995): Libellenlarvenreste (Odonata: Anisoptera) aus dem letztinterglazialen Travertin von Burgtonna/Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N.  F. 2: 101-106.

KEILER, J.-A. (1994): Nutzung der Transfer-Methode zur Stabilisierung pleistozäner Wirbeltierreste. – Der Präparator 40 (3): 115-118.

KEILER, J.-A. (1993): Auf den Spuren der Säbelzahnkatze. Ausgrabung, Präparation und Rekonstruktion eiszeitlicher Großsäugerreste aus Thüringen. – Schülerakademie Jena, Programm Schuljahr 1993/94, Jena.

KEILER, J.-A. (1992): Bergung und Präparation pleistozäner Wirbeltierreste unter Berücksichtigung des Fossilmaterials der unterpleistozänen Komplexfundstelle Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen. – Examensarbeit, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

KEILER, J.-A. (1991): Klebstoffe kritisch betrachtet. Ein Beitrag zur paläontologischen Präparationstechnik. – Der Präparator 37 (2): 81-84.

KEILER, J.-A. (1990): Aspekte der Bergung und Präparation pleistozäner Wirbeltierreste am Beispiel des Fossilmaterials der unterpleistozänen Komplexfundstelle Untermaßfeld/Thüringen (Abstract). – 3. Symposium des International Council Of Museum (ICOM/ICNHM) im Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 26.-29.Okt.1990 in Berlin.

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Salman Khan
Dr Salman Khan
Research associate of Quaternary microfloras section

Research interests

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Quaternary palaeontology | Quaternary microfloras

Curriculum vitae | ORCiD 0000-0003-0608-173X

since 05/2023
scientific assistant at the Quaternary Microflora Section of Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology in Weimar

TRIPATHI, Swati, SRIVASTAVA, Jyoti, GARG, Arti, KHAN, Salman, FAROOQUI, Anjum, QUAMAR, Firoze, THAKUR, Biswajeet, RANHOTRA, Parminder, BASUMATARY, Sadhan, TRIVEDI, Anjali, PANDEY, Shilpa, KRISHNAMURTHY, Anupama, PRASAD, S. & REGHU, Navya (2022): Surface pollen quantification and floristic survey at Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Azad (SCSA) Bird Sanctuary, Central Ganga Plain, India: a pilot study for the palaeoecological implications. – Journal of Palaeosciences 71 (2): 159-176.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.2022.1838.

TRIVEDI, A., SRIVASTAVA, A., FAROOQUI, A., KHAN, S., POKHARIA, A. K., FERGUSON, D. K. & SINGH, V. K. (2022): Pollen morphological study in subfamily Papilionoideae using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy. – Journal of Palaeosciences 71 (2): 123-142.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.2022.538.

QUAMAR, Mohammad Firoze, GARG, Arti, FAROOQUI, Anjum, PRASAD, Nagendra, KHAN, Salman & SHUKLA, Achuta N. (2022): A New Pollen Aperture in Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Oken from Madhya Pradesh, Central India, and its Taxonomic and Evolutionary Significance. – International Journal of Plant and Environment 8 (2): 133-136 | https://doi.org/10.18811/ijpen.v8i02.07.

KHAN, S., FAROOQUI, A., SHUKLA, U. K., GRØSFJELD, K., KNIES, J. & PRASAD, V. (2022): Late Pliocene continental climate and vegetation variability in the Arctic-Atlantic gateway region prior to the intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciations. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 586: 110746 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110746.

FAROOQUI, Anjum, AGNIHOTRI, Rajesh, KHAN, Salman, GAHLAUD, Sanjay & SHARIEF, M. (2021): Temporal variability in carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes of Strobilanthes kunthianus leaf: Its photosynthetic efficacy and water-use efficiency in a warming climate. – Journal of Earth System Science 130: 241 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-021-01737-5.

FAROOQUI, Anjum, PILLAI, S., AGNIHOTRI, Deepa, KHAN, Salman, TEWARI, Rajni, SHUKLA, Sunil, ALI, Sajid, TRIVEDI, Anjali, PANDITA, Sundeep, KUMAR, Kamlesh, BHAT, G., & AGNIHOTRI, Rajesh. (2021): Impact of climate on the evolution of vegetation in tectonically active Karewa basin, Kashmir Himalayas. – Journal of Earth System Science 130: 93 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-021-01586-2.

TRIPATHI, S., BASUMATARY, S. K., PANDEY, A., KHAN, S., TIWARI, P. & THAKUR, B. (2021): Palaeoecological changes from 580 to 1220 CE from the Indo-Burma region: A biotic assessment from the Barak Valley of Assam, northeast India. – Catena 206: 105487 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105487.

KHAN, Salman, AZHARUDDIN, Syed, TRIPATHI, Swati. (2018): National Conference on Climate Change and Natural Resources: Impact and Sustainable Development in Indian Perspective. — Journal of the Geological Society of India 91: 643 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-018-0917-7.

Frank Kienast Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Dr Frank Kienast
Head of Quaternary macrofloras section

Research interests

  • Quaternary vegetation history of Eurasia
  • Interactions between megaherbivores and vegetation during the Quaternary
  • Ecological consequences of biodiversity loss in the past
  • Composition, structure and functioning of the cold-stage mammoth-steppe biome
  • Impact of permafrost dynamics on Arctic vegetation
  • Phylogeography of Arctic plants

Quaternary palaeontology | Quaternary macrofloras

Curriculum vitae | ORCiD 0000-0001-8367-3363

since 2008
Head of the Quaternary Macroflora Section of Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology in Weimar, curator of the macro-botanical collections, installation of a carpological reference collection

Field work in Yakutia (Northeast Siberia, Russia), Transbaikalia, Mongolia, and Alaska

2004-2007
Postdoc at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (DFG KI 849/1-2, own project)

2003
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant, stay at the Northeast Federal University Yakutsk and fieldwork in Central and Northeast Yakutia (Republic Sakha, Russian Federation)

2002
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), PhD topic: Reconstruction of Late Quaternary vegetation and climate in the Laptev Sea region basing on botanical macro remains

1999-2002
PhD student in the working group „Permafrost deposits as palaeoclimate archives” at the Periglacial Research Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

1998
Diploma degree (Dipl.-Geoecologist), Diploma topic: Quaternary plant macrofossils from Ice Complex deposits at Cape Sabler, Lake Taymyr, N-Siberia

1992-1998 
Diploma student at the University of Potsdam, Department of Geoecology, Minor in Biology

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Scientific publications

SPENGLER III, R. N., KIENAST, F., ROBERTS, P., BOIVIN, N., BEGUN, D. R., ASHASTINA, K. & PETRAGLIA, M. (2023): Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution. – Biological Theory 18 (2): 134-151.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1

KIENAST, F., DAVYDOV, S. P. (2021): Forest Steppe-Like Vegetation Near Cherskiy (West Beringia) During the Early Pleistocene Olyorian Period Reconstructed Using Plant Macrofossils. – Frontiers in Earth Science 9: 741473.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.741473.

REINECKE, J., ASHASTINA, K., KIENAST, F., TROEVA, E., WESCHE, K. (2021): Effects of large herbivore grazing on relics of the presumed mammoth steppe in the extreme climate of NE‑Siberia. – Scientific Reports 11: 12962.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92079-1.

MARTINETTO, E., BERTINI, A., BHANDARI, S., BRUCH, A., CHERIN, M., FIELD, J. H., GABRIELYAN, I., GIANOTTI, F., KERN, A. K., KIENAST, F. LINDSEY, E. L., MOMOHARA, A., RAVAZZI, C., THOMAS, E. R. (2020): The last three millions of unequal spring thaws (chap. 1). In: MARTINETTO, E., TSCHOPP, E., GASTALDO, R. A. (Eds.): Nature through Time. Virtual field trips through the Nature of the past. Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment. – 1-53; Springer | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_1.

SCHIRRMEISTER, L., DIETZE, E., MATTHES, H., GROSSE, G., STRAUSS, J., LABOOR, S., ULRICH, M., KIENAST, F. & WETTERICH, S. (2020): The genesis of Yedoma Ice Complex permafrost – Grain-size endmember modeling analysis from Siberia and Alaska. – E&G Quaternary Science Journal 69 (1): 33-53.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-33-2020

KIENAST, F., ASHASTINA, K. & TROEVA, E. (2018): Phylogeography of a west-Beringian endemic plant: An ancient seed of Stellaria jacutica Schischk. detected in permafrost deposits of the last interglacial. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 259: 48-54 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.09.012.

ASHASTINA, K., KUZMINA, S., RUDAYA, N., TROEVA, E., SCHOCH, W. H., RÖMERMANN, C., REINECKE, J., OTTE, V., SAWINOV, G., WESCHE, K., KIENAST, F. (2018): Woodlands and steppes: Pleistocene vegetation in Yakutia’s most continental part recorded in the Batagay permafrost sequence. – Quaternary Science Reviews 196: 38-61 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.032.

SCHIRRMEISTER, L., KUZNETSOVA, T. V., ANDREEV, A. A., KIENAST, F., BOLSHIYANOV & D. YU (2018): Feldarbeit für die Rekonstruktion der Paläoumwelt. – In: 20 Jahre terrestrische Forschung in der sibirischen Arktis. Die Geschichte der Lena-Expeditionen. – 61-67; Alfred Wegener Institut, Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Berlin.

ASHASTINA, K., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., FUCHS, M. & KIENAST, F. (2017): Palaeoclimate characteristics in interior Siberia of MIS 6–2: first insights from the Batagay permafrost mega-thaw slump in the Yana Highlands. – Climate of the Past 13: 795-818.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-795-2017

DAMM, U., DRESSLER, S., HOPPENRATH, M., KIENAST, F., OTTE, V., PAULE, J., PRINTZEN, C., RITZ, C., WESCHE, K., WESENBERG, J. & ZIZKA, G. (2017): Botanik und Mykologie bei Senckenberg seit 1817 – Herbarium Senckenbergianum Frankfurt/Main, Görlitz, Weimar, Wilhelmshaven. – 1-28; Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt/Main.

SCHIRRMEISTER, L., MEYER, H., ANDREEV, A., WETTERICH, S., KIENAST, F., BOBROV, A., FUCHS, M., SIERRALTA, M. & HERZSCHUH, U. (2016): Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records from the Chatanika River valley near Fairbanks (Alaska). – Quaternary Science Reviews 147259-278 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.009.

SCHLEUSNER, Ph., BISKARBON, B. K., KIENAST, F., WOLTER, J., SUBETTO, D. & DIEKMANN, B. (2015): Basin evolution and palaeoenvironmental variability of the thermokarst lake El’gene-Kyuele, Arctic Siberia. – Boreas 44 (1): 216-229 | https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12084.

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.

KIENAST, F. (2013): Plant macrofossil records – Arctic Eurasia. – In: Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science Vol. 3. – 733-745; Elsevier, 2nd edition.

ANDREEV, A. A., MOROZOVA, E., FEDOROV, G., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., BOBROV, A. A., KIENAST, F. & SCHWAMBORN, G. (2012): Vegetation history of central Chukotka deduced from permafrost paleoenvironmental records of the El’gygytgyn Impact Crater. – Climate of the Past 8: 1287-1300.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1287-2012

WETTERICH, S., GROSSE, G., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., ANDREEV, A. A., BOBROV, A. A., KIENAST, F., BIGELOW, N. H. & EDWARDS, M. E. (2012): Late Quaternary environmental and landscape dynamics revealed from a pingo sequence on the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska. – Quaternary Science Reviews 39: 26-44 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.027.

JØRGENSEN, T., HAILE, J., MÖLLER, P., ANDREEV, A., BOESSENKOOL, S., RASMUSSEN, M., KIENAST, F., COISSAC, E., TABERLET, P., BROCHMANN, C., BIGELOW, N., ANDERSEN, K., ORLANDO, L., GILBERT, P., THOMAS, M. & WILLERSLEV, E. (2012): A comparative study of ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and macrofossils from permafrost sediments of northern Siberia reveals long-term vegetational stability. – Molecular Ecology 21: 1989-2003; | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05287.x.

KIENAST, F., WETTERICH, S.,  KUZMINA, S.,  SCHIRRMEISTER, L., ANDREEV, A. A.,  TARASOV, P.,  NAZAROVA, L., KOSSLER, A., FROLOVA, L. & KUNITSKY, V .V. (2011): Paleontological records indicate the occurrence of open woodlands in a dry inland climate at the present-day Arctic coast in western Beringia during the last interglacial. – Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (17/18): 2134-2159 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.024.

SCHIRRMEISTER, L., GROSSE, G., SCHNELLE, M., FUCHS, M., ULRICH, M., KUNITSKY, V., KRBETSCHEK, M., GRIGORIEV, M., ANDREEV, A., KIENAST, F., MEYER, H., KLIMOVA, I., BABIY, O., BOBROV, A., WETTERICH, S. & SCHWAMBORN, G. (2011): Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records from the western Lena Delta, Arctic Siberia. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 299: 175-196 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.045.

WERNER, K., TARASOV, P. E., ANDREEV, A. A., MÜLLER, S., KIENAST, F., ZECH, M., ZECH, W. & DIEKMANN, B. (2010): A 12.5-kyr history of vegetation dynamics and mire development with evidence of the Younger Dryas larch presence in the Verkhoyansk Mountains, East Siberia, Russia. – Boreas 39 (1): 56-68 | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00116.x.

BINNEY, H. A., WILLIS, K. J., EDWARDS, M. E., BHAGWAT, S. A., ANDERSON, P., ANDREEV, A. A., BLAAUW, M., DAMBLON, F., HAESAERTS, P., KIENAST, F., KREMENETSKI, K. V., KRIVONOGOV, S. K., LOZHKIN, A. V., MACDONALD, G. M., NOVENKO, E. Y., OKSANEN, P., SAPELKO, T. V., VALIRANTA, M. & VAZHENINA, L. (2009): The distribution of Late Quaternary woody taxa in Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database. – Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (23/24): 2445-2464 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.016.

ANDREEV, A., GROSSE, G., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., KUZNETSOVA, T. V., KUZMINA, S. A., BOBROV, A. A., TARASOV, P. E., NOVENKO, E. YU., MEYER, H., DEREVYAGIN, A. YU., KIENAST, F., BRYANTSEVA, A. & KUNITSKY, V. V. (2009): Weichselian and Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky Island, New Siberian Archipelago, Arctic Siberia. – Boreas 38 (1): 72-110 | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00039.x.

KIENAST, F., TARASOV, P., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., GROSSE, G. & ANDREEV, A. (2008): Continental climate in the East Siberian Arctic during the last interglacial: implications from palaeobotanical records. – Global and Planetary Change 60 (3/4): 535-562 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.07.004.

WETTERICH, S., KUZMINA, S., KUZNETSOVA, T., ANDREEV, A. A., KIENAST, F., MEYER, H., SCHIRRMEISTER, L. & SIERRALTA, M. (2008): Palaeoenvironmental dynamics inferred from late Quaternary permafrost deposits on Kurungnakh Island, Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia, Russia. – Quaternary Science Reviews 27 (15/16): 1523-1540 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.04.007.

KIENAST, F., SCHIRRMEISTER, L. & WETTERICH, S. (2008): Vegetation Differentiation across a topographic Yedoma – Alas Transect in the High Arctic Tundra of Oyogos Yar, East Siberia. – Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Permafrost, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. – 937-940.

SCHIRRMEISTER, L., GROSSE, G., KUNITSKY, V., MAGENS, D., MEYER, H., DEREVIAGIN, A., KUZNETSOVA, T., ANDREEV, A., BABIY, O., KIENAST, F., GRIGORIEV, M. & PREUSSER, F. (2008): Periglacial landscape evolution and environmental changes of Arctic lowland areas for the last 60,000 years (Western Laptev Sea coast, Cape Mamontov Klyk). – Polar Research 27: 249-272 | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00067.x.

KIENAST, F. (2007): Arctic Vegetation History – Eurasia. – In: Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. – 2422-2434; Elsevier.

KIENAST, F., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., SIEGERT, C. & TARASOV, P. (2005): Palaeobotanical evidence for warm summers in the East Siberian Arctic during the last cold stage. – Quaternary Research 63 (3): 283-300 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2005.01.003.

KUNITSKY, V. V., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., GROSSE, G. & KIENAST, F. (2002): Snow Patches in Nival Landscapes and Their Role for the Ice Complex Formation in the Laptev Sea Coastal Lowlands. – Polarforschung 70: 53-67.

SCHIRRMEISTER, L., SIEGERT, C., KUZNETSOVA, T., KUZMINA, S., ANDREEV, A. A., KIENAST, F., MEYER, H. & BOBROV, A. A. (2002): Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic records from permafrost deposits in the Arctic region of Northern Siberia. – Quaternary International 89: 97-118 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S1040-6182(01)00083-0.

KIENAST, F. (2002): Die Rekonstruktion der spätquartären Vegetations- und Klimageschichte der Laptewsee-Region auf der Basis botanischer Großrestuntersuchungen. Dissertation, Universität Potsdam.

KIENAST, F., SIEGERT, C., DEREVIAGIN, A. & MAI, D. H. (2001): Climatic implications of late Quaternary plant macrofossil assemblages from the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia. – Global and Planetary Change 31 (1/4): 265-281 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(01)00124-2.

KIENAST, F. (1998): Paläokarpologische Untersuchungen an Ablagerungen des Eiskomplexes vom Kap Sabler: Ein Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion der spätquartären Umweltbedingungen des Taymyrgebietes. Diplomarbeit, Universität Potsdam.

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Popular scientific contributions

ASHASTINA, K. & KIENAST, F. (2016): Geheimnisse im sibirischen Permafrost. – Natur • Forschung • Museum – Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 146 (9/10): 260-273.

KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A. & KIENAST, F. (2014): Senckenberg Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar. – In: Werneburg, R. & Mey, E. (Hrsg.), (2014): Thüringer Natur-Schätze : Naturkundliche Museen und Sammlungen im Freistaat Thüringen. – 138-147; Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg.

KIENAST, F., KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., STEBICH, M. & WILDE, V. (2012): Weimarer quartärbotanische Sammlungen in neuem Domizil. – Natur • Forschung • Museum – Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 142 (9/10): 324-327.

DRESSLER, S., GEBAUER, P., HOPPENRATH, M., KIENAST, F., OTTE, V. & ZIZKA, G. (2011): Das neue Herbarium Senckenbergianum – Alte Institutionen unter einem gemeinsamen neuen Dach. – Natur • Forschung • Museum- Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 141 (3/4): 110-113.

KAHLKE, R.-D., KIENAST, F., MAUL, L. C. & STEBICH, M. (2009): Neuaufstellung der Quartärpaläontologischen Sammlungen. – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 196-201.

KIENAST, F. (2009): Der Untergang der pleistozänen Tundrensteppe. – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 172-177.

KIENAST, F. & STEBICH, M. (2009): Der Thüringische Flieder Syringa thuringiaca (Vitrine Mai/Juni 2009). – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 194-195.

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Expedition reports

SCHIRRMEISTER, L., WETTERICH, S., KUNITSKY, V., TUMSKOY, V., DOBRYNIN, D., DEREVYAGIN, A., OPEL, T., KIENAST, F., KUZNETSOVA, T. & GORODINSKY, A. (2009): Palaeoenviromental studies on the Oyogos Yar coast. – In: BOIKE, J., BOL’SHIYANOV, D. Y., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., WETTERICH, S. (eds.): The Expedition LENA – NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS 2007 during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007/2008. – Reports on Polar and Marine Research 584: 85-154.

WETTERICH, S. & KIENAST, F. (2009): Permafrost and modern environmental dynamics – Studies along the Dimitrii Laptev Strait: Scientific background and objectives. – In: BOIKE, J., BOL’SHIYANOV, D. Y., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., WETTERICH, S. (eds.): The Expedition LENA – NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS 2007 during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007/2008. – Reports on Polar and Marine Research 584: 155-163.

KIENAST, F. (2009): Modern vegetation in the coastal lowlands of Oyogos Yar. – In: BOIKE, J., BOL’SHIYANOV, D. Y., SCHIRRMEISTER, L., WETTERICH, S. (eds.): The Expedition LENA – NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS 2007 during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007/2008. – Reports on Polar and Marine Research 584: 165-173.

KIENAST, F. & GOGOLEVA, P. A. (2007): Vegetation studies in extremely continental regions of Yakutia. – Reports on Polar and Marine Research 550: 275-289.

KIENAST, F. & TSHERKASOVA, J. (2001): Comparative botanical recent-studies in the Lena River Delta. – Berichte zur Polarforschung 388: 24-44.

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Frank Krause Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Frank Krause
Caretaker

Responsibilities

  • Supervision of the building’s technical equipment
  • Small repairs and obtaining materials
  • Care of the gardens
  • Support of excavation and preparation work
Rebecca Wunder TeamQuartärpaläontologie Weimar
Rebecca Michalik
Preparator of geosciences

Responsibilities

  • Excavation, preparation and conservation of Quaternary fossil material
  • Technical management of the collections
  • Monitoring of the state of preservation of historical collections
  • Maintenance of collection database

Quaternary palaeontology division | working group excavation and preparation

WUNDER, R. (2011): Neukonservierung pleistozäner Wirbeltierreste von Voigtstedt. –In: STACHE, M. & MAUS, M. (eds.): Fortbildung Präparationstechnik Geowissenschaften. Burg Lichtenberg, 6. bis 9. Oktober 2011. Abstracts. – 25-26; 3 figs.; Oberstenfeld/Burg Lichtenberg.

Dennis Roessler
Preparator of geosciences

Responsibilities

  • Excavation, preparation and conservation of Quaternary fossil material
  • Production of casts
  • Technical preparation and construction of exhibitions
  • Technical management of the collections

Quaternary palaeontology divison | working goup excavation and preparation

RÖSSLER, D. & STACHE, M. (2009): Präparation von Kleinsäugerfunden. – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 202-205.

KAHLKE, R.-D., UTSCHIG, G., KEILER, J.-A., RÖSSLER, D. & STACHE, M. (2007): Umzug der Eiszeitsammlungen / Move of the Ice Age collections. – In: JÄGER, P., KÖNIGSHOF, P., VEIT-KÖHLER, G. & WENZEL, T. (Hrsg.) (2007). Senckenberg 2005-06. – 92; Frankfurt/M.

STACHE, M. & RÖSSLER, D. (Eds.) (2007): Paläobiologischer Präparations-Workshop: Kurzfassungen der Vortrags- und Posterpräsentationen. – 28; Weimar.

RÖSSLER, D., STACHE, M., UTSCHIG, G. & KEILER, J.-A. (2006): Umzug der quartärpaläontologischen Sammlungen Weimar 2005 – Logistik und Durchführung. – 45. Tagung Verband Deutscher Präparatoren (VDP).

RÖSSLER, D., STACHE, M., UTSCHIG, G., KEILER, J.-A. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2006): Umzug der Fossilsammlungen der Senckenbergischen Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar – Logistik und Durchführung. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 23: III + 17-19.

KEILER, J.-A., STACHE, M. & RÖSSLER, D. (2003): Methoden der Grabung, Präparation und Konservierung unterpleistozäner Wirbeltierreste von Untermaßfeld/Südthüringen (Abstract). Biodiversität. Exogene und endogene Hintergründe, 73. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft vom 29.9.-3.10.2003 in Mainz. – Terra Nostra 2003 (5): 81-82; Berlin.

KNÖTSCHKE, N. & RÖSSLER, D. (2002): Neue Ergebnisse des „Vereins zur Förderung der niedersächsischen Paläontologie e. V.“. Präparation eines knochenführenden Gesteinsblocks mit den Schwerpunkten wissenschaftlicher Bearbeitung der Knochen und Präsentation in einer Ausstellung. – Der Präparator 48 (1): 21-30.

Gerald Utschig Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Gerald Utschig
Technical assistent

Responsibilities

  • Chemical processing of sediments for pollen analysis
  • Recent pollen preparation
  • Sediment processing for extraction of small mammal and mollusc remains
  • Selection and preliminary determination of Quaternary molluscs from processed sediment samples
  • Participation in excavations
  • Digital image and graphic processing

Quaternary palaeontology division | working group excavation and preparation

KAHLKE, R.-D., UTSCHIG, G., KEILER, J.-A., RÖSSLER, D. & STACHE, M. (2007): Umzug der Eiszeitsammlungen / Move of the Ice Age collections. – In: JÄGER, P., KÖNIGSHOF, P., VEIT-KÖHLER, G. & WENZEL, T. (Hrsg.) (2007). Senckenberg 2005-06. – 92; Frankfurt/M.

RÖSSLER, D., STACHE, M., UTSCHIG, G., KEILER, J.-A. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2006): Umzug der Fossilsammlungen der Senckenbergischen Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar – Logistik und Durchführung. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 23: III + 17-19.

RÖSSLER, D., STACHE, M., UTSCHIG, G. & KEILER, J.-A. (2006): Umzug der quartärpaläontologischen Sammlungen Weimar 2005 – Logistik und Durchführung. – 45. Tagung Verband Deutscher Präparatoren (VDP).

Honorary research associates (in alphabethical order)

Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Prof Dr Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke
Appointed honorary research associate (Quaternary large mammals)

Research interests

  • Morphology, evolution, systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of Plio-/Pleistocene large mammals of the northern hemisphere
  • Stratigraphy of Plio-/Pleistocene mammal faunas
  • Evolutionary history of Eurasian cold-adapted large mammal faunas
  • Excavation and geologic-taphonomic investigation of Plio-/Pleistocene vertebrate faunas

Quaternary palaeontology | Quaternary large mammals

Curriculum vitae

1977-1982
study of geology and palaeontology at Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald (Baltic Sea area)
Diploma degree (Dipl.-Geol.)

1982
Diploma topic: Late Pleistocene glaciation history of the Isle of Rügen (southern Baltic Sea)

1982-1990
scientific assistant at the Institute of Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar, leader of excavation and research projects

1987
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald. PhD topic: Fossil European hippopotamids (summa cum laude)

1990,1991
research stays in North and Northeast China

1991-1992
director in charge of the Institute of Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar

since 1991
head of the excavation of the Lower Pleistocene carcass field of Untermassfeld / Southern Thuringia and other field and research projects

1992
research trips to Eastern Siberia and the Siberian Arctic

1992-1999
head of the Quaternary Palaeontology department, Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

1993
habilitation at Christian Albrechts University, Kiel (Dr. habil., palaeontology and geology). Topic: Evolutionary history of cold-adapted large mammal faunas in Eurasia during the Plio-/Pleistocene

1995-2009
lectureships at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

1997
“Visiting Scientist“ at the Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota, USA

since 1998
research trips and participations in projects in Georgia

2000-2022
head of the Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology at the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

2000
leader of a Quaternary palaeontological reconnaissance expedition to southern Yemen (Hadhramout)

2001
participation in Cerpolex/Mammuthus 2001 polar expedition (Tajmyr peninsula, Siberian Arctic)

2002-2005
preparation of the move of the Weimar institute to a new location, reorganisation and employment of new staff

2004
co-organisation of the 18th International Senckenberg Conference “Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations

2005-2007
reorganisation of 10 Quaternary palaeontological collections in Weimar

2010
professorate for Quaternary Palaeontology at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

2011
Hanns Christian Schroeder-Hohenwarth Award of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

since 2022
appointed honorary research associate of the Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology

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Scientific publications (selection since 1997)

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2022): Foreword. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): IX-X; RGZM, Mainz.

KIERDORF, U., FLOHR, S., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2022): Post-traumatic osteomyelitis in an immature Bison menneri from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): 1325-1337; RGZM, Mainz.

IANNUCCI, A., MECOZZI, B., KAHLKE, R.-D., SARDELLA, R. (2022): New results on hyaenids from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): 1403-1422; RGZM, Mainz.

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2022): New results on felids from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): 1465-1566; RGZM, Mainz.

REUMER, J. W. F., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2022): New results on cercopithecids from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): 1627-1633; RGZM, Mainz.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2022): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld – A synopsis of site origin, palaeobiodiversity, taphonomic characteristics, palaeoenvironment, chronostratigraphy, and significance in western Palaearctic faunal history. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): 1635-1734 + Foldout II+III; RGZM, Mainz.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2020): Preface. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): XI-XII; RGZM, Mainz.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2020): Excavation progress and research at the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld during the years 1997–2015. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): 1031-1078 + foldout I; RGZM, Mainz.

KAHLKE, R.-D., LINNEMANN, U., GÄRTNER, A. (2020): New results on the origin and geological history of the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): 1079-1104; RGZM, Mainz.

GERDES, A., GÄRTNER, A., LINNEMANN, U., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2020): In situ U-Pb geochronology of re-deposited travertine from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): 1105-1115; RGZM, Mainz.

BREDA, M., KAHLKE, R.-D., LISTER, A. M. (2020): New results on cervids from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): 1197-1249; RGZM, Mainz.

KIERDORF, U., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2020): Pathological findings on remains of hippopotamids from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): 1251-1272; RGZM, Mainz.

KOTOWSKI, A., STEFANIAK, K., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2020): A rhinocerotid skull from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): 1273-1293; RGZM, Mainz.

CAPPELLINI, E., WELKER, F., PANDOLFI, L., RAMOS MADRIGAL, J., FOTAKIS, A. K., LYON, D., MORENO MAYAR, V. J., BUKHSIANIDZE, M., RAKOWNIKOW JERSIE-CHRISTENSEN, R., MACKIE, M., GINOLHAC, A., FERRING, R., TAPPEN, M., PALKOPOULOU, E., SAMODOVA, D., RUETHER, P. L., DICKINSON, M. R., STAFFORD, T., CHAN, Y. L., GOETHERSTROEM, A., NATHAN, S. K. S. S., HEINTZMANN, P. D., KAPP, J. D., KIRILLOVA, I., MOODLEY, Y., AGUSTI, J., KAHLKE, R.-D., KILADZE, G., MARTINEZ-NAVARRO, B., LIU, S., SANDOVAL VELASCO, M., SINDING, M.-H. S., KELSTRUP, C. D., ALLENTOFT, M. E., KROGH, A., ORLANDO, L., PENKMAN, K., SHAPIRO, B., ROOK, L., DALEN, L., GILBERT, M. T. P., OLSEN, J. V., LORDKIPANIDZE, D., WILLERSLEV, E. (2019): Early Pleistocene enamel proteome sequences from Dmanisi resolve Stephanorhinus phylogeny. – Nature 574 (7776): 103-107| https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1555-y.

REUMER, J. W. F., MOL, D., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2019): Eerste vondsten van de Pleistocene berberaap (Macaca sylvanus) uit de Noordzee. – gea 52 (2): 31-33.

PFEIFER, S. J., HARTRAMPH, W. L., KAHLKE, R.-D., MÜLLER, F. A. (2019): Hard, stiff and tough: Proboscidean ivory was the most suitable osseous raw material for Late Pleistocene big game projectiles. – Scientific Reports 9: 2303
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38779-1

CAPPELLINI, E., WELKER, F., PANDOLFI, L., RAMOS MADRIGAL, J., FOTAKIS, A. K., LYON, D., MORENO MAYAR, V. J., BUKHSIANIDZE, M., RAKOWNIKOW JERSIE-CHRISTENSEN, R., MACKIE, M., GINOLHAC, A., FERRING, R., TAPPEN, M., PALKOPOULOU, E., SAMODOVA, D., RÜTHER, P. L., DICKINSON, M. R., STAFFORD, T., CHAN, Y. L., GÖTHERSTRÖM, A., NATHAN, S. K. S. S., HEINTZMAN, P. D., KAPP, J. D., KIRILLOVA, I., MOODLEY, Y., AGUSTI, J., KAHLKE, R.-D., KILADZE, G., MARTÍNEZ-NAVARRO, B., LIU, S., SANDOVAL VELASCO, M., SINDING, M.-H. S., KELSTRUP, C. D., ALLENTOFT, M. E., KROGH, A., ORLANDO, L., PENKMAN, K., SHAPIRO, B., ROOK, L., DALÉN, L., GILBERT, M. T. P., OLSEN, J. V., LORDKIPANIDZE, D., WILLERSLEV, E. (2018): Early Pleistocene enamel proteome sequences from Dmanisi resolve Stephanorhinus phylogeny. – bioRxiv: 34 S.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1101/407692

REUMER, J. W. F., MOL, D., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2018): First finds of Macaca sylvanus (Cercopithecidae, Primates) from the North Sea. – Revue de Paléobiologie 37 (2): 555-560 | doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2545095.

UHL, D., KUNZMANN, L., HERTLER, C., KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., KÖNIGSHOF, P., KULLMER, O., SCHAAL, S.F.K., SMITH, K.T., SOLÓRZANO KRAEMER, M.M., STEBICH, M., TIETZ, O., WILMSEN, M. (2018): Palaeontological collections of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. – In: BECK, L. A., JOGER, U. (Eds.): Paleontological collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland – The history of life of fossil organisms at museums and universities. – 209-240; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York | https://doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77401-5.

ROEBROEKS, W., GAUDZINSKI-WINDHEUSER, S., BAALES, M., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2018): Uneven data quality and the earliest occupation of Europe – The case of Untermassfeld (Germany). – Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 1: 5-31.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-017-0003-5

VAN ASPEREN, E. N., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2017): Dietary traits of the late Early Pleistocene Bison menneri (Bovidae, Mammalia) from its type site Untermassfeld (Central Germany) and the problem of Pleistocene ‘wood bison’. – Quaternary Science Reviews 177: 299-313; Elsevier | https://doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.002.

KIERDORF, U., MENG, S., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2016): Resorptive depressions on a horn core of Late Pleistocene (MIS 3) Bison priscus (Bovidae, Mammalia) from northeastern Germany. – International Journal of Paleopathology 15: 76-82; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.08.006.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2015): The maximum geographic extension of Late Pleistocene Mammuthus primigenius (Proboscidea, Mammalia) and its limiting factors. – Quaternary International 379: 147-154; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.03.023.

VAN ASPEREN, E. N., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2015): Dietary variation and overlap in Central and Northwest European Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis and S. hemitoechus (Rhinocerotidae, Mammalia) influenced by habitat diversity. – Quaternary Science Reviews 107: 47-61; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.001.

KAHLKE, R.-D., FRITZ, U., KIERDORF, U. (2015): Badger (Meles meles) predation on European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) during the Eemian interglacial (MIS 5e). – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 95 (2): 223-235; Springer | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-014-0170-z.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2014): The origin of Eurasian Mammoth Faunas (MammuthusCoelodonta Faunal Complex). – Quaternary Science Reviews 96: 32-49; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.012.

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; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.05.005.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2012): Climatic cyclicity, mammal communities and ecological stimuli of Early to early Middle Pleistocene hominin dispersal in the western Palaearctic. – Quaternary International 279-280: 230-231; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.500.

KIERDORF, U., KAHLKE, R.-D., FLOHR, S. (2012): Healed fracture of the tibia in a bison (Bison menneri Sher, 1997) from the late Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld (Thuringia, Germany). – International Journal of Paleopathology 2: 19-24; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2012.03.001.

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D., VEKUA, A. K. (2011): The cheetah Acinonyx pardinensis (CROIZET et JOBERT, 1828) s.l. at the hominin site of Dmanisi (Georgia) – A potential prime meat supplier in Early Pleistocene ecosystems. – Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 2703-2714; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.05.024.

KAHLKE, R.-D., KAISER, T. M. (2011): Generalism as a subsistence strategy: advantages and limitations of the highly flexible feeding traits of Pleistocene Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis (Rhinocerotidae, Mammalia). – Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 2250-2261; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.012.

KAHLKE, R.-D., GARCÍA, N., KOSTOPOULOS, D. S., LACOMBAT, F., LISTER, A. M., MAZZA, P. P. A., SPASSOV, N., TITOV, V. V. (2011): Western Palaearctic palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Early and early Middle Pleistocene inferred from large mammal communities, and implications for hominin dispersal in Europe. – Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 1368-1395; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.07.020.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2010): The origin of Eurasian mammoth faunas. – Quaternaire, Hors-série 3: 21-22; Paris.

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D., VEKUA, A. K. (2010): Panthera onca georgica ssp. nov. from the Early Pleistocene of Dmanisi (Republic of Georgia) and the phylogeography of jaguars (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abh. 257 (1): 115-127; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart | https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0067.

CAMPOS, P. F., WILLERSLEVA, E., SHER †, A., ORLANDO, L., AXELSSON, E., TIKHONOV, A., AARIS-SØRENSEN, K., GREENWOOD, A., KAHLKE, R.-D., KOSINTSEV, P., KRAKHMALNAYA, T., KUZNETSOVA, T., LEMEY, P., MACPHEE, R., NORRIS, C. A., SHEPHERD, K., SUCHARD, M. A., ZAZULA, G. D., SHAPIRO, B., GILBERT, M. T. P. (2010): Ancient DNA analyses exclude humans as the driving force behind late Pleistocene musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) population dynamics. – Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (12): 5675-5680 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907189107.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2009): Les communautés de grands mammifères du Pléistocène inférieur terminal et le concept d’un biochrone Épivillafranchien. – Quaternaire 20 (4): 415-427 | URL: http://quaternaire.revues.org/5292

ÁLVAREZ-LAO, D., KAHLKE, R.-D., GARCÍA, N., MOL, D. (2009): The Padul mammoth finds – On the southernmost record of Mammuthus primigenius in Europe and its southern spread during the Late Pleistocene. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 278 (1-4): 57-70; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.04.011.

KAHLKE, R.-D., LACOMBAT, F. (2008): The earliest immigration of woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta tologoijensis, Rhinocerotidae, Mammalia) into Europe and its adaptive evolution in Palaearctic cold stage mammal faunas. – Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 1951-1961; Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.07.013.

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D., KELLER, T. (2008): Cheetahs in the Middle Pleistocene of Europe: Acinonyx pardinensis(sensu lato) intermedius (THENIUS, 1954) from the Mosbach Sands (Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 249 (3): 345-356; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart | https://doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0249-0345.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2007): Late Early Pleistocene European large mammals and the concept of an Epivillafranchian biochron. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 259: 265-278; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart | https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510613908/CFS_Courier_Forschungsinstitut_Senckenbe.

VALDIOSERA, C. E., GARCÍA, N., ANDERUNG, C., DALÉN, L., CRÉGUT-BONNOURE, E., KAHLKE, R.-D., STILLER, M., BRANDSTRÖM, M., THOMAS, M. G., ARSUAGA, J. L., GÖTHERSTRÖM, A., BARNES, I. (2007): Staying out in the Cold: Glacial Refugia and Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeography in Ancient European Brown Bears. – Molecular Ecology 16 (24): 5140-5148; Oxford | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03590.x.

LORDKIPANIDZE, D., JASHASHVILI, T., VEKUA, A., PONCE DE LEÓN, M.S., ZOLLIKOFER, C. P. E., RIGHTMIRE, G. P., PONTZER, H., FERRING, R., OMS, O., TAPPEN, M., BUKHSIANIDZE, M., AGUSTI, J., KAHLKE, R.-D., KILADZE, G., MARTINEZ-NAVARRO, B., MOUSKHELISHVILI, A., NIORADZE, M., ROOK, L. (2007): Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia. – Nature 449: 305-310 (20. September 2007) | https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06134.

VALDIOSERA, C., GARCIA, N., DALÉN, L. SMITH, C., KAHLKE, R.-D., LIDÉN, K., ANGERBJÖRN, A., ARSUAGA, J. L., GÖTHERSTRÖM, A. (2006): Typing single polymorphic nucleotides in mitochondrial DNA as a way to access Middle Pleistocene DNA. – Biology Letters 2 (4): 601-603 | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0515

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2006): Asiatic origins of Palaearctic cold-adepted larger mammal faunas. – In: ALEXEEVA, N., ERBAJEVA, M. A., MIRONOV, A. G. (Eds): Stratigraphy, paleontology and paleoenvironment of Pliocene-Pleistocene of Transbaikalia and interregional correlations. International symposium, August 28th-September 3rd, 2006, Ulan-Ude, Volume of Abstracts: 47; Ulan-Ude.

MOL, D., TIKHONOV, A., VAN DER PLICHT, J., KAHLKE, R.-D., DEBRUYNE, R., VAN GEEL, B., VAN REENEN, G., PALS, J. P., DE MARLIAVE, C., REUMER, J. W. F. (2006): Results of the Cerpolex/Mammuthus Expeditions on the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Siberia, Russian Federation. – Quaternary International 142-143: 186-202 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2005.03.016

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2005): Nachweis des Jaguars (Panthera onca gombaszoegensis) aus dem späten Unter- oder frühen Mittelpleistozän der Niederlande. – Deinsea 11: 47-57; Rotterdam.
Open access: https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/documents-nmr/Publicaties/Deinsea/Deinsea_11/05_DSA11Hemmer.pdf

KAISER, T. M., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2005): The highly flexible feeding strategy of Stephanorhinus etruscus ( FALCONER , 1859) (Rhinocerotidae, Mammalia) during the early Middle Pleistocene in Central Europe. – Berichte des Instituts für Erdwissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 10: 50-53; Graz.
Open access: http://iewarchiv.uni-graz.at/berichte/files/band10.pdf

KAHLKE, R.-D., GAUDZINSKI S. (2005): The blessing of a great flood: differentiation of mortality patterns in the large mammal record of the Lower Pleistocene fluvial site of Untermassfeld (Germany) and its relevance for the interpretation of faunal assemblages from archaeological sites. – Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 1202-1222 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.03.004

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Bibliography 1951-2004 of HANS-DIETRICH KAHLKE. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. (Eds): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar. Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 31-54; Berlin.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Late Early Pleistocene European large mammals: a mixture of Villafranchian and Galerian (Cromerian) elements? – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. (Eds): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar. Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 125-127; Berlin.

MOL, D., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): The Fishhook Mammoth – A Late Pleistocene (Early Sartanian) individual of Mammuthus primigenius with preserved gut contents from the Upper Taimyra River (Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Siberia). – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. (Eds): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar. Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 179-180; Berlin.

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D., VEKUA, A. (2004): The Old World puma – Puma pardoides (OWEN, 1846) (Carnivora: Felidae) – in the Lower Villafranchian (Upper Pliocene) of Kvabebi (East Georgia, Transcaucasia) and its evolutionary and biogeographical significance. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 233 (2): 197-231; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart | https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/233/2004/197.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Contemporary mammals of Mammuthus meridionalis during the late Lower Pleistocene in Europe – The diverse Epivillafranchian Untermassfeld fauna. – Occasional Papers in Earth Science 5, 3rd International Mammoth Conference: 51-54; Whitehorse.

NIELSEN-MARSH, C., OSTROM, P. H., GANDHI, H., SHAPIRO, B., COOPER, A., HAUSCHKA, P. V., KAHLKE, R.-D., COLLINS, M. J. (2003): Ancient protein sequences: a new direction for molecular palaeontology. – American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans 23th -27th March, 2003; New Orleans.

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D., KELLER, T. (2003): Panthera onca gombaszoegensis (KRETZOI, 1938) aus den frühmittelpleistozänen Mosbach-Sanden (Wiesbaden, Hessen, Deutschland) – Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Variabilität und Verbreitungsgeschichte des Jaguars. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 229 (1): 31-60; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart | https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/229/2003/31.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 5: Großsäugetiere. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D., WUNDERLICH, J. (Hrsg.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen, N. F. 9: 207-232; Jena.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): The Quaternary large mammal faunas of Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A., SCHREVE, D. C. (Eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings), Field Guide: 59-78; Quaternary Research Association, London.

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: 163-177; Quaternary Research Association, London.

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D., VEKUA, A. K. (2001): The Jaguar – Panthera onca gombaszoegensis (KRETZOI, 1938) (Carnivora: Felidae) in the late Lower Pleistocene of Akhalkalaki (South Georgia; Transcaucasia) and its evolutionary and ecological significance. – Geobios 34 (4): 475-486 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-6995(01)80011-5

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2001): Verbesserte geologische Standardprofile zur unterpleistozänen Komplexfundstelle Untermaßfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 2. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (2): 433 – 445 + Anl. I; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.559

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2001): Schädelreste von Hippopotamus aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 2. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (2): 483-500 + Taf. 77-78; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.559

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2001): Die unterpleistozäne Komplexfundstelle Untermaßfeld – Zusammenfassung des Kenntnisstandes sowie synthetische Betrachtungen zu Genesemodell, Paläoökologie und Stratigraphie. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 3. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (3): 931-1030 + Anl. I-XV; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open acces: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.560

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2000): The Early Pleistocene (Epivillafranchian) Faunal Site of Untermassfeld (Thuringia, Central Germany). Synthesis of New Results. – In: LORDKIPANIDZE D., BAR-YOSEF O., OTTE, M. (Eds.): Early Humans at the Gates of Europe. Proceedings of the first international symposium. Dmanisi, Tbilisi (Georgia) Septembre 1998. – Etudes et Recherches Archéologiques de l’Université de Liège 92: 123-138; Liège.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (1999): Overview and first quantitative data on the taphonomy of the Lower Pleistocene fossil site of Untermassfeld (Thüringen, Germany). – In: The role of early humans in the accumulation of European Lower and Middle Palaeolithic bone assemblages. Ergebnisse eines Kolloquiums. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 42: 7-19; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.

KIERDORF, U., KAHLKE, R.-D. (1998): Osteochondrosis intervertebralis und Spondylosis deformans bei einem Braunbären (Ursus arctos) aus dem Pleistozän von Weimar-Taubach (Thüringen, Deutschland). – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen, N. F. 5, (HEINZ-WIEFEL-Festschrift): 101-113; Jena.

ELLENBERG, J., KAHLKE, R.-D. (1997): Die quartärgeologische Entwicklung des mittleren Werratals und der Bau der unterpleistozänen Komplexfundstelle Untermaßfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 1. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 40 (1): 29-62 + Taf. 1-18; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.558

KAHLKE, R.-D. (1997): Die Hippopotamus-Reste 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): 277-374 + Taf. 45-62; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.558

KAHLKE, R.-D. (1997): Bisheriger Gesamtbefund zur Geologie, Paläozoologie, Taphonomie, Ökologie und Stratigraphie der unterpleistozänen Komplexfundstelle Untermaßfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 1. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 40 (1): 385-418; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.558

KAHLKE, R.-D., KIERDORF, U. (1997): Diffuse idiopathische skelettale Hyperostose bei einem Bären (Ursus sp.) aus dem Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Südthüringen, Deutschland). – Quartär 47/48: 159-175; Bonn.
Open access: https://quartaer.obermaier-gesellschaft.de/pdfs/1997/1997_08_kahlke.pdf.

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Books and Monographs

KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.) (2022): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): X, 1325-1736 + foldout II+III; RGZM, Mainz.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.) (2020): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 4. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (4): XII, 1031-1324 + foldout I; RGZM, Mainz.

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 | https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510613908/CFS_Courier_Forschungsinstitut_Senckenbe.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2006): Untermassfeld – A late Early Pleistocene (Epivillafranchian) fossil site near Meiningen (Thuringia, Germany) and its position in the development of the European mammal fauna. – BAR International Series 1578: 1-114 + 15 fold outs; Archaeopress, Oxford.

KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C., MAZZA, P. P. A. (Eds) (2006): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Proceedings of the 18 th International Senckenberg Conference (VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar). Volume I. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 256: XII, 1-347; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart | https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510613830/CFS_Courier_Forschungsinstitut_Senckenbe.

KAHLKE, R.-D., MOL, D. (2005): Eiszeitliche Großsäugetiere der Sibirischen Arktis. Die Cerpolex/Mammuthus-Expeditionen auf Tajmyr. – Senckenberg-Buch 77: 1-96; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.

OSTRITZ, S., KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.) (2004): KAHLKE, H.-D., Sonderhausen und Bruchstedt. Zwei Gräberfelder mit älterer Linienbandkeramik in Thüringen. – Weimarer Monographien zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte 39: 1-138 + 55 Taf.; Beier & Beran, Langenweissbach.

MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. (Eds) (2004): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar. Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 1-289; Berlin.

KAHLKE, R.-D., WUNDERLICH, J. (Hrsg.) (2003): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen, N. F. 9: 1-364 + 11 Beil.; Jena.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Fossilien des Eiszeitalters. Einblicke in die Naturgeschichte Europas. – 1-28; Frankfurt/M.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.) (2001): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 3. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (3): VI, 699-1030 + Taf. 132-151 + 15 Anl.; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open acces: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.560

KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.) (2001): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 2. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (2): VIII, 419-698 + Taf. 68-131 + 1 Anl.; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.559

KAHLKE, R.-D. (1999): The History of the Origin, Evolution and Dispersal of the Late Pleistocene Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex in Eurasia (Large Mammals). – 1-219; Fenske, Rapid City.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (Hrsg.) (1997): Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 1. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (1): VI, 1-418 + Taf. 1-67; Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.558

KAHLKE, R.-D. (1994): Die Entstehungs-, Entwicklungs- und Verbreitungsgeschichte des oberpleistozänen Mammuthus-Coelodonta-Faunenkomplexes in Eurasien (Großsäuger). – Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 546: 1-164 + 23 Karten; Frankfurt/M. [vergriffen]

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Popular scientific contributions (selection since 2001)

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2017): Pioniere im Dschungel: die Vietnamesisch-Deutsche Quartär-Expedition 1964. – Natur • Forschung • Museum – Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 143 (1/2): 62-67.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2016): Pioniere im Dschungel: die Vietnamesisch-Deutsche Quartär-Expedition 1964. – In: Schätze der Archäologie Vietnams : Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung; 7. Oktober 2016 – 26. Februar 2017 LWL-Museum für Archäologie, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Herne, 31. März – 20. August 2017 Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz, 16. September 2017 – 7. Januar 2018 Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim. – 30-39; Mainz .

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2015): Eurasiens Kältekünstler – Ursprung der Mammutfaunen älter als bislang bekannt / Eurasia’s Ice Age artists – The roots of mammoth faunas older than previously realized. – In: Senckenberg 2013-2014. – 45-50; Frankfurt/M.

KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., KIENAST, F. (2014): Senckenberg Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar. – In: WERNEBURG, R., MEY, E. (Hrsg.): Thüringer Natur-Schätze : Naturkundliche Museen und Sammlungen im Freistaat Thüringen. – 138-147; Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg.

KAHLKE, R.-D., FISHER, D. (2013): Siberian Trove (Map). – National Geographic Magazine 223 (4): 55.

KAHLKE, R.-D., FISHER, D. (2013): Mammutfriedhof (Karte). – National Geographic Deutschland 2013 (4): 121.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2012): Mammute an der Alhambra. – Natur • Forschung • Museum – Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 142 (9/10): 332-333.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2012): Großgeparde. Frischfleischlieferanten vor 1,8 Millionen Jahren. – Natur • Forschung • Museum – Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 142 (7/8): 266-267.

STUHRMANN, J., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2012): Die Zeit der letzten großen Tiere. – GEO Juni: 106-107; Hamburg.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2011): Fossile Wolfsfunde. Belege einer Erfolgsgeschichte. – Natur • Forschung • Museum – Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 141 (1/2): 35-36.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2009): Das Leichenfeld im Werratal – Europäischer Faunenwandel vor einer Million Jahren. – Natur und Museum 139 (5/6): 146-159.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2007): Soergelia elisabethae. Ein eiszeitliches Faunenelement Eurasiens und Nordamerikas. – Natur und Museum 137 (7/8): 168-169.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2007): Fossile Großsäugetiere der Sibirischen Arktis / Fossil large mammals of the Siberian Arctic. – In: Senckenberg 2005-06. – 37; Frankfurt/M.

KAHLKE, R.-D., UTSCHIG, G., KEILER, J.-A., RÖSSLER, D., STACHE, M. (2007): Umzug der Eiszeitsammlungen / Move of the Ice Age collections. – In: Senckenberg 2005-06. – 92; Frankfurt/M.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2006): Nashörner der Kältesteppe. – Natur und Museum 136 (11/12): 245-255.

GARCIA, N., KAHLKE, R.-D. (2006): Älteste DNA-Nachweise bei fossilen Säugetieren. – Natur und Museum 136 (9/10): 234.

KAHLKE, R.-D., KIERDORF, U. (2005): Diabetes im Fossilbefund? – Natur und Museum 135 (11/12): 280-281.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2005): Pumas in Eurasien. – In: Senckenberg 2004. – 23; Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt/M.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Eiszeitbisons aus dem Nuggetland. – Natur und Museum 134 (12): 423-424.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Fossile Feuerspuren. – Natur und Museum 133 (11): 345-346.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Eurasiens Moschusochsen – einst und jetzt. – Natur und Museum 132 (10): 388-390.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2001): Ein Meer voller Knochen? Pleistozäne Wirbeltierreste aus der Scheldemündung und vom Nordseeboden. – Natur und Museum 131 (12): 417-432.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2001): Eis und heiß – Konservierte Sedimentstrukturen des Quartärs. – Natur und Museum 131 (10): 361-362.

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Mitarbeiterbild Lutz Christian Maul
Dr Lutz Christian Maul
Appointed honorary research associate (Quaternary small mammals)

Research interests

  • 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)

Quaternary palaeontology | Quaternary small mammals

Curriculum vitae | ORCiD 0000-0002-8860-2932

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)

since 1996
teaching (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena)

2000-2022
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”

since 2022
appointed honorary research associate of the Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology

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Scientific publications

LAZAREV, S., MAUL, L. C., KUIPER, K., BECKER, D., BUKHSIANIDZE, M., HOVAKIMYAN, H., SAHAKYAN, L. & VASILYAN, D. (2023): Pliocene volcanic terrain of the South Caucasus as a missing link in Eurasian palaeobiogeography: Dating and palaeoenvironments of vertebrate assemblages of the Jradzor locality, Armenia. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 625: 111685.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111685

BACA, M., POPOVIĆ, D., AGADZHANYAN, A. K., BACA, K., CONARD, N. J., FEWLASS, H., FILEK, T., GOLUBIŃSKI, M., HORÁČEK, I., KNUL, M. V., KRAJCARZ, M., KROKHALEVA, M., LEBRETON, L., LEMANIK, A., MAUL, L. C., NAGEL, D., NOIRET, P., PRIMAULT, J., REKOVETS, L., RHODES, S. E., ROYER, A., SERDYUK, N. V., SORESSI, M., STEWART, J. R., STRUKOVA, T., TALAMO, S., WILCZYŃSKI, J. & NADACHOWSKI, A. (2023): Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals. – Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 290: 20222238.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2238.

MAUL, L. C. (2022): Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region. Boris Kryštufek and Georgy I. Shenbrot. 2022. University of Maribor, University Press. 436 pp. – Journal of Animal Diversity 4 (3): 7-9.
Open access: http://dx.doi.org/10.52547/JAD.2022.4.3.2.

MAUL, L. C. (2022): New results on micromammals from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Vol. 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): 1567-1626; RGZM, Mainz.

SMITH, K. T., COMAY, O., MAUL, L., WEGMÜLLER, F., Le TENSORER, J.-M. & DAYAN, T. (2021): A model of digestive tooth corrosion in lizards: experimental tests and taphonomic implications. – Scientific Reports 11: 12877.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92326-5

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 33 (11): 2773-2793 | https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1827240.

POPOVA, L., MAUL, L. C. & PAZONYI, P. (2021): Biotic evolution and palaeogeography during the Quaternary with special reference to ground squirrels. – Historical Biology 33 (1): 1-3 | https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1852402.

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 Imprint 76 (1): 40-58.
Open access: http://fi.nm.cz/en/

HORÁČEK, I., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I. & MAUL, L. C. (Eds.) (2020): Mammalia. A tribute to Gerhard Storch. Part 2. – Fossil Imprint 76 (1): i-v+1-210.
Open access: http://fi.nm.cz/en/

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 Imprint 76 (1): iii-v.
Open access: http://fi.nm.cz/en/

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.

MASINI, F., MAUL, L. C., ABBAZZI, L., PETRUSO, D. & SAVORELLI, A. (2020): Independent water vole (Mimomys savini, Arvicola: Rodentia, Mammalia) lineages in Italy and Central Europe. – Fossil Imprint 76 (1): 59-83.
Open access: http://fi.nm.cz/en/

HORÁČEK, I., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I. & MAUL, L. C. (Eds.) (2019): Mammalia. A tribute to Gerhard Storch. Part 1.  – Fossil Imprint 75 (3-4): i-xxi+292-509.
Open access: http://fi.nm.cz/en/

HORÁČEK, I., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I., KROHMANN, K. & MAUL, L. C. (2019): Gerhard Storch – a legend in mammal research. – Fossil Imprint 75 (3-4): v-xxi.
Open access: http://fi.nm.cz/en/

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.
Open access: 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.

MAUL, L. C., REKOVETS, L. I., HEINRICH, W.-D. & BRUCH, A. A. (2017): Comments on the age and dispersal of Microtoscoptini (Rodentia: Cricetidae). – Fossil Imprint 73 (3-4): 495-514.
Open access: http://fi.nm.cz/en/

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.
Open access: 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.
Open access: 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 18 (Special Issue: 5th ECM Supplement) : 83.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-18.0-4381

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.
Open access: https://quartaer.obermaier-gesellschaft.de/pdfs/2006/2006_04_fladerer.pdf

KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C., MAZZA, P. P. A. (Eds) (2006): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Proceedings of the 18 th International Senckenberg Conference (VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar). Volume I. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 256: XII, 1-347; Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.

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 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 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 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 | https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03043667.

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.
Open access: http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc/pdf/azc_v/41(1)/41(1)_08.pdf

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. – Palaeontographia 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

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Popular scientific contributions

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. – Natur • Forschung • Museum – Das Senckenberg Wissenschaftsmagazin 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.

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Sabine Schneider Team Quartärpaläontologie Weimar
Dr Torsten Utescher
Appointed honorary research associate (Quaternary microfloras)

Research interests

  • Palaeobotany
  • Palaeoclimate reconstruction
  • Cenozoic palaeoenvironments

Quaternary palaeontology | Quaternary microfloras

Curriculum vitae

1956
born in Karlsruhe

1978-1985
Studies in Geology, Geophysics and Palaeontology at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Heidelberg and Bonn

1985
Diploma degree: Mikrofazielle Untersuchungen in der Nohn-Formation des Ohlesberges, Sötenicher Mulde

1985-1989
PhD-studies in Geology and Palaeontology at the University of Bonn/Germany

1989
PhD at University of Bonn/Germany: Mikrofazielle Untersuchungen im Unter-/Mitteldevon-Grenzbereich des Westlichen Rheinischen Schiefergebirges

1990-2007
Scientific assistant in special research programs and research projects of the German Science Foundation (DFG) at the Universities of Bonn and Tübingen

2007-2022
Scientific assistant in various research programs at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M. and the Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar

since 2022
appointed honorary research associate of the Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology

BHATIA, H., SRIVASTAVA, G., ADHIKARI, P., TAO, S., UTESCHER, T., PAUDAYAL, K. N. & MEHROTRA, R. C. (2022): Asian monsoon and vegetation shift: evidence from the Siwalik succession of India. – Geological Magazine 159 (8): 1397-1414 | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756822000243.

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2023): Early Paleogene precipitation patterns over East Asia: Was there a monsoon after all? – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-023-00586-y

MIAO, Y., ZHANG, T., HUANG, K., WANG, X., NIU, G., WANG, X., YANG, Y., AN, C., XU, H. & UTESCHER, T. (2023): Pollen assemblages reflect a Mid-Miocene precipitation gradient in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 617: 111514 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111514.

SCHEINER, F., HAVELCOVÁ, M., HOLCOVÁ, K., DOLÁKOVÁ, N., NEHYBA, S., ACKERMAN, L., TRUBAČ, J., HLADILOVÁ, S., REJŠEK, J. & UTESCHER, T. (2023): Evolution of palaeoclimate, palaeoenvironment and vegetation in Central Europe during the Miocene Climate Optimum. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 611: 111364 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111364.

SRIVASTAVA, G., BHATIA, H., VERMA, P., SINGH, Y. P., UTESCHER, T. & MEHROTRA, R. C. (2023): High rainfall afforded resilience to tropical rainforests during Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 628: 111762 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111762.

UTESCHER, T., PRASAD, S., RIEDEL, N. & STEBICH, M. (2023): Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of Central India: A case study on the Lonar Crater Lake pollen record. – The Holocene 33 (5): 491-504 | https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231151801.

VERNYHOROVA, Y. V., HOLCOVÁ, K., DOLÁKOVÁ, N., REICHENBACHER, B., SCHEINER, F., ACKERMAN, L., REJŠEK, J., DE BORTOLI, L., TRUBAČ, J. & UTESCHER, T. (2023): The Miocene Climatic Optimum at the interface of epicontinental sea and large continent: A case study from the Middle Miocene of the Eastern Paratethys. – Marine Micropaleontology 181: 102231.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102231

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER. T. (2022): Early Paleogene continental temperature patterns and gradients over eastern Eurasia. – Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 239: 105401.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105401

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2022): Late early to early middle Eocene climate and vegetation change at Tastakh Lake (northern Yakutia, eastern Siberia). Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironment 103 (2): 277-301.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-022-00530-6

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER. T. (2022): Quantitative dynamics of the early Pliocene climate and vegetation in the Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia). – Botanica Pacifica 11 (2); 3-17.
Open Access
: https://doi.org/10.17581/bp.2022.11212

BONDARENKO, O. V., BLOKHINA, N. I., EVSTIGNEEVA, T. A. & UTESCHER, T. (2022): Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene. – Palaeoworld 31 (3): 521-541 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2021.09.006

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.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.37520/fi.2022.002

LI, Q., UTESCHER, T., LIU, Y. (C.), FERGUSON, D., JIA, H. & QUAN, C. (2022): Monsoonal climate of East Asia in Eocene times inferred from an analysis of plant functional types. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 601: 111138.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111138

LI, Q., DENG, W., WAPPLER, T., UTESCHER, T., MASLOVA, N., LIU, Y. (C.), JIA, H., SONG, C., SU, T. & QUAN, C. (2022): High frequency of arthropod herbivore damage in the Miocene Huaitoutala flora from the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 297: 104569 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104569

MIAO, Y., FANG, X., SUN, J., XIAO, W., YANG, Y., WANG, X., FARNSWORTH, A., HUANG, K., REN, Y., WU, F., QIAO, Q., ZHANG, W., MENG, Q., YAN, X., ZHENG, Z., SONG, C. & UTESCHER, T. (2022) A new biologic paleoaltimetry indicating Late Miocene rapid uplift of northern Tibet Plateau. – Science 378 (6624): 1074-1079.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo2475

UHL, D., BRUCH, A. A. & UTESCHER, T. (2021): Introduction to the special issue “Palaeobotanical contributions in honour of Volker Mosbrugger”. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 1-8.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-021-00484-1

IVANOV, D., UTESCHER, T., DJORGOVA, N., BOZUKOV, V. & ASHRAF, A. R. (2021): The late Miocene Beli Breg Basin (Bulgaria): palaeoecology and climate reconstructions based on pollen data. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 79-102 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00475-8

AVERYANOVA, A., TARASEVICH, V., POPOVA, S., UTESCHER, T., LI, S.-F., MOSBRUGGER, V. & XING, Y. (2021): Rupelian Kazakhstan floras in the context of early Oligocene climate and vegetation in Central Asia. ­– Terra Nova 33 (4): 383-399 | https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12523

SRIVASTAVA, G., FARNSWORTH, A., BHATIA, H., MEHROTRA, R., SHEKAR, M., SU, T., UTESCHER, T. & VALDES, P. J. (2021): Climate and vegetation change during the Upper Siwalik – a study based on the palaeobotanical record of the eastern Himalaya. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 103-121 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00457-w

GOSH, R., BISWAS, A., BRUCH, A. A., UTESCHER, T., SEN, I., PARUYA, D. K., GUHA, A., ISLAM, M. S. & BERA, S. (2021): Palaeoclimate estimates based on the late Miocene to early Pleistocene wood flora of the Bengal Basin: an insight into the climatic evolution of southern Asia. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 141-162 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00467-8

HENROT, A.-J., BRUCH, A. A., FRANCOIS, L. M. & UTESCHER, T. (2021): Introduction to NECLIME Special Issue: Biodiversity and floral patterns in the course of Cenozoic climate change. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 613-615 | https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4075

BONDARENKO, O. V., BLOKHINA, N. I., HENROT, A.-J. & UTESCHER, T. (2021): Paleogene vegetation changes in Primorye, Far East of Russia: A study based on diversity of plant functional types. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 650-672 | https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3788

UTESCHER, T., ASHRAF, R. A., KERN, A. & MOSBRUGGER, V. (2021): Diversity patterns in microfloras recovered from Miocene brown coals of the lower Rhine Basin reveal distinct coupling of the structure of the peat-forming vegetation and continental climate variability. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 768-785.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3801

UTESCHER, T., ERDEI, B., FRANCOIS, L. M., HENROT, A.-J., MOSBRUGGER, V. & POPOVA, S. (2021): Oligocene vegetation of Europe and western Asia-Diversity change and continental patterns reflected by plant functional types. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 628-649.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3830

 

Doláková, N., Kováčová, M. & Utescher. T. (2020): Vegetation and Climate Changes during the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO) and Miocene Climatic Transition (MCT) in the northwestern part of Central Paratethys. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 729-743 | https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4056

Bondarenko, O. V., Utescher, T., Blokhina, N. I., Evstigneeva, T. A. & Kezina, T. V. (2020): Temporal climate and vegetation gradient of the Paleocene in the Amur Region (Far East of Russia). – Botanica Pacifica 9 (2): 13-35 | http://botsad.ru/media/aux/bp/BP_2020_9_2_bondarenko.pdf

Bondarenko, O. V., Blokhina, N. I., Mosbrugger, V. & Utescher, T. (2020): Paleogene climate dynamics in the Primorye Region, Far East of Russia, based on a Coexistence Approach analysis of palaeobotanical data. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100: 5-31 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-019-00377-4

Akkiraz, M. S., Utescher, T., Bruch, A. A., Wilde, V., Durak, S. D. & Mosbrugger, V. (2020): Early Miocene palaeoflora and palaeoecology of the Soma Basin, Western Turkey. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100: 923-938 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00434-3

Bondarenko, O. V., Blokhina, N. I. & Utescher, T. (2019): Major plant biome changes in the Primorye Region (Far East of Russia) during the Paleogene. – Botanica Pacifica 8 (1): 1-16 | http://botsad.ru/media/aux/bp/BP_2019_8_1_bondarenko.pdf

Ivanov, D., Tsenov, B., Utescher, T., Kováčová, M., Mosbrugger, V. & Ashraf, R. A. (2019): Climate reconstructions based on Miocene leaf flora from NW Bulgaria: Comparing leaf physiognomy and nearest living relative approach. – Phytologia Balcanica 25 (2): 137-144 | http://www.bio.bas.bg/~phytolbalcan/PDF/25_2/PhytolBalcan_25-2_02_Ivanov_&_al.pdf

Popova, S., Utescher, T., Averyanova, A., Tarasevich, V., Tropina, P. & Xing, Y. (2019): Early Miocene flora of central Kazakhstan (Turgai Plateau) and its paleoenvironmental implications. – Plant Diversity 41: 183-197 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2019.04.002

Popova, S., Utescher. T., Gromyko, D. V., Mosbrugger, V. & François, L. (2019): Dynamics and evolution of Turgay-type vegetation in Western Siberia throughout the early Oligocene to earliest Miocene – a study based on diversity of plant functional types in the carpological record: Oligocene vegetation of western Siberia. – Journal of Systematics and Evolution 57 (2): 129-141 | https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12420

 

Srivastava, G., Paudayal, K. N., Utescher, T. & Mehrotra, R. (2018): Miocene vegetation shift and climate change: Evidence from the Siwalik of Nepal. – Global and Planetary Change 161: 108-120 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.12.001

Prasad, V., Utescher, T., Sharma, A., Singh, I. B., Garg, R., Gogoi, B., Srivastava, J., Uddandam, P. R. & Joachimski, M. M. (2018): Low-latitude vegetation and climate dynamics at the Paleocene-Eocene transition – A study based on multiple proxies from the Jathang section in northeastern India. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 497: 139-156 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.013

 

François, L., Bruch, A. A., Utescher, T., Spicer, R. A. & Spicer, T. (2017): Reconstructing Cenozoic vegetation from proxy data and models – a NECLIME synthesis. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 1-286 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.013

Popova, S., Utescher, T., Gromyko, D. V., Bruch, A. A., Henrot, A.-J. & Mosbrugger, V. (2017): Cenozoic vegetation gradients in the mid- and higher latitudes of Central Eurasia and climatic implications. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 69-82 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.016

Henrot, A.-J., Utescher, T., Erdei, B., Dury, M., Hamon, N., Ramstein, G., Krapp, M., Herold, N., Goldner, A., Favre, E., Munhoven, G. & François, L. M. (2017): Middle Miocene climate and vegetation models and their validation with proxy data. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 95-119 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.05.026

Utescher, T., Erdei, D., Hably, L. & Mosbrugger, V. (2017):  Late Miocene vegetation of the Pannonian Basin. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 131-148 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.042

Yavuz, N., Culha, G., Demirer, S. S., Utescher, T. & Aydin, A. (2017): Pollen, ostracod and stable isotope records of palaeoenvironment and climate: Upper Miocene and Pliocene of the Çankırı Basin (Central Anatolia, Turkey). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 149-185 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.023

Bondarenko, O. V., Blokhina, N. I., Bruch, A. A., Henrot, A.-J. & Utescher, T. (2017): Quantification of Calabrian vegetation in Southern Primory’e (Far East of Russia) using multiple proxies. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 253-264 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.017

Prinz, L., Schäfer, A., McCann, T., Utescher, T., Lokay, P. & Asmus, S. (2017): Facies analysis and depositional model of the Serravallian-age Neurath Sand, Lower Rhine Basin (W Germany). – Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 96 (3): 211-231 | https://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2016.51

Utescher, T., Dreist, A., Henrot, A.-J., Hickler, T., Liu, Y.-S. (C.), Mosbrugger, V., Portmann, F. T. & Salzmann, U. (2017): Continental climate gradients in North America and Western Eurasia before and after the closure of the Central American Seaway. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters 472: 120–130 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.019

Barrón, E., Averyanova, A., Kvaček, Z., Momohara, A., Pigg, K. B., Popova, S., Postigo-Mijarra, J. M., Tiffney, B. H., Utescher, T. & Zhou, Z.-K. (2017): The Fossil History of Quercus. – In: Gil-Pelegrín, E., Peguero-Pina, J. J., Sancho-Knapik, D. (Eds.): Oaks Physiological Ecology. Exploring the Functional Diversity of Genus Quercus L. Tree physiology 7. – 39-105; Springer, Cham | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69099-5_3

 

Huang, Y.-J., Linbo, J., Wang, Q., Mosbrugger, V., Utescher, T., Su, T. & Zhou, Z.-K. (2016): Cenozoic plant diversity of Yunnan: A review. – Plant Diversity 38 (6): 271-282.

Van Dam, J. A. & Utescher, T. (2016): Plant- and micromammal-based paleoprecipitation proxies: comparing results of the Coexistence and Climate-Diversity Approach. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 443: 18-33.

 

Akkiraz, M. S., Akgün, F., Utescher, T., Wilde, V., Bruch, A. A., Mosbrugger, V. & Üçbaş-Durak, S. D. (2015): Palaeoecology of the Early-Middle Miocene Coal-Bearing Sediments: Examples From the Uşak-Güre and Soma Basins. – Geological Bulletin of Turkey 58: 39-59.

Huang, Y.-J., Chen, W.-Y., Jacques, F. M. B., Liu, Y.-S. (C.), Utescher, T., Su, T., Ferguson, D. K. & Zhou, Z.-K. (2015): Late Pliocene temperatures and their spatial variation at the southeastern border of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. – Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 111: 44-53.

Utescher, T., Bondarenko, O. V. & Mosbrugger, V. (2015): The Cenozoic Cooling – continental signals from the Atlantic and Pacific side of Eurasia. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters 415: 121-133.

Licht, A., Boura, A., de Franceschi, D., Utescher, T., Sein, C. & Jaeger, J.-J. (2015): Late middle Eocene fossil wood of Myanmar: Implications for the landscape and the climate of the Eocene Bengal Bay. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 216: 44-54.

Mantzouka, D., Kvaček, Z., Teodoridis, V., Utescher, T., Tsaparas, N. & Karakitsios, V. (2015): A new late Miocene (Tortonian) fora from Gavdos Island in southernmost Greece evaluated in the context of vegetation and climate in the Eastern Mediterranean. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 275: 47-81.

 

Doláková, N., Holcová, K., Hladilová, S., Brzobohatý, R., Zágoršek, K., Hrabovský, J., Seko, M. & Utescher, T. (2014): The Badenianparastratotype at Židlochovice from the perspective of the multiproxy study. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 271: 169-201.

Utescher, T., Bruch, A. A., Erdei, B., François, L., Ivanov, D., Jacques, F. M. B., Kern, A. K., Liu, Y.-S., Mosbrugger, V. & Spicer, R. A. (2014): The Coexistence Approach – Theoretical background and practical considerations of using plant fossils for climate quantification. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 410: 58-73.

Schäfer, A. & Utescher, T. (2014): Origin, sediment fill, and sequence stratigraphy of the Cenozoic Lower Rhine Basin (Germany) interpreted from well logs. – Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 165 (2): 287-314.

Roth-Nebelsick, A., Oehm, C., Grein, M., Utescher, T., Kunzmann, L., Friedrich, J. P. & Konrad, W. (2014): Stomatal density and index data of Platanus neptuni leaf fossils and their evaluation as a CO2 proxy for the Oligocene. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 206: 1-9.

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S., Tang, H. & Utescher, T. (2014): Miocene shift of European atmospheric circulation from trade wind to westerlies. – Scientific Reports 4: 5660.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05660

Quan, C., Liu, Z., Utescher, T., Jin, J., Shu, J., Li, Y. & Liu, Y.-S. (2014): Revisiting the Paleogene climate pattern of East Asia: A synthetic review. – Earth-Science Reviews 139: 213-230.

Mantzouka, D., Kvaček, Z., Teodoridis, V., Utescher, T., Tsaparas, N. & Karakitsios, V. (2014): A new late Miocene (Tortonian) flora from Gavdos Island in southernmost Greece evaluated in the context of vegetation and climate in the Eastern Mediterranean. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 275 (1): 47-81.

 

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S. & Utescher, T. (2013): Paleogene temperature gradient, seasonal variation and climate evolution of northeast China. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 313-314: 150-161.

Bozukov, V., Ivanov, D. & Utescher, T. (2013): Ficus palamarevii sp. nov. (Moraceae), a new subtropical element in the Bulgarian Paleogene flora. – Comptes rendus de l’Académie Bulgare des Sciences 66: 1733-1738.

Bondarenko, O., Blokhina, N. & Utescher, T. (2013): Quantification of Calabrian climate in the higher latitudes (southern Primory’e, Far East of Russia) – an integrative case of study using multiple proxies. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 445-458.

Popova, S., Utescher, T., Gromyko, D. V., Mosbrugger, V., Herzog, E. & Francois, L. (2013): Vegetation change in Siberia and the Northeast of Russia during the Cenozoic Cooling – a study based on diversity of plant functional types. – Palaios 28: 418-432.

Rasmussen, E. S., Utescher, T. & Dybkjaer, K. (2013): Drowning of the Miocene Billund delta, Jylland: land-sea fluctuations during a global warming event. – Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 28: 9-12.

Quan, C., Han, S., Utescher, T., Zhang, C. & Liu, Y.-S (C.) (2013): Validation of temperature-precipitation based aridity index: Paleoclimatic implications. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 86-95.

Grein, M., Oehm, C., Konrad, W., Utescher, T., Kunzmann, L. & Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2013): Atmospheric CO2 from the late Oligocene to early Miocene based on photosynthesis data and fossil leaf characteristics. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 374: 41-51.

 

Akkiraz, M. S., Akgün, F., Utescher, T., Wilde, V., Bruch, A. A., Mosbrugger, V. & Üçbaş, S. D. (2012): Palaeoflora and climate of lignite-bearing lower-middle Miocene sediments in the Seyitömer and Tunçbilek sub-basins, Kütahya Province, Northwest Turkey. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 213-235 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-3-1007-45.pdf

Erdei, B., Utescher, T., Hably, L., Tamás, J., Roth-Nebelsick, A. & Grein, M. (2012): Early Oligocene continental climate of the Palaeogene Basin (Hungary and Slovenia) and the surrounding area. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 153-186 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-1-1005-29.pdf

Hoorn, C., Straathof, J., Abels, H. A., Xu, Y., Utescher, T. & Dupont-Nivet, G. (2012): A late Eocene palynological record of climate change and Tibetan Plateau uplift (Xining Basin, China). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 344-345: 16-38.

Ivanov, D., Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R., Mosbrugger, V., Bozukov, V., Djorgova, N. & Slavomirova, E. (2012): Late Miocene palaeoclimate and ecosystem dynamics in southwestern Bulgaria − a study based on pollen data from the Gotse-Delchev Basin. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 187-211 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-2-1004-45.pdf

Popova, S., Utescher, T., Gromyko, D., Bruch, A. A. & Mosbrugger, V. (2012): Palaeoclimate evolution in Siberia and the Russian Far East from the Oligocene to Pliocene – evidence from fruit and seed floras. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 315-334 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-8-1005-6.pdf

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S. & Utescher, T. (2012): Paleogene temperature gradient, seasonal variation and climate evolution of northeast China. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 313-314: 150-161.

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S. & Utescher, T. (2012): Eocene monsoon prevalence over China: A paleobotanical perspective. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 365-366: 302-311.

Roth-Nebelsick, A., Grein, M., Utescher, T. & Konrad, W. (2012): Stomatal pore length change in leaves of Eotrigonobalanus furcinervis (Fagaceae) from the Late Eocene to the Latest Oligocene and its impact on gas exchange and CO2 reconstruction. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 174: 106-112.

Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R., Dreist, A., Dybkjær, K., Mosbrugger, V., Pross, J. & Wilde, V. (2012): Variability of Neogene continental climates in Northwest Europe – a detailed study based on microfloras. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 289-314 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-7-1005-3.pdf

Xing, Y., Utescher, T., Jacques, F. M. B., Tao S., Liu, Y.-S, Huang, J.-J. & Zhou, Z.-Z. (2012): Paleoclimatic estimation reveals a weak winter monsoon in southwestern China during the late Miocene: Evidence from plant macrofossils. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 358-360: 19-26.

 

Eronen, J. T., Micheels, A. & Utescher, T. (2011): A comparison of estimates of mean annual precipitation from different proxies: a pilot study for the European Neogene. – Evolutionary Ecology Research 13: 851-867.

Grein, M., Oehm, C., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Konrad, W. & Utescher, T. (2011): Atmospheric CO2 at the Oligocene/Miocene transition reconstructed by using fossil plant material. – Geophysical Research Abstract 13: EGU2011-8079.

Akkiraz, M. S., Akgün, F., Utescher, T., Bruch, A. A. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): Precipitation gradients during the Miocene in Western and Central Turkey as quantified from pollen data. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 276-290.

Micheels, A., Bruch, A. A., Eronen, J., Fortelius, M., Harzhauser, M., Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): Analysis of heat transport mechanisms from a Late Miocene model experiment with a fully-coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 337-350.

Liu, Y. C., Utescher, T., Zhou, Z. & Sun, B. (2011): The evolution of Miocene climates in North China: Preliminary results of quantitative reconstructions from plant fossil records. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 308-317.

Bozukov, V. S, Utescher, T., Ivanov, D. A., Tsenov, B. V., Ashraf, A. R. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): New results for the fossil macroflora of the Beli Breg Lignite Basin, West Bulgaria. – Phytologia Balcanica 17: 3-19.

Bruch, A. A., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V. & NECLIME members (2011): Precipitation patterns in the Miocene of Central Europe and the development of continentality. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 202-211.

Ivanov, D., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V., Syabryaj, S., Djordjević-Milutinović, D. & Molchanoff, S. (2011): Miocene vegetation and climate dynamics in Eastern and Central Paratethys (Southeastern Europe). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 262-275.

Utescher, T., Bruch, A. A., Micheels, A., Mosbrugger, V. & Popova, S. (2011): Cenozoic climate gradients in Eurasia a palaeo-perspective on future climate change? – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 351-358.

François, L., Utescher, T., Favre, E., Henrot, A.-J., Warnant, P., Micheels, A., Erdei, B., Suc, J.-P., Cheddadi, R. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): Modelling Late Miocene vegetation in Europe: Results of the CARAIB model and comparison with palaeovegetation data. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 359-378.

Utescher, T., Böhme, M. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): The Neogene of Eurasia: Spatial gradients and temporal trends – The second synthesis of NECLIME. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 196-201.

Grein, M., Utescher, T., Wilde, V. & Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2011): Reconstruction of the middle Eocene climate of Messel using palaeobotanical data. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 260 (3): 305-318.

Grein, M., Konrad, W., Wilde, V., Utescher, T. & Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2011): Reconstruction of atmospheric CO2 during the early middle Eocene by application of a gas exchange model to fossil plants from the Messel Formation, Germany. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 309: 383-391.

Stefanova, M., Ivanov, D. A. & Utescher, T. (2011): Geochemical appraisal of palaeovegetation and climate oscillation in the Late Miocene of Western Bulgaria. – Organic Geochemistry 42: 1363-1374.

Larsson, L. M., Dybkjær, K., Rasmussen, E. S., Piasecki, S., Utescher, T. & Vajda, V. (2011): Miocene climate evolution of northern Europe: A palynological investigation from Denmark. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 309: 161-175.

Quan, C., Liu, Y. C. & Utescher, T. (2011): Paleogene evolution of precipitation in Northeastern China supporting the Middle Eocene intensification of the East Asian Monsoon. – Palaios 26: 743-753.

 

Micheels, A., Popova, S., Uhl, D., Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (2010): Klimawandel und Vegetation im Miozän – was wir aus der Vergangenheit lernen können. – Natur und Museum 140: 268-273.

 

Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V., Ivanov, D. & Dilcher, D. L. (2009): Present-day climatic equivalents of European Cenozoic climates. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters 284: 544-552.

Utescher, T., Ivanov, D., Harzhauser, M., Bozukov, V., Ashraf, A. R., Rolf, C., Urbat, M. & Mosbrugger, V. (2009): Cyclic climate and vegetation change in the late Miocene of Western Bulgaria. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 272: 99-114.

 

Bozukov, V., Utescher, T. & Ivanov, D. (2008): Late Eocene to early Miocene climate and vegetation of Bulgaria. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 153: 360-374.

Ivanov, D., Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R., Mosbrugger, V., Slavomirova, E., Djorgova, N. & Bozukov, V. (2008): Vegetation structure and dynamics in the late Miocene of Staniantsi Basin (west Bulgaria). First results. – Comptes rendus de l’Académie Bulgare des Sciences 61: 223-232.

 

Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (2007): Eocene vegetation patterns reconstructed from plant diversity – A global perspective. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 247: 243-271.

Uhl, D., Klotz, S., Traiser, C., Thiel, C., Utescher, T., Kowalski, E. & Dilcher, D. L. (2007): Cenozoic paleotemperatures and leaf physiognomy – A European perspective. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 248: 24-31.

Steppuhn, A., Micheels, A., Bruch, A. A., Uhl, D., Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (2007): The sensitivity of ECHAM4/ML to a double CO2 scenario for the Late Miocene and the comparison to terrestrial proxy data. – Global and Planetary Change 57: 189-212.

Erdei, B., Hably, L., Kázmér, M., Utescher. T. & Bruch, A. A. (2007): Neogene flora and vegetation development in the Pannonian Basin – relations to palaeoclimate and palaeogeography. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 115-140

Syabryaj, S., Molchanoff, S., Utescher,T. & Bruch, A. A. (2007): Changes of climate and vegetation during the Miocene on the territory of Ukraine. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 153-168.

Utescher, T., Dordjevic-Milutinovic, D., Bruch, A. A. & Mosbrugger, V. (2007): Palaeoclimate and vegetation change in Serbia during the last 30 Ma. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 157-168.

Utescher, T., Erdei, B., Francois, L. & Mosbrugger, V. (2007): Tree diversity in the Miocene forests of Western Eurasia. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 242-266.

Ivanov, D., Ashraf, A. R., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V. & Slavomirova, E. (2007): Late Miocene vegetation and climate of the Balkan region: palynology of the Beli Breg Coal Basin sediments. – Geologica Carpathica 58: 367-381.

 

Bruch, A. A., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V., Gabrielyan, I. & Ivanov, D. A. (2006): Late Miocene terrestrial climate in the circum-Alpine realm – a quantitative paleobotanical analyses. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 238: 270-280.

 

Mosbrugger, V., Utescher, T. & Dilcher, D. (2005): Cenozoic continental climatic evolution of Central Europe. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (42): 14964-14969.

Poole, I., Cantrill, D.  Utescher, T. (2005): A multi-proxy approach to determine Antarctic terrestrial palaeoclimate during the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 222: 95-121.

Schäfer, A., Utescher, T., Valdivia-Manchego, M., Klett, M., Eichhorst, F. & von der Hocht, F. (2005): The Cenozoic Lower Rhine Basin – rifting, sediment input, and cyclic stratigraphy. – Geologische Rundschau 94: 621-639.

 

Bruch, A. A., Utescher, T., Alcalde Olivares C., Dolakova, N. & Mosbrugger, V. (2004): Middle and Late Miocene spatial temperature patterns and gradients in Central Europe – preliminary results based on palaeobotanical climate reconstructions. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 249: 15-27.

Roth-Nebelsick, A., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V., Diester-Haass, L. & Walther, H. (2004): Changes in atmosperic CO2 concentrations and climate from the Late Eocene to Early Miocene: palaeobotanical reconstruction based on fossil floras from Saxony, Germany. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 205: 43-67.

Schäfer, A., Utescher, T. & Mörs, T. (2004): Stratigraphy of the Cenozoic Lower Rhine Basin, northwestern Germany. – Newsletters on Stratigraphy 40 (1/2): 73-110.

 

Uhl, D., Mosbrugger, V., Bruch, A. & Utescher, T. (2003): Reconstructing palaeotemperatures using leaf floras – case studies for a comparison of leaf margin analysis and the coexistence approach. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 126 (1/2): 49-64.

 

Agusti, J., Andrews, P., Armour-Chelu, M., Begun, D. R., Cameron, D. W., Damuth, J., Daxner-Höck, G., De Bonis, L., Fejfar, O., Fessaha, N., Fortelius, M., Franzen, J., Gasparik, M., Gentry, A., Heissig, K., Hernyak, G., Kaiser, T., Koufos, G. D., Krolopp, E., Janossy, D., Llenas, M., Meszaros, L., Müller, P., Renne, P., Rocek, Z., Sen, S., Scott, R., Szyndlar, Z., Topál, G., Ungar, P. S., Utescher, T., Van Dam, J. A., Werdelin, L. & Ziegler, R. (2002): Recent advances on multidisciplinary research at Rudabánya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: a compendium. – Palaeontographica Italica 89: 3-36.

Figueiral, I., Mosbrugger V., Rowe, N., Utescher, T., Jones, T. & Von Der Hocht, F. (2002): Role of Charcoal Analysis for Interpreting Vegetation Change and Paleoclimate in the Miocene Rhine Embayment (Germany). – Palaios 17: 347-365.

Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V. & Ashraf, A. R. (2002): Facies and paleogeography of the Tertiary of the Lower Rhine Basin – sedimentary versus climatic control. – Netherlands Journal of Earth Sciences 81: 185-191.

 

Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V. & Ashraf, A. R. (2000): Terrestrial climate evolution in Northwest Germany over the last 25 million years. – Palaios 15: 430-449.

 

Gebka, M., Mosbrugger, V., Schilling, H.-D. & Utescher, T. (1999): Regional scale palaeoclimate modelling on soft proxy-data basis – an example from the Upper Miocene of the Lower Rhine Embayment. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 152: 225-258.

 

Klein, H., Utescher, T. & Langer, W. (1998): Zur Karbonatmikrofazies der unteren Eifel-Stufe/Mitteldevon am Ohlesberg bei Bad Münstereifel/Eifel. – Decheniana 151: 227-243.

Figueiral, I., Mosbrugger, V., Rowe, N. P., Ashraf, A. R., Utescher, T. & Jones, T. P. (1998): The Miocene peat-forming vegetation of northwestern Germany: an analysis of wood remains and comparison with previous palynological interpretations. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 104: 239-266.

 

Ashaf, A. R., Mosbrugger, V. & Utescher, T. (1997): Palynological studies in the Neogene of the open-pit mines Inden and Bergheim (Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany). – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 201: 29-46.

Utescher, T., Gebka, M., Mosbrugger, V., Schilling, H.-D. & Ashraf, A. R. (1997): Regional palaeontological-meteorological palaeoclimate reconstruction of the Neogene Lower Rhine Embayment. – Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen 58: 263-271.

Schäfer, A., Utescher, T. & von der Hocht, F. (1997): Klastische Sedimentsysteme im Tertiär der Niederrheinischen Bucht. – In: Ricken, W. (Hg.): ­2. Sedimentologentreffen. Exkursionsführer. 21.-24. Mai 1997 am Geologischen Institut der Universität zu Köln. – Terra Nostra 1997 (3): 68-113.

Mosbrugger, V. & Utescher, T. (1997): The coexistence approach – a method for quantitative reconstructions of Tertiary terrestrial palaeoclimate data using plant fossils. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 134: 61-86.

Jones, T. P., Fortier, S. M., Mosbrugger, V., Roessler, J., Utescher, T. & Ashraf, A. R. (1997): 13C/12C ratio double cyclicity in a Miocene browncoal: isotopic signals and orbital forcing. – Terra Nova 9: 19-23.

Huhn, B., Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R. & Mosbrugger, V. (1997): The peat-forming vegetation in the Middle Miocene Lower Rhine Embayment, an analysis based on palynological data. – Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen 58: 211-218.

Ashraf, A. R., Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (1997): Tertiary palynostratigraphy? how reproducible are the results? – Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen 58: 163-170.

 

Mosbrugger, V., Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R., Schilling, H.-D. & Gebka, M. (1993): Rekonstruktion der obermiozänen Klimaverhältnisse (10-5 Mio a v. h.) im Bereich der Niederrheinischen Bucht. – In: NEUGEBAUER, H. J. (Hg.): Kontinentale Stoffkreisläufe und ihre Modellierung. Sonderforschungsbereich der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 350. – 15-17; Bonn.

 

Utescher, T. (1992): Sedimentologische Untersuchungen Fe-Oolith-führender Karbonate (Heisdorf-Erze) an der Unter-Mitteldevon-Grenze im Westlichen Rheinischen Schiefergebirge. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 5: 303-320.

Utescher, T. (1992): Mikrofazielle Untersuchungen im Unter-Mitteldevon-Grenzbereich des Westlichen Rheinischen Schiefergebirges. – Decheniana 145: 204-301.

 

Ashraf, A. R. & Utescher, T. (1991): Sporen-Assoziationen aus dem Oberems der mittleren Eifel (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). – Palaeontographica, Abteilung B 221: 153-170.