Section

Messel Research

The primary objective of the division is the investigation and reconstruction of the Eocene Lake Messel and its surroundings by divisional employees and volunteers by way of:

1. taxonomic-morphological examinations of the constantly expanding collection of vertebrate fossils
2. research projects on phylogenesis, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, paleoenvironment, and paleobiogeography
3. the development of models of the history of the lake area and the structural genesis of the isolated geological pit-like formations, as well as of the lake sediments (the Messel Formation).

These objectives will also be implemented in the middle and long-term through collaborative projects with national and international colleagues. The Division of Messel Research was created in 1992 as part of the Senckenberg Research Institute.
The scientific work is attributed to the Senckenberg research areas Biodiversity and Systematics and Biodiversity and Earth System Dynamics.

Section Messel Research

Über den Tod hinaus – Entdeckung und Präparation eines Fossils aus der Grube Messel

Beyond death

Publications

From 2024 to 2010, 2024

Bartel, C., Dunlop, J. A. & Wedmann, S. (2024). Iridescent harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae) from the Eocene of Messel, Germany. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104(4) 963-975. doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00607-4

Bouchal, J. M., Geier, C., Ulrich, S., Uhl, D., Wedmann, S. et al. (2024). Fossil Coleoptera with in situ and adhered pollen from the Eocene of Eckfeld, Germany. EGU General Assembly 2024.

Boudet, L., Bouché, C., Nel, A. & Ngô-Muller, V. (2024). A new Middle Eocene Baltic amber Exechiini (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) supports the likely rapid radiation of the tribe. Historical Biology 1-5.

Domínguez-García, A. C., López-García, J. M., Núñez-Lahuerta, C., Galán, J. & Cuenca-Bescós, G. (2024). Palaeoclimatic analysis of Quaternary terrestrial small mammal assemblages from the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 655.

Duprey, N. N., A. D. Foreman, J. D. Carriquiry, C. D. Charles, S. C. Sanchez, H. Vonhof, F. Rubach, R. Rabenstein, M. Rohr, H. Reyes-Bonilla, D. Marconi, D. M. Sigman, G. H. Haug & A. Martínez-García (2024). Decadal oscillations in the ocean’s largest oxygen-deficient zone. Science 386(6725): 1019-1024. doi:10.1126/science.adk4965

Galán, J., López-García, J. M., Cuenca-Bescós, G. & Sevilla, P. (2024). The Quaternary record of fossil bats in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands: Palaeobiogeographical changes and palaeoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 646.

Geier, C., J. M. Bouchal, S. Ulrich, D. Uhl, T. Wappler, S. Wedmann, R. Zetter, J. Schönenberger & F. Grímsson (2024). Potential pollinators and paleoecological aspects of Eocene Ludwigia (Onagraceae) from Eckfeld, Germany. Palaeoworld 33(4): 1079-1104. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2023.07.003

Geier, C., J. M. Bouchal, S. Ulrich, R. Zetter, J. Schönenberger, D. Uhl, S. Wedmann, T. Wappler & F. Grimsson (2024). O-234 – Matching Messel flowers with their insect visitors via pollen. XV. International Palynological Congress & XI. International Organization of Palaeobotany Conference: Abstract Book, Czech-In, Prague, Czech Republic: 124-125.Geier, C., Engel, M. S., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F. et al. (2024). The earliest large carpenter bee (Xylocopa) and its adhering pollen (Araliaceae, Theaceae). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104(4) 949-962. doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00604-7

Georgalis, G. L., Smith, K. T., Marivaux, L., Essid, E. M., Ammar, H. K. et al. (2024). The world’s largest worm lizard: a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia) with extreme dental adaptations from the Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Grimsson, F., Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Schönenberger, J. et al. (2024). O-238 – Flowers and insects with in situ and/or adhered pollen from Eckfeld (Eocene) and Enspel (Oligocene), Germany Paper presented at the XV. International Palynological Congress & XI. International Organization of Palaeobotany Conference: Abstract Book., Czech-In, Prague, Czech Republic.

Gutarra, S., Mitchell, E. G., Dunn, F. S., Gibson, B. M., Racicot, R. A. et al. (2024). Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans. Current Biology 34(11) 2528-2534.e2523.

Kaboth-Bahr, S., C. Schmitt, T. Bauersachs, C. Zeeden, T. Wonik, J. Schandl, O. Lenz, S. Wedmann, I. Vasiliev, A. Mulch, L. Lourens, J. Pross & A. Bahr (2024). Improved chronostratigraphy for the Messel Formation (Hesse, Germany) provides insight into early to middle Eocene climate variability. Newsletters of Stratigraphy 57(2): 153-170. doi:10.1127/nos/2024/0799

Kasalo, N., Skejo, J., Tumbrinck, J., Wedmann, S. & Husemann, M. (2024). Two new fossil Tetrigidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Grube Messel (Germany). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104(4) 941-947. doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00634-1

Makarkin, V. N. & Wedmann, S. (2024). A new species of Hemerobiidae (Neuroptera) from the late Eocene Rovno amber. Zootaxa 5538(6) 559-600.

Muftah, A. M. & Al Riaydh, M. H. (2024). The achievements of Abdel Wahid Gaziry (1941-1989) in the field of vertebrate palaeontology. Natural History Sciences NHS 11(2).

Nel, A. & Wedmann, S. (2024). The first mydid fly (Diptera: Mydidae) from the Paleocene maar of Menat (France). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104(4) 849-857. doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00613-6

Rabenstein, R., Heidrich, U. & Wieduwilt, H. (2024). Gartenschläfer und Höhlenbrüter – Beobachtungen im Stadtwald Frankfurt (Schwanheim). In HESSISCHES LANDESAMT FÜR NATURSCHUTZ, U. U. G. (Ed.).

Racicot, R., Mourlam, M. J., Ekdale, E. G., Glass, A., Marino, L. et al. (2024). Variation in whale (Cetacea) inner ear anatomy reveals the early evolution of “specialized” high-frequency hearing sensitivity. Journal of Anatomy.

Racicot, R. & Smith, C. (2024). Cetology: The bare ‘jaw’ bones of whale evolution. Current Biology 34(2) R67-R69.

Sanchez-Posada, C., Racicot, R. A., Ruf, I., Krings, M. & Rössner, G. E. (2024). Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki, gen. nov. et sp. nov., an archaic dolphin from the Central Paratethys (Early Miocene, Austria). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Sanks, J. & Racicot, R. (2024). Predicting ecology and hearing sensitivities in Parapontoporia – An extinct long-snouted dolphin. Anatomical Record – Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology.

Smith, K. T., Collinson, M. E., Folie, A., Habersetzer, J., Hennicke, F. et al. (2024). The biodiverstiy of the Eocene Messel Pit. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104(4) 859–940. doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00633-2

Smith, K. T., Rabenstein, R. & O’keefe, J. (2024). Was Palaeolake Messel a death-trap? Insight from modern bat drownings and decay experiments. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104(4) 977-997. doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00631-4

Uhl, D., M. Wuttke, M. Aiglstorfer, C. T. Gee, F. Grandi, O. Höltke, T. M. Kaiser, U. Kaulfuss, D. Lee, T. Lehmann, O. Oms, M. J. Poschmann, M. W. Rasser, T. Schindler, K. T. Smith, P. Suhr, T. Wappler & S. Wedmann (2024). Deep-time maar lakes and other volcanogenic lakes as Fossil-Lagerstätten – An overview.“ Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104(4): 763-848. doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00635-0

Uhl, D., Wuttke, M., Smith, K. T., Wedmann, S. & Lehmann, T. (2024). Pre-Quaternary maar lakes/volcanogenic lakes as Konservat Lagerstätten—Messel and beyond. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104(4) 753-761. doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00636-z

Wedmann, S. (2024). Fossile Insekten aus der Grube Messel – Kleine Juwelen im Ölschiefer. Biologie – In unserer Zeit, 54(2), 138-142.

Wedmann, S., Bouchal, J. M., Boudet, L., Engel, M. S., Geier, C. et al. (2024). Paleodiversity of Paleogene Hymenopteran Insects and their interactions with flowers. Paper presented at the PalGes2024, Warsaw.

From 2024 to 2010, 2022

Abels, J. & Wedmann, S. (2022). A fossil wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespula? hassiaca) from the Eocene of Messel. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 323(1–3) 105–117. doi:10.1127/pala/2021/0122

Bao, T., Wedmann, S., Grímsson, F., Beutel, R. G., Seyfullah, L. et al. (2022). Was the kateretid beetle Pelretes really a Cretaceous angiosperm pollinator? 8, . Nature Plants 8 38-40. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-01044-

Brochu, C. A., De Celis, A., Adams, A. J., Drumheller, S. K., Nestler, J. H. et al. (2022). Giant dwarf crocodiles from the Miocene of Kenya and crocodylid faunal dynamics in the late Cenozoic of East Africa. The Anatomical Record 305(10) 2729-2765. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25005

Chuliver, M., Scanferla, A. & Smith, K. T. (2022). Live birth in a 47‑million‑year‑old snake. The Science of Nature 109(56) 1-5. doi:10.1007/s00114-022-01828-3

De Mazancourt, V., Wappler, T. & Wedmann, S. (2022). Exceptional preservation of internal organs in a new fossil species of freshwater shrimp (Caridea: Palaemonoidea) from the Eocene of Messel (Germany). Scientific reports 12(18114) 1-12. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-23125-9

Šmídová, L., Vidlička, L. & Wedmann, S. (2022). Appearance of the family Blaberidae (Insecta: Blattaria) during the Cretaceous and a review of fossils of this family Palaeontographica Abteilung A 321(1–6) 71–79. doi:10.1127/pala/2021/0109

Smith, K. T., Bhullar, B.-a. S. & Bloch, J. I. (2022). New diminutive Eocene lizard reveals high K-Pg survivorship and taxonomic diversity of stem xenosaurs in North America. American Museum Novitates 3986 1-36. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2246/7293

Smith, K. T. & Georgalis, G. L. (2022). The diversity and distribution of Paleogene snakes – A review with Commons on Vertebral sufficiency. In GOWER, D. J. & ZAHER, H. (Eds.), The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes (pp. 55-84): Cambrige University Press.

Smith, K. T. & Scanferla, A. (2022). More than one large constrictor snake lurked around paleolake Messel. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 323(1-3) 75-103. doi:10.1127/pala/2021/0119

Wagner, F., Ruf, I., Lehmann, T., Hofmann, R., Ortmann, S. et al. (2022). Reconstruction of evolutionary changes in fat and toxin consumption reveals associations with gene losses in mammals: A case study for the lipase inhibitor PNLIPRP1 and the xenobiotic receptor NR1I3. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35(2) 225-239. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13970

Weidtke, J., Schultz, J. A., Lang, A., Lehmann, T., Morlo, M. et al. (2022). Functional analysis of the dentition of Lesmesodon (Mammalia, Hyaenodonta). Paper presented at the 18th International Symposium on Dental Morphology 3rd Congress of the International Association of Paleodontology, Frankfurt.

From 2024 to 2010, 2021

Abels, J. & Wedmann, S. (2021). Data for geometric morphometric analyses of the wing venation of wasps (Vespinae, Vespidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta). PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.937651

Abels, J. & Wedmann, S. (2021). List of specimens for geometric morphometric analyses of the wing venation of wasps (Vespinae, Vespidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta). PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.937635

Bao, T., Wedmann, S., Grímsson, F., Beutel, R. G., Seyfullah, L. et al. (2021). Was the kateretid beetle Pelretes really a Cretaceous angiosperm pollinator? Nature Plants 8 38–40. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-01044-3

Berlioz, E., Cornette, R., Lenoir, N., Santin, M. D. & Lehmann, T. (2021). Exploring the ontogenetic development of the inner ear in Aardvarks. Journal of Anatomy 238(5) 1128-1142. doi:10.1111/joa.13361

Cracknell, K., García-Bellido, D. C., Gehling, J. G., Ankor, M. J., Darroch, S. et al. (2021). Pentaradial eukaryote suggests expansion of suspension feeding in White Sea-aged Ediacaran communities Scientific reports 11. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-83452-1

Darroch, S., Cribb, A. T., Buatois, L. A., Germs, G., Kenchington, C. G. et al. (2021). The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion. Earth-Science Reviews 212 103435. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103435

Darroch, S., Fraser, D. & Casey, M. (2021). The preservation potential of terrestrial biogeographic patterns. Proceedings B 288. doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2927

Faurby, S., Morlo, M. & Werdelin, L. (2021). CarniFOSS: A database of the body mass of fossil carnivores. Gkobal Eocology and Biogeography 30 1958-1964. doi:10.1111/geb.13369

Georgalis, G. L., Rabi, M. & Smith, K. T. (2021). Taxonomic revision of the snakes of the genera Palaeopython and Paleryx (Serpentes, Constrictores) from the Paleogene of Europe. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140(18) 1-140. doi:10.1186/s13358-021-00224-0

Grímsson, F., Ulrich, S., Zetter, R., Hörnschemeyer, T., Engel, M. S. et al. (2021). How to extract and analyze pollen from internal organs and exoskeletons of fossil insects? . STAR Protocols 2(4) 100923. doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100923

Hofmann, R., Lehmann, T., Warren, D. L. & Ruf, I. (2021). The squirrel is in the detail: Anatomy and morphometry of the tail in Sciuromorpha (Rodentia, Mammalia). Journal of Morphology 282(11) 1659-1682. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21412

Michel, L. A., Peppe, D. J., Deino, A. L., Cheng, K., Summers, H. et al. (2021). Stratigraphic revision of the early miocene deposits on rusinga island and its effect on interpretaions of paleoclimate and evolution. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 53(6). doi:10.1130/abs/2016AM-286613

Morlo, M., Friscia, A., Miller, E. R., Locke, E. & Nengo, I. (2021). Systematics and paleobiology of Carnivora and Hyaenodonta from the lower Miocene of Buluk, Kenya. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66(2) 465-484. doi:10.4202/app.00794.2020

Morlo, M., Hohenegger, J. & Nagel, D. (2021). A new quantitative approach for guild analyses reveals the evolution of the carnivoran (Mammalia) guild at the Upper Miocene Proto-Rhine (Germany). Historical Biology. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1970153

Morlo, M., Le Maitre, A., Bastl, K., Engel, T., Lutz , H. et al. (2021). First record of the mustelid Trochictis (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the early Late Miocene (MN 9/10) of Germany and a reappraisal of the genus Trochictis. Historical Biology 33(8) 1183-1195.

Skartveit, J. & Wedmann, S. (2021). A revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Oligocene of Germany. Zootaxa 4909(1) 1-77. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4909.1.1

Smith, K. T. (2021). Paleontology: It´s a bird, it´s a plane, it´s Oculudentavis! Current Biology 31 R948-R971. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.017

Smith, K. T., Comay, O., Maul, L. C., Wegmüller, F., Le Tensorer, J.-M. et al. (2021). A model of digestive tooth corrosion in lizards: experimental tests and taphonomic implications. Nature 11(12877). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-92326-5

Smith, K. T. & Habersetzer, J. (2021). The anatomy, phylogenetic relationships, and autecology of the carnivorous lizard “Saniwa” feisti Stritzke, 1983 from the Eocene of Messel, Germany. Comptes Rendus Palevol 20(23) 441-506. doi:10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a23

Smith, K. T. & Scanferla, A. (2021). A nearly complete skeleton of the oldest definitive erycine boid (Messel, Germany). Geodiversitas 43(1). doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a1

Solé, F., Morlo, M., Schaal, T. & Lehmann, T. (2021). New hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the late Ypresian locality of Prémontré (France) support a radiation of the hyaenodonts in Europe already at the end of the early Eocene Geobios 66-67 119-141.

Stefen, C., Wagner, F., Asztalos, M., Giere, P., Grobe, P. et al. (2021). Phenotyping in the era of genomics: MaTrics – a digital character matrix to document mammalian phenotypic traits coded numerically. bioRxiv 2021.2001.2017.426960. doi:10.1101/2021.01.17.426960

Wedmann, S., Hörnschemeyer, T., Engel, M. S., Zetter, R. & Grímsson, F. (2021). Final meal of a fossil fly – evidence of pollen consumption and inference of present-day biology. Paper presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft Wien.

Wedmann, S., Hörnschemeyer, T., Engel, M. S., Zetter, R. & Grímsson, F. (2021). The last meal of an Eocene pollen-feeding fly. Current Biology 31. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.025, free access until April 29, 2021 via this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cj2a3QW8RwnPJ

Wedmann, S., Kment, P., Campos, L. A. & Hörnschemeyer, T. (2021). Bizarre morphology in extinct Eocene bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Royal Society open science. doi:/10.1098/rsos.211466

Populärwissenschaftliche Artikel

Smith, K. T. (2021). The Messel Pit: Window into a Greenhouse World. Geoconservation Research 4(2) 1-10. doi:10.30486/GCR.2021.1926272.1087

Wedmann, S., Schaal, S. & Lehmann, T. (2021). Online-Messel-Arbeitstreffen, 22.März 2021. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 84: 105-106.

From 2024 to 2010, 2020

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

Baranov, V.A., Wang, Y., Gašparič, R., Wedmann, S. & Haug, J.T. (2020). Eco-morphological diversity of larvae of soldier flies and their closest relatives in deep time. PeerJ 8:e10356. doi:10.7717/peerj.10356

Čerňanský, A., Herrel, A., Kibii, J. M., Anderson, C. V., Boistel, R. & Lehmann, T. (2020). The only complete articulated early Miocene chameleon skull (Rusinga Island, Kenya) suggests an African origin for Madagascar’s endemic chameleons. Scientific reports, 10(109). doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-57014-5

Georgalis, G. L. & Smith, K. T. (2020). Constrictores Oppel, 1811 – the available name for the taxonomic group uniting boas and pythons. Vertebrate Zoology, 70(3), 291-304. doi: 10.26049/VZ70-3-2020-03

Michel, L. A., Lehmann, T., McNulty, K. P., Driese, S. G., Dunsworth, H. M., Fox, D. L., Harcourt-Smith, W. E. H., Jenkins, K., Peppe, D. J. (2020). Sedimentological and paleoenvironmental study from Waregi Hill in the Hiwegi Formation (early Miocene) on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Sedimentology

Morlo, M., Bastl, K., Habersetzer, J., Engel, T., Lischewsky, B., Lutz, H., . . . Nagel, D. (2020). The apex of amphicyonid hypercarnivory: solving the riddle of Agnotherium antiquum Kaup, 1833 (Mammalia, Carnivora). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39(5). doi: 10.1080/02724634.2019.1705848

Morlo, M., Nagel, D. & Bastl, K. (2020). Evolution of the carnivoran (Carnivora, Mammalia) guild structure across the Middle/Upper Miocene boundary in Germany. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 553. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109801

Palci, A., Hutchinson, M. N., Caldwell, M. W., Smith, K. T. & Lee, M. S. Y. (2020). The homologies and evolutionary reduction of the pelvis and hind limbs in snakes, with the first report of ossified pelvic vestiges in an anomalepidid (Liotyphlops beui). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 188(2), 630-652. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz098

Scanferla, A. & Smith, K. T. (2020). Additional anatomical information on the Eocene minute boas Messelophis variatus and Rieppelophis ermannorum (Messel Formation, Germany). Vertebrate Zoology, 70(4), 615-620. doi: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-06

Scanferla, A. & Smith, K. T. (2020). Exquisitely preserved fossil snakes of Messel: Insight into the Evolution, Biogeography, Habitat preferences and Sensory ecology of early Boas. Diversity, 12(100). doi: 10.3390/d12030100

Weyer, N., Taylor, A. & Lehmann, T. (2020). Demystifying aardvark tracks, how (not) to determine aardvark sex. Afrotherian Conservation, 16.

Zaher, H. & Smith, K.T. (2020). Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas. Biology Letters 16: 20200735. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0735

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Lehmann, T., Storch, A., Helfricht, A., Krohmann, K., Horáček, I., Ruf, I. & Maul, L. C. (2020). Gerhard Storch – a legend in mammal research (II). Fossil Imprint, 76(1), iii-v. doi: 10.37520/fi.2020.001

Schaal, S. F. K. (2020). 25 Jahre UNESCO-Welterbe Messel Pit Fossil Site. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum, 150(10-12), 168-174.

Smith, K.T. (2020). Rageryx schmidi. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum, 150 (10-12), 175-177.

From 2024 to 2010, 2019

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

Čerňanský, A. & Smith, K. T. (2019). The first juvenile specimen of Eolacerta (Squamata: Eolacertidae) from the early-middle Eocene of the Messel Pit (Germany). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 18(7), 735-745. doi: 10.1016/j.crpv.2019.04.004

Engels, S. & Schultz, J. A. (2019). Evolution of the power stroke in early Equoidea (Perissodactyla, Mammalia). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 99, 271-291. doi: 10.1007/s12549-018-0341-4

Garrett, N., Fox, D. L., Peppe, D. J., Michel, L. A., Lehmann, T. & McNulty, K. P. (2019 (submitted)). Stable Isotope Ecology of the Early Miocene Rusinga Island Mammalian Communities from the Kulu and Hiwegi Formations. Journal of Human Evolution.

Krzemiński, W., Blagoderov, V., Azar, D., Lukashevich, E., Szadziewski, R., Wedmann, S., . . . Nicholson, D. B. (2019). True flies (Insecta: Diptera) from the late Eocene insect limestone (Bembridge Marls) of the Isle of Wight, England, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 110(3-4), 495-554. doi: 10.1017/S1755691018000464

Morlo, M., Engel, T., Bastl, K., Lischewsky, B., Lutz, H., von Berg, A. & Nagel, D. (2019). Hyaenidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene (MN 9/10) Dinotheriensande. Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv, 56, 113-126.

Morlo, M., Le Maitre, A., Bastl, K., Engel, T., Lutz, H., Lischewsky, B., . . . Nagel, D. (2019). First record of the mustelid Trochictis (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the early Late Miocene (MN 9/10) of Germany and a reappraisal of the genus Trochictis. Historical Biology. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2019.1683172

Morlo, M., Miller, E. R., Bastl, K., Abdel Gawad, M., Hamdan, M., El-Barkooky, A. N. & Nagel, D. (2019). New Amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Moghra, Early Miocene, Egypt. Geodiversitas, 41, 731-745.

Smith, K. T., Schwermann, A. & Wilmsen, M. (2019). The oldest articulated mosasaurian remains (earliest Turonian) from Germany. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen, 91, 3-23.

Taylor, A., Lehmann, T. & Weyer, N. (2019). A roadmap for future aardvark research. Afrotherian Conservation, 15, 25-10.

Vianey-Liaud, M., Marivaux, L. & Lehmann, T. (2019). A reevaluation of the taxonomic status of the rodent Masillamys Tobien, 1954 from Messel (Germany, late early to early middle Eocene, 48–47 m.y.). Fossil Imprint, 75(3-4), 454-483.

Wedmann, S. & Skartveit, J. (2019). First record of March flies (Insecta: Diptera: Bibionidae) from the Miocene Gračanica mine (Bugojno, Bosnia-Herzegovina). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. doi: 10.1007/s12549-018-00369-w

Wehner, R., Rabenstein, R. & Habersetzer, J. (2019). Long-leggedness in cataglyphoid Baltic amber ants. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 100(1), 79-93. doi: 10.1007/s12549-019-00372-9

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Franzen, J. L. (2019). Die Evolution der Pferde – Wie kommen die Pferde dazu, auf nur einer Zehenspitze zu laufen. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum, 149(1-3), 26-29.

Horáček, I., Lehmann, T., Ruf, I. & Maul, L. C. (2019). Gerhard Storch – a legend in mammal research. Fossil Imprint, 75(3-4), v-xxi.

Kullmer, O. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2019). In Memoriam Jens Lorenz Franzen. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum, 149(01-03), 42.

Rabenstein, R. & Habersetzer, J. (2019). Fledermäuse, Ameisenbär und Urpferd – Mit Röntgenstrahlen in eine Lebenswelt vor 50 Millionen Jahren. In U. Busch & W. Rosendahl (Eds.), Die Welt im Durchblick – Wunder moderner Röntgentechnik (pp. 116-124): wbg Theiss.

Ruf, I., Colonius, T., Preussner, L. M., Prinzen, R. C., Schaal, T. N., Zoppe, S. F. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2019). Yixian Summer School. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum, 149(06-09), 82-85.

Schaal, S. F. K. (2019). Forschung und Denkmalschutz im Welterbe Grube Messel. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum, 149(1-3), 33-34.

Smith, K. T. (2019). Eidechse mit vier Augen. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum, 149(1-3), 12-15.

Smith, K. T. & Schwermann, A. H. (2019). Die ältesten artikulierten Mosasaurier-Überreste aus Deutschland. Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe, 26-28.

Uhl, D. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2019). Umzug der geowissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Senckenberg Forschungsinstituts und Naturmuseums Frankfurt abgeschlossen – Umzug der Messelsammlung steht an. GMIT – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 79, 26-27.

Wedmann, S. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2019). Messel-Arbeitstreffen 2019. GMIT – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 76, 101-102.

From 2024 to 2010, 2018

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

BROCHU, C. & MILLER-CAMP, J. (2018). Crocodyliformes – Große Klappe, viel dahinter. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 159-168). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

BROCHU, C. & MILLER-CAMP, J. (2018). Crocodyliforms – Large-bodied Carnivores. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 159-168). Stuttgart E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

BÜCHEL, G. N. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (2018). Die Entstehung des Messel-Maares. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 7-16). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

BÜCHEL, G. N. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (2018). The Formation of the Messel Maar. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 7-16). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

CADENA, E., JOYCE, W. G. & SMITH, K. T. (2018). Schildkröten – gepanzerte Überlebenskünstler. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 149-158). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

CADENA, E., JOYCE, W. G. & SMITH, K. T. (2018). Turtles – Armored Survivalists. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 149-158). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

CERNANSKÝ, A. & SMITH, K. T. (2018). Eolacertidae: a new extinct clade of lizards from the Palaeogene; with comments on the origin of the dominant European reptile group – Lacertidae. Historical Biology, 30, 994-1014. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1327530

FRANZEN, J. L. (2018). Erstes Skelett von Propalaeotherium voigti (Perissodactyla, Equoidea) aus der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt. Kaupia, 22, 155-168.

FRANZEN, J. L. (2018). Odd-toed Ungulates – Early Horses and Tapiromorphs. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 293-302). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

FRANZEN, J. L. (2018). Unpaarhufer – Urpferde und Tapirartige. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 293-302). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

FRANZEN, J. L. & GINGERICH, P. D. (2018). Primaten – eine Seltenheit in Messel. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 241-248). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

FRANZEN, J. L. & GINGERICH, P. D. (2018). Primates – Rarities in Messel. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 241-248). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

GUNNELL, G. F., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I., HABERSETZER, J., MORLO, M. et al. (2018). Ferae – Animals that Eat Animals. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 271-284). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

GUNNELL, G. F., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I., HABERSETZER, J., MORLO, M. et al. (2018). Ferae – Tiere, die andere Tiere fressen. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 271-284). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

HABERSETZER, J., RABENSTEIN, R. & GUNNELL, G. F. (2018). Bats – Highly Specialized Nocturnal Hunters with Echolocation. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 249-262). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

HABERSETZER, J., RABENSTEIN, R. & GUNNELL, G. F. (2018). Fledermäuse – nächtliche Jäger mit Echoortung. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 249-262). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

KOENIGSWALD, W. V., GUNNELL, G. F., LEHMANN, T., ROSE, K. D. & RUF, I. (2018). Four Archaic Yet Highly Specialized Mammals. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 223-234). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

KOENIGSWALD, W. V., GUNNELL, G. F., LEHMANN, T., ROSE, K. D. & RUF, I. (2018). Vier ursprüngliche, aber hoch spezialisierte Säugetiere. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 223-234). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

KUNIN, W. E., HARTE, J., HE, F., HUI, C., JOBE, R. T. et al. (2018). Upscaling biodiversity: estimating the species-area relationship from small samples. Ecological Monographs.

KURZ, C. & KOENIGSWALD, W. V. (2018). Beuteltiere – eine Überraschung in Messel. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 217-222). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

KURZ, C. & KOENIGSWALD, W. V. (2018). Marsupials – a Surprise in Messel. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 217-222). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

LEHMANN, T. (2018). Mit oder ohne Stacheln – die Igel-Verwandten. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 235-240). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

LEHMANN, T. (2018). With and Without Spines: the Hedgehog Kindred from Messel. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 235-240). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

LEHMANN, T. & RUF, I. (2018). The Advent of Even-toed Hoofed Mammals. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 285-292). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

LEHMANN, T. & RUF, I. (2018). Das Aufkommen der Paarhufer. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 285-292). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

LENZ, O. K., WILDE, V. & RIEGEL, W. (2018). Paläoklima – aus der Vergangenheit für die Zukunft lernen. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 17-24). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

LENZ, O. K., WILDE, V. & RIEGEL, W. (2018). Paleoclimate – Learning from the Past for the Future. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 17-24). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

MAYR, G. (2018). Birds – the Most Species-rich Vertebrate Group in Messel. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 169-214). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

MAYR, G. (2018). Vögel – die artenreichste Wirbeltiergruppe im eozänen Messel-Ökosystem. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 169-214). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Mayr, G. (2018). New data on the anatomy and paleobiology of sandcoleid mousebirds (Aves, Coliiformes) from the early Eocene of Messel. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 4: 639-651.

MICKLICH, N. (2018). Actinopterygians – the Fishes of the Messel Lake. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 105-112). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

MICKLICH, N. (2018). Strahlenflosser – die Fische im Messel-See. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 105-112). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

RUF, I. & LEHMANN, T. (2018). Nagetiere: Erfolgsgeschichte mit Biss. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 263-270). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

RUF, I. & LEHMANN, T. (2018). Rodents – Gnawing Their Way to Success. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 263-270). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SCHAAL, S. F. K. (2018). Messel – bewegte Vergangenheit, spannende Zukunft. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SCHAAL, S. F. K. (2018). Messel – Eventful past, exciting future In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 1-6). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (2018). Amnioten: Säuger, Vögel und Reptilien. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 121). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.). (2018). Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (2018). Säugetiere – eine weitere Erfolgsgeschichte. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SMITH, K. T., ČERŇANSKÝ, A., SCANFERLA, C. A. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (2018). Echsen und Schlangen – Wärmeliebende Sonnenanbeter. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 123-148). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SMITH, K. T., ČERŇANSKÝ, A., SCANFERLA, C. A. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (2018). Lizards and Snakes – Warmth-loving Sunbathers. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 123-148). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SMITH, K. T., LEHMANN, T., MAYR, G., MICKLICH, N., RABENSTEIN, R. et al. (2018). Das Ökosystem Messel. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 303-314). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SMITH, K. T., LEHMANN, T., MAYR, G., MICKLICH, N., RABENSTEIN, R. et al. (2018). The Messel Ecosystem. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 303-314). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (2018). Amniotes: Mammals, Birds and Reptiles. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (2018). Mammalia – Another Success Story. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (2018). Messel – An Ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

SPASOJEVIC, T., WEDMANN, S. & KLOPFSTEIN, S. (2018). Seven remarkable new fossil species of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit. PLOS ONE, 13(6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197477

WEDMANN, S. (2018). Jewels in the Oil Shale – Insects and Other Invertebrates. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 63-104). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

WEDMANN, S. (2018). Juwelen im Ölschiefer – Insekten und andere Wirbellose. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 63-104). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Wedmann, S., Uhl, D., Lehmann, T., Garrouste, R., Nel, A. et al. (2018). The Konservat-Lagerstätte Menat (Paleocene; France) – an overview and new insights. Geologica Acta 16(2), 189-213. doi:10.1344/GeologicaActa2018.16.2.5

WEDMANN, S., HABERSETZER, J., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I., SCHAAL, S. F. K. et al. (2018). Messel Research – Methods and Terms. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 35-42). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

WEDMANN, S., HABERSETZER, J., LEHMANN, T., RUF, I., SCHAAL, S. F. K. et al. (2018). Messelforschung – Methoden und Begriffe. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 35-42). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

WILDE, V. (2018). Die fossile Flora von Messel. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 43-62). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

WILDE, V. (2018). The Fossil Flora of Messel. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 43-62). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

WUTTKE, M. (2018). Amphibians in Messel – in the Water and on Land. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 113-120). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

WUTTKE, M. (2018). Amphibien in Messel – zu Wasser und zu Lande. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 113-120). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

WUTTKE, M., RABENSTEIN, R. & VINTHER, J. (2018). Im Tod vereint: die Messeler Grabgemeinschaft. In: SCHAAL, S. F. K., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (pp. 25-34). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

WUTTKE, M., RABENSTEIN, R. & VINTHER, J. (2018). Joined in Death: the Burial Community of Messel. In: SMITH, K. T., SCHAAL, S. F. K. & HABERSETZER, J. (Eds.), Messel – An ancient Greenhouse Ecosystem (pp. 25-34). Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart‘sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Populärwissenschaftliche Artikel

UHL, D., KUNZMANN, L., HERTLER, C., KAHLKE, R.-D., KÖNIGSHOF, P. et al. (2018). Frankfurt/Dresden/Görlitz: Palaeontological collections of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. In Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (pp. 209-240): Springer Verlag.

From 2024 to 2010, 2017

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

CERNANSKÝ, A. & SMITH, K. T. (2017). Eolacertidae: a new extinct clade of lizards from the Palaeogene; with comments on the origin of the dominant European reptile group – Lacertidae. Historical Biology, 1-21. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1327530

CHENG, K., MICHEL, L. A., LEHMANN, T., MCNULTY, K. P., FOX, D. L. et al. (2017). Paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions from stratigraphic analysis and paleosol descriptions from the early Miocene, Kiahera Formation, Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 49. doi:10.1130/abs/2017AM-294637

FRANZEN, J. L. (2017). Report on the discovery of fossil mares with preserved uteroplacenta from the Eocene of Germany. Fossil Imprint, 73(1-2) 67-75.

FRANZEN, J. L. & HABERSETZER, J. (2017). Complete skeleton of Eurohippus messelensis (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equoidea) from the early middle Eocene of Grube Messel (Germany). . Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 97(4) 807-832. doi:10.1007/s12549-017-0280-5.

GARROUSTE, R., WEDMANN, S., POUILLON, J.-M. & NEL, A. (2017). The oldest ‘amphipterygid’damselfly of tropical affinities in the Paleocene of Menat (Zygoptera: Eucaloptera). Historical Biology, 29, 818-821.

GIERE, P., HILLER, M., ANSORGE, H., CHAVAKIS, T., FICKEL, J. et al. (2017). Forward Genomics in Mammals: identifying the Genomic Basis of phenotypic differences in placental mammals. Abstract book of BioSyst.EU Meeting in Gothenburg 2017.

HOFMANN, R., LEHMANN, T. & RUF, I. (2017). Patterns of tail reduction/loss among different locomotory types in Rodentia. Abstract book 91st Annual Meeting Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde (DGS).

JIMÉNEZ-HIDALGO, E., GUERRERO-ARENAS, R. & SMITH, K. T. (2017). Gregorymys veloxikua, the oldest pocket gopher (Rodentia: Geomyidae), and the early diversification of Geomyoidea. In: Journal of Mammalian Evolution.

KINYAJUI, R., PEPPE, D. J., MACLATCHY, L., KINGSTON, J., COTE, S. et al. (2017). Early Miocene vegetation across eastern Africa as reconstructed from phytolith data. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 49. doi:10.1130/abs/2017AM-294637

LÄCHELE, U., GIERE, P., ANSORGE, H., HAMPE, J., LEHMANN, T. et al. (2017). Forward Genomics in Mammals“: morphological traits during ontogeny. Online Abstracts BioSyst. EU Meeting in Gothenburg 2017.

LUKENS, W. E., LEHMANN, T., PEPPE, D. J., FOX, D. L., DRIESE, S. G. et al. (2017). The early miocene critical zone at Karungu, Western Kenya: An Equatorial, open habitat with few primate remains. Original Research, 5(87) 1-21.

MAKARKIN, V. N., HEADS, S. W. & WEDMANN, S. (2017). Taxonomic study of the Cretaceous lacewing family Babinskaiidae (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontoidea: Nymphidoidae), with description of new taxa. Cretaceous Research 78, 149-160.

Mayr, G. (2017). New species of Primozygodactylus from Messel and the ecomorphology and evolutionary significance of early Eocene zygodactylid birds (Aves, Zygodactylidae). Historical Biology 29:(7) 875-884. doi:10.1080/08912963.2016.1261135

Mayr, G. (2017). The early Eocene birds of the Messel fossil site: a 48 million-year-old bird community adds a temporal perspective to the evolution of tropical avifaunas. Biological Reviews 92: 1174-1188.

Mayr, G. (2017). A small, “wader-like” bird from the early Eocene of Messel (Germany). Annales de Paléontologie 103 (2) 141-147.

MICHEL, L. A., CHENG, K., LEHMANN, T., MCNULTY, K. P., DRIESE, S. G. et al. (2017). Paleoclimatic variability and the role of seasonality from the early Miocene deposits on Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 49. doi:10.1130/abs/2017AM-294637

MILLER, E. R., GUNNELL, G. F., SALLAM, H., HABERSETZER, J. & SEIFFERT, E. (2017). Towards resolving the morphology and taxonomy of Parapithecus fraasi (Parapithecidae, Anthropoidea) from the Fayum depression, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Suppl., 163A-164A.

PEPPE, D. J., DEINO, A. L., DRIESE, S. G., FOX, D. L., KINGSTON, J. et al. (2017). Early Miocene paleoclimate and paleoenvironments across East Africa. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 49.

PFAFF, C., NAGEL, D., GUNNELL, G. F., WEBER, G. W., KRIWET, J. et al. (2017). Palaeobiology of Hyaenodon exiguus (Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) based on morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth. Journal of Anatomy, 2, 282-289.

POKRANT, F., KINDLER, C., VAMBERGER, M., SMITH, K. T. & FRITZ, U. (2017). Grass snakes (Natrix natrix, N. astreptophora) mimicking cobras display a ‚fossil behavior‘. Vertebrate Zoology, 67(2) 261-269.

RICHTER, G., BASZIO, S. & WUTTKE, M. (2017). Discontinuities in the microfossil record of middle Eocene Lake Messel: clues for ecological changes in lake’s history? Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 97(2) 295-314.

SCHNEIDER, J. V., HABERSETZER, J., RABENSTEIN, R., WESENBERG, J., WESCHE, K. et al. (2017). Water supply and demand remain coordinated during breakdown of the global scaling relationship between leaf size and major vein density. New Phytologist, 214(1) 473-486.

SMITH, K. T. (2017). First crocodile-tailed lizard (Squamata: Pan-Shinisaurus) from the Paleogene of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 37, 1-7. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1313743

SMITH, K. T. (2017). The squamation of the stem-basilisk Geiseltaliellus maarius (Squamata: Iguanidae) from the Eocene of Messel, Germany. Salamandra, 53(4) 519-530.

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FRANZEN, J. L. (2017). The Messel Pit. In: FUENTES, C. (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. doi:10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0355

FRANZEN, J. L., SMITH, K. T. & HABERSETZER, J. (2017). Krokodil gegen Urpferd. Mit geradezu kriminalistischem Spürsinn versuchen Senckenberg-Forscher zu ergründen, wie ein fossiles Urpferd einst zu Tode kam. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum, 147(1/2), 34-43.

SCHAAL, S. F. K. (2017). The Messel Pit Fossil Site. In: FRASER, N. C. & SUES, H.-D. (Eds.), Terrestrial Conservation Lagerstätten (pp. 257-286). Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press.

SMITH, K. T. (2017). Schlange frisst Echse frisst Käfer. Senckenberg – Highlights #03.

WEDMANN, S. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (2017). Messel-Arbeitstreffen 2017. GMIT – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 68, 100.

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Driese, S. G., Peppe, D. J., Beverly, E. J., Dipietro, L. M., Arellano, L. N. et al. (2016). Paleosols and paleoenvironments of the early Miocene deposits near Karungu, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 443 (2016) 167–182.

Geraads, D., Lehmann, T., Peppe, D. J. & Mcnulty, K. P. (2016). New Rhinocerotidae from the Kisingiri localities (lower Miocene of Western Kenya). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1103247

Habersetzer, J., Gunnell, G. & Simmons, N. (2016). 2D-radiography and 3D-tomography studies of the cochlea in extant and extinct bats. In 17th International Bat Research Conference South Africa 2016 31st July – 5th August 2016| (pp. 68-69).

Mayr, G. (2016). Avian feet, crocodilian food and the diversity of larger birds in the early Eocene of Messel. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 1-9. doi:10.1007/s12549-016-0243-2

Mayr, G. (2016). The early Eocene birds of the Messel fossil site: a 48 million-year-old bird community adds a temporal perspective to the evolutionof tropical avifaunas. Biological Reviews(2016). doi:10.1111/brv.12274

Mayr, G. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2016). Gastric pellets with bird remains from the Early Eocene of Messel. PALAIOS 31:(9) 447-451. doi:10.2110/palo.2016.042

Pfaff, C., Nagel, D., Gunnell, G., Weber, G. W., Kriwet, J. et al. (2016). Palaeobiology of Hyaenodon exiguus (Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) based on morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth. Journal of Anatomy. doi:10.1111/joa.12545

Ruf, I., Volpato, V., Rose, K. D., Billet, G., Muizon De, C. et al. (2016). Digital reconstruction of the inner ear of Leptictidium auderiense (Leptictida, Mammalia) and North American leptictids reveals new insight into leptictidan locomotor agility. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 90:(1) 153-171. doi:10.1007/s12542-015-0276-2

Scanferla, A., Smith, K. T. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2016). Revision of the cranial anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the Eocene minute boas Messelophis variatus and Messelophis ermannorum (Serpentes, Booidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176:(1) 182-206. doi:10.1111/zoj.12300

Skartveit, J. & Wedmann, S. (2016). Fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Eocene of Grube Messel, Germany. Studia Dipterologica 22:(1) 77-83.

Smith, K. T. & Scanferla, A. (2016). Fossil snake preserving three trophic levels and evidence for an ontogenetic dietary shift. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. doi:10.1007/s12549-016-0244-1

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Cadena, E. & Smith, K. T. (2016). Vorstoss ins Mark. REM-Technologie macht 48 Millionen Jahre alte Knochenzellen und Blutgefäße sichtbar. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 146:(3/4) 78-85.

Franzen, J. L., Aurich, C. & Habersetzer, J. (2016). Das Pferd im Pferd. Urpferdfohlen erblickt nach 48 Millionen Jahren das Licht der Welt. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 146:(3/4) 94-101.

Lehmann, T. & Wenzel, T. (2016). Auf Fossiliensuche in Karungu. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 146:(7/8) 200-2015.

Smith, K. T. (2016). Fressen und gefressen werden. Das urzeitliche Ökosystem von Messel Kiel/ Hamburg: Wachholtz Verlag – Murmann Publishers.

Wedmann, S. & Schaal, S. (2016). Messel-Arbeitstreffen 2016. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 64: 103.

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Cadena, E. (2015). A global phylogeny of Pelomedusoides turtles with new material of Neochelys franzeni Schleich, 1993 (Testudines, Podocnemididae) from the middle Eocene, Messel Pit, of Germany. PeerJ 3. doi:10.7717/peerj.1221

Čerňanský, A. & Klembara, J. (2015). Messel – Pompeje dávnoveku. Svet prírody 12: 5-7.

Collearya, C., Dolocan, A., Gardner, J., Singh, S., Wuttke, M. et al. (2015). Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PNAS 112:(41) 12592–12597 und Suppl. 12591 und Suppl. 12592. doi:10.1073/pnas.1509831112

Crochet, J.-Y., Hautier, L. & Lehmann, T. (2015). A pangolin (Manidae, Pholidota, Mammalia) from the French Quercy phosphorites (Pech du Fraysse, Saint-Projet, Tarn-et-Garonne, late Oligocene, MP 28). Palaeovertebrata 39 (2)-e4.: doi: 10.18563/pv.18539.18562.e18564.

Franzen, J. L., Aurich, C. & Habersetzer, J. (2015). Description of a Well Preserved Fetus of the European Eocene Equoid Eurohippus messelensis. PLOS ONE 10(10), e0137985. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137985

Guest Editors, Wuttke, M., Schindler, T. & Smith, K. T. (2015). Special Issue: Four-dimensional virtopsy and the taphonomy of a mole from the Oligocene of Lake Enspel (Germany) (Vol. 95 (1)) Heidelberg: Springer.

Jiménez-Hidalgo, E., Smith, K. T., Guerrero-Arenas, R. & Alvarado-Ortega, J. (2015). The first Late Eocene continental faunal assemblage from tropical North America. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 57:(2015) 39-48. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2014.12.001

Maul, L. C., Bruch, A. A., Smith, K. T., Shenbrot, G., Barkai, R. et al. (2015). Palaeoecological and biostratigraphical implications of the microvertebrates of Qesem Cave in Israel. Quaternary International (2015) doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.032

Mayr, G. (2015). The middle Eocene European ‘‘ratite’’ Palaeotis (Aves, Palaeognathae) restudied once more. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89: 503-514. doi:10.1007/s12542-014-0248-y

Mayr, G. (2015). A new specimen of the Early Eocene Masillacolius brevidactylus and its implications for the evolution of feeding specializations in mousebirds (Coliiformes). Comptes Rendus Palevol 14 (2015) 363-370. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2015.05.007

Mayr, G. (2015). A reassessment of Eocene parrotlike fossils indicates a previously undetected radiation of zygodactyl stem group representatives of passerines (Passeriformes). Zoologica Scripta 44: 587-602. doi:10.1111/zsc.12128

Mayr, G. (2015). Skeletal morphology of the middle Eocene swift Scaniacypselus and the evolutionary history of true swifts (Apodidae). Journal of Ornithology 156: 441-450. doi:10.1007/s10336-014-1142-9

Mayr, G. (2015). Towards completion of the early Eocene aviary: A new bird group from the Messel oil shale (Aves, Eopachypterygidae, fam. nov.). Zootaxa 4013:(2) 252–264. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.2.6

Rose, K. D., Storch, G. & Krohmann, K. (2015). Small-mammal postcrania from the middle Paleocene of Walbeck, Germany. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89: 95-124. doi:10.1007/s12542-013-0211-3

Smith, K. T., Maul, L. C., Flemming, F., Barkai, R. & Gopher, A. (2015). The microvertebrates of Qesem Cave: A comparison of the two concentrations. Quaternary International(2015). doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.047

Smith, K. T. & Wuttke, M. (2015). Avian pellets from the late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany—ecological interactions in deep time. In WUTTKE, M., SCHINDLER, T. & SMITH, K. T. (Eds.), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (Vol. 95, pp. 103-113).

Solé, F., Amson, E., Borths, M., Vidalenc, D., Morlo, M. et al. (2015). A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia). PLOS ONE 10:(9). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135698

Wedmann, S. (2015). Eocene insects show innovative morphologies and high disparity. In (Vol. 4, pp. 55). Landsweiler-Reden: ZfB-Scriptum, Veröffentlichungen des Zentrums für Biodokumentation (ZfB).

Wuttke, M., Schindler, T. & Smith, K. T. (2015). The Fossil-Lagerstätte Enspel — a crater lake in a volcanic-influenced terrestrial environment of the Westerwald Basin (late Oligocene, Western Germany). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 95:(1) 1-4. doi:10.1007/s12549-014-0181-9

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Lehmann, T., Laechele, U. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2015). Première description du foetus fossilisé d’un artiodactyle terrestre de l’Eocène. Basel, Suisse.

Rabenstein, R., Schaal, S. & Frey, M.-L. (2015). Klangsteine an der Grube Messel – Steinklang für Besucher des Welterbes. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 60: 89-91.

Uhl, D., Wedmann, S., Lehmann, T., Hervet, S. & Schaal, S. (2015). A fresh look on the Paleocene maar lake of Menat in France. In ZENTRUM FÜR BIODOKUMENTATION (ZFB) (Ed.), ZfB-Scriptum – Veröffentlichungen des Zentrums für Biodokumentation (ZfB) (Vol. 4, pp. 53-54). Landsweiler-Reden.

Wedmann, S., Schaal, S. & Frey, M.-L. (2015). Messel-Arbeitstreffen 2015. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 62: 95-96.

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Franzen, J. L., Aurich, C. & Habersetzer, J. (2014). A Pregnant Mare with Fetus of Eurohippus messelensis (Mammalia, Perissodactlya, Equidae) from the Early Middle Eocene of Messel Pit (Germany) Berlin.

Habersetzer, J., Engels, S., Gunnell, G. F. & Simmons, N. B. (2014). Ecology and taxonomy of Messel bats Berlin.

Habersetzer, J., Engels, S., Smith, K. T. & Rabenstein, R. (2014). Improved nano-CT and mirco-CT methods for studying vertebrate fossils – special procedures for preserving sediments as archives of past climates. In RÖHLING, H.-G. & ZULAUF, G. (Eds.), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (Vol. 85, pp. 222). Stuttgart: Schweizerbart

Michel, L. A., Peppe, D. J., Lutz, J. A., Driese, S. G., Dunsworth, H. M. et al. (2014). Remnants of an ancient forest provide ecological context for Early Miocene fossil apes. Nature Communications 5: 3236. doi:10.1038/ncomms4236

Morlo, M., Bastl, K., Wenhao, W. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2014). The first species of Sinopa (Hyaenodontida, Mammalia) from outside of North America: Implications for the history of the genus in the Eocene of Asia and North America. Palaeontology 57:(1) 111-125. doi:10.1111/pala.12052

Pohlová, L., Schepsky, P., Lehmann, T., Hochkirch, A., Masopustová, R. et al. (2014). Defining Management Units for European Captive Aardvarks. Zoo Biology 33: 433-439. doi:10.1002/zoo.21164

Smith, K. T. & Lehmann, T. (2014). Part I: The Messel-Pit Fossil Site: A window into the Eocene World Frankfurt am Main, Halle (Saale): Senckenberg World of Biodiversity, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen.

Smith, K. T., Lehmann, T., Hellmund, M. & Hastings, A. K. (Eds.). (2014). Messel and Geiseltal: Highlights from the Cenozoic, “Excursion Guide”. Frankfurt am Main, Halle (Saale): Senckenberg World of Biodiversity, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen.

Wappler, T., Heiss, E. & Wedmann, S. (2014). New flatbug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae) records from the Middle Eocene Messel Maar, Germany. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. doi:10.1007/s12542-014-0237-1

Wedmann, S. (2014). Exkursion in die Fossillagerstätte Grube Messel. In RÖHLING, H.-G. (Ed.), Exkursionsführer und Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften EDGG (Vol. 252, pp. 17-21). Hannover.

Wedmann, S. (2014). Paleogene Diptera compression fossils as valuable information sourcefor evolutionary history. In DORCHIN, N., KOTRBA, M., MENGUAL, X. et al. (Eds.), 8th International Congress of Dipterology, Potsdam 2014 (pp. 396). Potsdam.

Wedmann, S., Pouillon, J.-M. & Nel, A. (2014). New Palaeogene horntail wasps (Hymenoptera, Siricidae) and a discussion of their fossil record. Zootaxa 3869:(1) 33-43. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3869.1.3

Wedmann, S., Wappler, T., Labandeira, C. C., Kment, P. & Smith, D. M. (2014). Lost innovations? Extinct bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera) from the Eocene of Green River (USA) and Messel (Germany). Mendoza, Argentinia.

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Bretz, D. & Rabenstein, R. (2014). Später Schwarmflug. Beobachtungen der Großen Kerbameise im Weltnaturerbe Grube Messel. Senckenberg – Natur, Forschung, Museum 144:(3/4) 80-83.

Habersetzer, J. & Rabenstein, R. (2014). Echoortung fossiler und rezenter Fledermäuse Frankfurt am Main.

Lehmann, T. & Lächele, U. (2014). Gehüpft oder gelaufen? Mit neuen Methoden forscht Senckenberg an einer alten Frage: Wie bewegte sich der Messel-Säuger Leptictidium? Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 144:(11/12) 372-375.

Lehmann, T. & Ruf, I. (2014). Lokomotion des Messel-Säugers Leptictidium. Alte Fragen – neue Methoden Frankfurt am Main.

Rabenstein, R. (2014). Paläontologie, Geologie, Biologie – Pädagogisches Gesamtkonzept des Projektes „Erlebnisgestaltung Weltnaturerbe Grube Messel“. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 85: 639-640.

Rabenstein, R. & Habersetzer, J. (2014). Tomografie knöcherner Mikrostrukturen für stark vergrößerte 3D-Ausdrucke Frankfurt am Main.

Schneider, J., Habersetzer, J., Wesenberg, J., Wesche, K. & Zizka, G. (2014). Herbarien als Klimaarchive. 2D- und 3D-Techniken zur Analyse der Blattnervaturen Frankfurt am Main.

Smith, K. T. & Habersetzer, J. (2014). Echsenforschung unter spezieller Berücksichtigung von Cryptolacerta Frankfurt am Main.

Smith, K. T., Wedmann, S. & Schaal, S. (2014). Management of the Messel Pit Fossil Site (Eocene, Germany) and the unknown diversity still buried in the rock Mendoza, Argentinia.

Wedmann, S. & Schaal, S. (2014). Messel-Arbeitstreffen 2014. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 56: Seite 66.

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Conrad, J. L., Jenkins, K., Lehmann, T., Manthi, F. K., Peppe, D. J. et al. (2013). New specimens of ‘Crocodylus’ pigotti (Crocodylidae) from Rusinga Island, Kenya, and generic reallocation of the species. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:(3) 629-646. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.743404

Cooper, L. N., Sears, K., Simmons, N., Gunnell, G. F. & Habersetzer, J. (2013). The Evolution of Skeletal Architecture in the Achievement of Powered Flight San Jose, Costa Rica.

Engels, S., Habersetzer, J., Gunnell, G. F. & Simmons, N. (2013). New Approaches to the Analysis of Eocene Bat Teeth: Identifying Hidden Diversity in the Messel Bat Fauna San Jose, Costa Rica.

Engels, S., Habersetzer, J., Kullmer, O. & Hurum, J. (2013). The Messel Adapids – 3D Reconstruction, Repositioning, and Functional Analysis of the Dentitions. In: Maxwell, E., Miller-Camp, J. & Anemone, R. (Eds.), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. Supplement online:, pp. 123). Los Angeles, CA, USA: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Franzen, J. L., Habersetzer, J., Schlosser-Sturm, E. & Franzen, E. L. (2013). Reply to Sauther and Cuozzo 2012. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 93: 383. doi:10.1007/s12549-013-0122-z

Habersetzer, J., Engels, S., Gunnell, G. F. & Simmons, N. (2013). Is Tanzanycteris Actually a Hipposiderid? San Jose, Costa Rica.

Habersetzer, J., Engels, S. & Smith, K. (2013). Diverse strategies for improving CT Scans of vertebrate fossils. In: Maxwell, E., Miller-Camp, J. & Anemone, R. (Eds.), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. Supplement online:, pp. 138). Los Angeles, CA, USA: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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) 23A, 21-19. Retrieved from palaeo-electronica.org/content/2013/513-qesem-bats

Mezger, J. E., Felder, M. & Harms, F.-J. (2013). Crystalline rocks in the maar deposits of Messel: key to understand the geometries of the Messel Fault Zone and diatreme and the post-eruptional development of the basin fill. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 164:(4) 639-662. doi:10.1127/1860-1804/2013/0034

Smith, K. T. & Gauthier, J. A. (2013). Early Eocene Lizards of the Wasatch Formation near Bitter Creek, Wyoming: Diversity and Paleoenvironment during an Interval of Global Warming. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 54:(2) 135-230.

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: 3326-3339. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.02.022

Smith, T., Russell, D., Habersetzer, J. & Gunnell, G. F. (2013). Diversity of Archaeonycterid Bats in the Early Eocene of Europe. In: Maxwell, E., Miller-Camp, J. & Anemone, R. (Eds.), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. Supplement online, pp. 215). Los Angeles, CA, USA: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Smith, T., Russell, D., Habersetzer, J., Simmons, N. & Gunnell, G. F. (2013). The Earliest Bats from Europe San Jose, Costa Rica.

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Franzen, J. L. (2013). Die Evolution der Pferde. In BECKER, P.-R. & BEICHLE, U. (Eds.), Pferde Geschichten. Vom Urpferd zum Sportpferd (Vol. 92, pp. 21-34). Oldenburg: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum.

Schaal, S. F. K. (2013). Fossilienfundstätte Messel – Puzzlesteine für die Geschichte der Erde und des Lebens Neumünster, Hamburg: Wachholtz Verlag.

Schaal, S. F. K. (2013). Nach 47 Mio. Jahren wachgeküsst. Die Grube Messel – ein einzigartiges Fenster ins Eozän. Labor & More 5: 64-68.

Schaal, S. F. K., Lehmann, T., Smith, K. T. & Wedmann, S. (2013). Geology of the site Menat 1 – Géologie du site Menat 1 (GPS: N46°06’18.0″, E2°54’47.4″) Frankfurt am Main.

Smith, K. T. & Wedmann, S. (2013). Unerforschte Vielfalt in der Grube Messel. Seit fast 40 Jahren werden Fossilien systematisch in Messel geborgen – und es ist kein Ende in Sicht. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 143:(7/8) 230-235.

Wedmann, S. (2013). Fossile Ameisen aus der Grube Messel. Fossil ants from the Messel pit Frankfurt a.M.: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.

Wedmann, S. & Schaal, S. (2013). Messel-Arbeitstreffen 2013. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 52: Seite 84.

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Augé, M. L. (2012). Amphisbaenians from the European Eocene: a biogeographical review. In: LEHMANN, T. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (Eds.), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (Vol. 92, pp. 425-443).

Čerňanský, A. & Augé, M. L. (2012). New light on the early evolution of the family Lacertidae (Reptilia, Squamata) Brno: Masarykova univerzita.

Dlussky, G. M. & Wedmann, S. (2012). The poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae: Amblyoponinae, Ectatomminae, Ponerinae) of Grube Messel, Germany: high biodiversity in the Eocene. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(4) 725-753. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.628341

Franzen, J. L., Habersetzer, J., Schlosser-Sturm, E. & Franzen, E. L. (2012). Palaeopathology and fate of Ida (Darwinius masillae, Primates, Mammalia). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92:(4) 567-572. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0102-8

Gaudant, J., Schaal, S. F. K. & Wei, S. (2012). A short account on the Eocene fish fauna from Huadian (Jilin Province, China). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92:(4) 417-423. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0094-4

Giannini, N. P., Gunnell, G. F., Habersetzer, J. & Simmons, N. B. (2012). Early evolution of body size in bats. In GUNNELL, G. F. & SIMMONS, N. B. (Eds.), Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology (pp. 530-555). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gingerich, P. D. (2012). Primates in the Eocene. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92:(4) 649-663 doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0093-5

Habersetzer, J., Schlosser-Sturm, E., Storch, G. & Sigé, B. (2012). Shoulder joint and inner ear of Tachypteron franzeni, an emballonurid bat from the Middle Eocene of Messel. In GUNNELL, G. F. & SIMMONS, N. B. (Eds.), Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology (pp. 67-104). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Joyce, W. G., Micklich, N., Schaal, S. F. K. & Scheyer, T. M. (2012). Caught in the act: the first record of copulating fossil vertebrates. Biology Letters 8:(5) 846-848 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0361

Koenigswald, W. V., Anders, U., Engels, S., Schultz, J. A. & Kullmer, O. (2012). Jaw movement in fossil mammals: analysis, description and visualization. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. doi:10.1007/s12542-012-0142-4

Koenigswald, W. V., Habersetzer, J. & Gingerich, P. D. (2012). Pedal distal phalanges of the Eocene adapoids Europolemur and Darwinius compared to phalanges of Notharctus and other primates. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92:(4) 539-565. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0096-2

Lebrun, R., Godinot, M., Couette, S., Tafforeau, P. & Zollikofer, C. (2012). The labyrinthine morphology of Pronycticebus gaudryi (Primates, Adapiformes). In LEHMANN, T. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (Eds.), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (Vol. 92, pp. 527-537).

Lehmann, T. & Schaal, S. (Eds.). (2012). Special Issue: Messel and the terrestrial Eocene – Proceedings of the 22nd Senckenberg Conference (Vol. 92 (4)). Frankfurt an Main und Berlin, Heidelberg: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung und Springer-Verlag

Lehmann, T. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2012). “Messel and the terrestrial Eocene” – Proceedings of the 22nd Senckenberg Conference. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92: 397–402. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0107-3

Micklich, N. (2012). Peculiarities of the Messel fish fauna and their palaeoecological implications: a case study. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92(4) 585-629. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0106-4

Parham, J. F., Donogue, P. C. J., Bell, C. J., Calway, T. D., Head, J. J. et al. (2012). Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations. Systematic Biology 61:: 1-14.

Preuschoft, H. & Franzen, J. L. (2012). Locomotion and biomechanics in Eocene mammals from Messel. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92:(4) 459-476. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0103-7

Rage, J. C. (2012). Amphibians and squamates in the Eocene of Europe: what do they tell us? In LEHMANN, T. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (Eds.), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (Vol. 92, pp. 445-457).

Rose, K. D. (2012). The importance of Messel for interpreting Eocene Holarctic mammalian faunas. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92:(4) 631-647. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0090-8

Rosenberger, A. L. & Preuschoft, H. (2012). Evolutionary morphology, cranial biomechanics and the origins of tarsiers and anthropoids. In LEHMANN, T. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (Eds.), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (Vol. 92, pp. 507-525).

Sauther, M. L. & Cuozzo, F. P. (2012). Understanding Eocene primate palaeobiology using a comprehensive analysis of living primate ecology, biology and behaviour. In LEHMANN, T. & SCHAAL, S. F. K. (Eds.), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (Vol. 92, pp. 573-583).

Smith, K. T. & Wuttke, M. (2012). From tree to shining sea: taphonomy of the arboreal lizard Geiseltaliellus maarius from Messel, Germany. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92(1) 45-65. doi:10.1007/s12549-011-0064-2

Smith, T., Habersetzer, J., Simmons, N. B. & Gunnell, G. F. (2012). Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats New York: Cambridge University Press.

Wuttke, M., Reisdorf, A. G. & (Guest Editors). (2012). Special Issue: Taphonomic processes in terrestrial and marine environments (Vol. 92) Heidelberg: Springer.

Populärwissenschaftliche Artikel

Engels, S., Habersetzer, J. & Kullmer, O. (2012). Gebiss von Ida (Darwinius masillae) in 3 D virtuell rekonstruiert. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 142(11/12) 372-375.

Habersetzer, J. (2012). „Ida“ – ein besonderes Fossil aus der Grube Messel. Ida: Fascinating fossil from Messel Pit. Frankfurt am Main: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.

Harms, F.-J. (2012). Erdgeschichtlicher Wanderweg an der Grube Messel. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 47:73.

Lehmann, T. & Schaal, S. (2012). The World at the Time of Messel. Paläontologen aus fünf Kontinenten nahmen an der 22. Internationalen Senckenberg-Konferenz teil. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 142(3/4) 138-139.

Rabenstein, R. & Schaal, S. (2012). Erlebnisgestaltung Weltnaturerbe Grube Messel – Geologische Aspekte. In HANEKE, J., LANG, ROGER & RÖHLING, HEINZ-GERD (Ed.), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (pp. 39–41). Stuttgart: Schweizerbart Science Publishers.

Schaal, S. F. K. (2012). Messel. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons.

Schaal, S. F. K. (2012). Messel Pit Fossil Site – The Legacy of the Environment and Life of Eocene. In TALENT, J. A. (Ed.), Earth and Life. Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time (pp. 225-236). Dordrecht: Springer.

Schaal, S. F. K. (2012). Messel-Fossilien finden Ihren Weg nach China – Urpferdchen & Co im Paleontological Museum of Liaoning, Shenyang. Senckenberg – Natur, Forschung, Museum 142:(11/12) 380–383.

Schaal, S. F. K. & Joyce, W. G. (2012). Vereint, vergiftet, versteinert – Fossile Schildkröten im Doppelpack können erstmals als Weibchen und Männchen bei der Paarung identifiziert werden. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 142(11/12) 368-371.

Schaal, S. F. K. & Rabenstein, R. (2012). Der Tagebau Messel in Linien und Zahlen – Drei aktuelle Messel-Karten zum Download. Senckenberg – Natur, Forschung, Museum 142(11/12) 376–377.

Wedmann, S. (2012). Leuchtende Juwelen im Ölschiefer. München: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil.

From 2024 to 2010, 2011

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

Bastl, K., Morlo, M., Nagel, D. & Heizmann, E. P. J. (2011). Differences in the tooth eruption sequence in Hyaenodon (‚Creodonta‘: Mammalia) and implications for the systematics of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(1) 181-192. doi:https://www.jstor.org/stable/25835812

Franzen, J. L. (2011). Neue Säugetierfunde aus der mitteleozänen Fossillagerstätte Eckfelder Maar (Eifel, Deutschland). Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 48: 187-217.

Franzen, J. L. (2011). Strepsirrhine or haplorhine? Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Franzen, J. L., Habersetzer, J., Schlosser-Sturm, E. & Franzen, E. L. (2011). Palaeopathology of Darwinius masillae (Mammalia, Primates). Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Gaudant, J. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2011). A short account on the Eocene fish fauna from Huadian, Jilin Province, China. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Gunnell, G. F., Habersetzer, J., Schlosser-Sturm, E., Simmons, N. B. & Smith, T. (2011). Primitive chiropteran teeth – The complete dentition of the Messel bat Archaeonycteris trigonodon. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Habersetzer, J. & Schlosser-Sturm, E. (2011). Morphological specializations of the shoulder joints in extant and fossil bats. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Hurum, J., Habersetzer, J. & Schlosser-Sturm, E. (2011). Cranial morphology of the Eocene primate Darwinius masillae. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Koch, M., Wedmann, S., Labandeira, C. & Hamlin, J. (2011). Fossil bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera) of Messel and Green River Formation (USA) – Are there any connections? Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Koenigswald, W. V., Habersetzer, J. & Gingerich, P. D. (2011). Morphology and evolution of the distal phalanges in primates. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Lehmann, T. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2011). The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. Paper presented at the 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Mayr, G. & Richter, G. (2011). Exceptionally preserved plant parenchyma in the digestive tract indicates a herbivorous diet in the Middle Eocene bird Strigogyps sapea (Ameghinornithidae). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 85:(3) 303-307. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0094-5

Mcnamara, M. E., Briggs, D. E. G., Orr, P. J., Wedmann, S., Noh, H. et al. (2011). Fossilized Biophotonic Nanostructures Reveal the Original Colors of 47-Million-Year-Old Moths. Plos Biology, 9(11), e1001200 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001200

Mcnamara, M. E., Briggs, D. E. G., Orr, P. J., Wedmann, S., Noh, H. et al. (2011). The original colurs of 47 million-year-old fossil moths from Grube Messel revealed by fossilised biophotonic nanostructures. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Morlo, M., Gunnell, G. F. & Smith, K. T. (2011). Mammalian carnivores from Messel and a comparison of non-volant predator guilds from the middle Eocene of Europe and North America. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Preuschoft, H. & Franzen, J. L. (2011). Locomotion in some Eocene mammals from Messel, seen from a biomechanical viewpoint. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Smith, K. T. (2011). Biogeography and Cenozoic Climate Change: On the occurence of tropical forms in Grube Messel and other Mid-Latitude fossil sites. Paper presented at the Status and Future of Tropical Biodiversity. Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology, Frankfurt am Main. Programme & Abstracts retrieved from

Smith, K. T. (2011). The Evolution of Mid-latitude Faunas during the Eocene: Late Eocene Lizards of the Medicine Pole Hills Reconsidered. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 52(1) 3-105.

Smith, K. T. (2011). The Long-Term History of Dispersal Among Lizards in the Early Eocene: New Evidence from a Microvertebrate assemblage in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, USA. Palaeontology 54(6) 1243-1270.

Smith, K. T. (2011). On the phylogenetic affinity of the extinct acrodontan lizard Tinosaurus. Bonner Zoologische Monographien 57: 9-28.

Smith, K. T. (2011). Oreithyia, a Replacement Name for Orithyia Smith, 2011, nec Orithyia Fabricius, 1798. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 52(2) 273.

Smith, K. T., Schaal, S. F. K., Sun, W. & Li, C.-T. (2011). Acrodont Iguanians (Squamata) from the Middle Eocene of the Huadian Basin of Jilin Province, China, with a critique of the taxon „Tinosaurus„. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 49(1) 69-84.

Smith, T., Habersetzer, J., Simmons, N. B. & Gunnell, G. F. (2011). Diversity and biogeography of early bats. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Stefen, C. & Lehmann, T. (2011). On new material of Kopidodon macrognathus (Mammalia, Paroxyclaenidae) from Messel. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Wedmann, S. (2011). Insects from the Eocene of Messel and their biogeographical implications. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Wedmann, S., Hörnschemeyer, T. & Schmied, H. (2011). Fossil Water-Penny Beetles (Coleoptera: Psephenidae: Eubrianacinae) from the Eocene of Europe, with remarks on their Phylogenetic Position and Biogeography. Palaeontology 54(5) 965-980. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01088.x

Wuttke, M., Reisdorf, A. G. & Franzen, J. L. (2011). Taphonomic phenomena of the Messel Equoidea. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Populärwissenschaftliche Artikel

Harms, F.-J. (2011). Die Grube Messel auf Luftbildern von 1956/57. Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Darmstadt, Bericht Neue Folge 34: 1-39.

Höllwarth, M. & Mit Beiträgen Von Treichel, S. O., Harms, F.-J. (Geologie). (2011). Fossilien- und Heimatmuseum Messel. Rundgang durch das Museum. Messel.

Lehmann, T. (2011). The world at the time of Messel: nd International Senckenberg Conference. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 44: 87-88.

Lehmann, T. & Schaal, S. F. K. (2011). Preface. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Rabenstein, R. (2011). Fledermausführungen im Weltnaturerbe Grube Messel. Zoopädagogik aktuell 26: 42-44.

Rabenstein, R., Habersetzer, J. & Schlosser-Sturm, E. (2011). 3D reconstructions of Eocene and extant bats – Multimedia materials for public activities in the Year of the Bat 2011. Paper presented at the The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main.

Rabenstein, R. & Schaal, S. (2011). Messeler Fossiliensammlungen – Einblicke in einen 47 Millionen Jahre alten Lebensraum. Senckenberg – natur forschung museum 141(3/4) 90-95.

Rabenstein, R. & Waldkircher, G. (2011). Schule trifft Wissenschaft – Ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen dem Lessing Gymnasium Lampertheim und Senckenberg. Zoopädagogik aktuell 27: 4-9.

Schaal, S. (2011). Biodiversity in the Eocene of Messel, Germany. Paper presented at the Int’l Symposium on Paleontology & Geology in Liaoning, China: Abstracts, Shenyang, China.

Sparwasser, K., Habersetzer, J. & Rabenstein, R. (Eds.). (2011). Urzeit am Geistersee & Ida completed. Ein Urpferd geht 3D & Messel – Entstehung eines Naturwunders. Frankfurt a.M., Eppstein.

Wedmann, S. & Schaal, S. (2011). 12. Messel-Arbeitstreffen 2011. GMIT Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 44: 86-87.

Wedmann, S. & Schaal, S. (2011). The Messel Pit Fossil Site: history and activities for its protection and scientific research Paper presented at the Problems of protecting the heritage of material culture of historic mines in European Union countries, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland.

From 2024 to 2010, 2010

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

Büchel, G., Schaal, S., Harms, F.-J. & Pirrung, M. (2010). Rekonstruktion des Messel-Maarvulkans. Paper presented at the GeoDarmstadt 2010-Geowissenschaften sichern Zukunft, Geosciences secure the future. 162. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften & 99. Jahrestagung der Geologischen Vereinigung & 8th European Coal Conference., Frankfurt am Main und Darmstadt.

Fikacek, M., Wedmann, S. & Schmied, H. (2010). Diversification of the of the greater hydrophilines clade of giant water scavenger beetles dated back to the Middle Eocene (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilina). Invertebrate Systematics 24: 9-22. doi:10.1071/IS09042

Franzen, E. L. (2010). Exkurs: Der Ursprung der Anthropoidea. Querschnitte 4(10) 19-21.

Franzen, E. L. (2010). Exkurs: Ida – Darwins Halbaffe (Darwinius masillae). Querschnitte 4(10) 22-25.

Franzen, E. L., Gudo, M. & Syed, T. (2010). Das „Tier-Mensch-Übergangsfeld“: Evolutive Wandlung und konstruktionsmorphologische Rekonstruktion. Querschnitte 4(10) 3-18.

Franzen, J. L. (2010). Ida – Darwins Halbaffe (Darwinius masillae). Querschnitte. Materialien für Wissenschaftsvermittlung und Selbststudium 5(10) 22-25.

Frey, E., Munk, W., Böhme, M., Morlo, M. & Hensel, M. (2010). First creodont carnivore from the Rupelian Clays (Oligocene) of the Clay Pit Unterfeld at Rauenberg (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg): Apterodon rauenbergensis n.sp. Kaupia 17: 107-113.

Gingerich, P., Franzen, J., Habersetzer, J., Hurum, J. & Smith, B. (2010). Systematic Position of the Eocene Primate Darwinius masillae. In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. 30 pp. 97A). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Gingerich, P. D., Franzen, J. L., Habersetzer, J., Hurum, J. H. & Smith, B. H. (2010). Darwinius masillae is a Haplorhine — Reply to Williams et al. (2010). Journal of Human Evolution 59:(5) 574-579.

Grohé, C., Morlo, M., Salem, M., Salem, M. & Jaeger, J. J. (2010). The oldest apterodontinae (Hyaenodontidae, “Creodonta”) from the middle Eocene of Dor El Talha (Libya). In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. 30, pp. 99A). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Habersetzer, J. & Schlosser-Sturm, E. (2010). Primitive and derived shoulder joints of Messel bats. Paper presented at the 15th International Bat Research Conference, Prague

Harms, F.-J. (2010). Kriegsgefangene und Zwangsarbeiter in der Grube Messel. Kaupia Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 17: 115-143.

Hörnschemeyer, T., Wedmann, S. & Poinar, G. (2010). How long can insect species exist? Evidence from extant and fossil Micromalthus beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2010(158) 300-311. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00549.x

Lehmann, T. (2010). Evolutionary history of Tubulidentata (Mammalia, Afrotheria) and the origin of the living aardvark. In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. 30 pp. 122 A). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Lenz, O. K., Wilde, V., Riegel, W. & Harms, F.-J. (2010). A 600 k.y. record of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO): Evidence for persisting teleconnections during the Middle Eocene greenhouse climate of Central Europe. Geology 38:(7) 627-630. doi:10.1130/G30889.1

Lenz, O. K., Wilde, V., Riegel, W. & Harms, F.-J. (2010). Evidence for strong land-sea-interactions by El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Middle Eocene of Central Europe. In HOPPE, A., RÖHLING, H.-G. & SCHÜTH, C. (Eds.), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (Vol. 68, pp. 359). Hannover.

Lewis, M. E. & Morlo, M. (2010). Creodonta. In SANDERS, W. J. & WERDELIN, L. (Eds.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. Cenozoic Mammals of Africa (pp. 543-560). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lutz, H., Kaulfuss, U., Wappler, T., Löhnertz, W., Wilde, V. et al. (2010). Eckfelder Maar: Window into an Eocene Terrestrial Habitat in Central Europe. Acta Geologica Sinica (Englisch Edition) 84(4) 984-1009.

Maul, L. C., Smith, K. T., Barkai, R., Karkanas, P., Shahack-Gross, R. et al. (2010). Microfaunal remains at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel: Preliminary results on small vertebrates, environments an biostratigraphy. Journal of Human Evolution 60(2011) 464-480.

Morlo, M., Gunnell, G. F. & Nagel, D. (2010). Ecomorphological analysis of carnivore guilds in the Eocene through Miocene of Laurasia. In GOSWAMI, A. & FRISCIA, A. (Eds.), Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form, and Function (pp. 269-310). Cambridge Cambridge University Press.

Morlo, M. & Peigné, S. (2010). Molecular and morphological evidence for Ailuridae and a review of its genera. In GOSWAMI, A. & FRISCIA, A. (Eds.), Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form, and Function (pp. 92-140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Simmons, N. B., Seymour, K. L., Habersetzer, J. & Gunnell, G. F. (2010). Inferring echolocation in ancient bats. In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. 30 pp. 165A). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Simmons, N. B., Seymour, K. L., Habersetzer, J. & Gunnell, G. F. (2010). Inferring echolocation in ancient bats. Arising from: N.Veselka et al. Nature 463, 939-942 (2010). Nature 466: E8 – E9. doi:10.1038/nature09219 (2010)

Stefen, C. & Lehmann, T. (2010). New juvenile and adult material of Kopidodon macrognathus (Mammalia: Paroxyclaenidae) from Messel, Germany. In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. 30 pp. 170A). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Volpato, V. & Lehmann, T. (2010). Endostructural variations in the appendicular elements of running and hopping extant mammals. Implications for the reconstruction of Leptictidium (Eocene, Messel pit) locomotion. In HOPPE, A., RÖHLING, H.-G. & SCHÜTH, C. (Eds.), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (Vol. 68, pp. 579-580). Hannover.

Wedmann, S. (2010). Biodiversity of bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera) from the Messel pit and other fossil sites. In HOPPE, A., RÖHLING, H.-G. & SCHÜTH, C. (Eds.), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (Vol. 68, pp. 594-595). Hannover.

Wedmann, S. (2010). A brief review of the fossil history of plant masquerade by insects. Palaeontographica, Abteilung B 283:(4-6) 175-182.

Wedmann, S., Hörnschemeyer, T. & Schmied, H. (2010). Eocene water-penny beetles (Coleoptera: Psephenidae) from Europe, their phylogeny and their significance for biogeography. In (pp. 180-181). Beijing, China: Capital Normal University.

Wedmann, S., Hörnschemeyer, T. & Schmied, H. (2010). Water-penny beetles (Coleoptera: Psephenidae) from the Eocene of Europe. In HOPPE, A., RÖHLING, H.-G. & SCHÜTH, C. (Eds.), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (Vol. 68, pp. 593-594). Hannover.

Wedmann, S., Labandeira, C. & Hamlin, J. (2010). Biodiversity of bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera) from Eocene fossil sites. In (pp. 77). Beijing, China: Capital Normal University.

Wedmann, S., Poschmann, M. & Hörnschemeyer, T. (2010). Fossil insects from the late Oligocene Enspel Lagerstätte and their palaeobiogeographic and palaeoclimatic significance. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 90(1) 49-58. doi:10.1007/s12549-009-0013-5

Wedmann, S. & Schaal, S. (2010). The Messel Pit Fossil Site – a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 66: 99-100.

Populärwissenschaftliche Artikel

Franzen, J. L. (2010). Darwinius masillae – Darwins Halbaffe und die Primatenfunde aus der Grube Messel. Natur und Museum 140(1/2) 12-29.

Franzen, J. L. (Ed.) (2010). The Rise of Horses. 55 Million Years of Evolution. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Habersetzer, J. (2010). Eine kurze Geschichte von Darwinius masillae und eine Reise ins Innere des Fossils. Natur und Museum 140(1/2) 2-11.

Harms, F.-J. (2010). Vitrine November/Dezember 2010: Öl aus der Grube Messel. Natur und Museum 140(11/12) 332-333.

Lewis, M. E. & Morlo, M. (2010). Creodonta. In SANDERS, W. J. & WERDELIN, L. (Eds.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. Cenozoic Mammals of Africa (pp. 543-560). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rabenstein, R. (2010). Bats in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Messel Pit – Ambassadors of a palaeontological site for the Protection of a Geotope and a Biotope. In MÜGGE-BARTOLOVI´C, RÖHLING, H.-G. & WREDE, V. (Eds.), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (Vol. 66, pp. 116-117). Hannover.

Rabenstein, R. (2010). Terrestrial Eocene and the Messel Pit Fossil Site – Specific Educational Projects on Fossils of the World Heritage Site. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 68: 450-451.

Rabenstein, R. (2010). UNESCO Weltnaturerbe Grube Messel Erlensee: Fliegende Kamera.

Rabenstein, R., Diehl, D., Habersetzer, J. & Schlosser-Sturm, E. (2010). Nocturnal Hunters in the Messel Pit – Fossil und Extant Bats of the UNESCO World Heritage Site (Hesse, Germany). Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 68: 451-452.

Schaal, S. (2010). Project C: Tertiary floras and palaeoclimatic changes in NE China. Subproject C2: Eocene Vertebrates in Oil Shales of Huadian Shenyang (China); Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

Smith, K. T. (2010). Außergewöhnlicher Fund aus Messel. In JÄGER, P., KÖNIGSHOF, P. & VEIT-KÖHLER, G. (Eds.), Senckenberg 2007-2008 (pp. S. 35). Frankfurt am Main: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.

Smith, K. T. (2010). Fossile Systeme. In JÄGER, P., KÖNIGSHOF, P. & VEIT-KÖHLER, G. (Eds.), Senckenberg 2007-2008 (pp. S. 34). Frankfurt am Main: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.

Waldkircher, G. & Rabenstein, R. (2010). Geotope Protection making an Important Contribution to the Conservation of Bats – Sucessful Co-operation between Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut Frankfurt and Lessing-Gymnasium Lampertheim (MINT EC certified school). In MÜGGE-BARTOLOVI´C, V., RÖHLING, H.-G. & WREDE, V. (Eds.), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (Vol. 66, pp. 130-131). Hannover.

Wedmann, S. (2010). Fossile Wanzen der Grube Messel sind Zeugen von Umweltveränderungen. Vergleich verschiedener Insektenfaunen ermöglicht die Rekonstruktion vergangener Prozesse. Natur und Museum 140(9) 222-223.

Wenzel, T. & Rabenstein, R. (2010). Darwinius masillae – Ein Fossil wird zum Leben erweckt. Natur und Museum 140(1/2) 30 – 33.

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PD Dr. Krister T. Smith

Head of Department Messel Research and Paleobiology

Phone +49 69 7542-1218

krister.smith@senckenberg.de

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Anika Vogel

Technical Assistant

Phone +49 69 7542-1351

anika.vogel@senckenberg.de

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Dr. Renate Rabenstein

Honorary Research Associate

Phone +49 69 7542-1278

renate.rabenstein@senckenberg.de

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