Curriculum Vitae
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)
Research projects
Evolution of eurasian micromammal associations
The small mammal remains and rodent gnaw-marks are investigated within the framework of the ongoing multi-disciplinary studies of the Lower Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld (see The Epivillafranchian of Untermassfeld, co-ordinated by R.-D. Kahlke). The analysis of the small mammals provides critical information that contributes to the interpretation of the biostratigraphical, palaeoecological and taphonomic context of the site. Until recently, the micromammal fossils consisted of isolated remains, but the latest excavations have recovered spectacularly well-preserved skeletons of several small mammal taxa, opening new possibilities for investigation.
Academic cooperation partner
R.-D. Kahlke (Senckenberg Weimar)
New exposures of the ‘Muschelton’ horizon at Voigtstedt/Hackelsberg (northern Thuringia) have been studied recently as part of a multi-disciplinary project. The Muschelton dates to an inverval between the Jaramillo Event and Matuyama/Brunhes Boundary, and thus represents a period of time poorly documented in Central Germany. Interdisciplinary appraisal of the botanical and faunal content are providing palaeoecological and biostratigraphical information relating to the ‘Artern Interglacial’, which is a temporal equivalent of the Muschelton sediments.
Academic cooperation partners
R.-D. Kahlke, F. Kienast, M. Stebich (Senckenberg Weimar), P. Frenzel (University of Jena), U. Hambach (University of Bayreuth), L. Katzschmann (Thuringian State Office for Environment and Geology, Jena), S. Meng (University of Greifswald), M. Thomas (BGR, Hannover), T. Henkel (University of Leipzig)
The small mammal remains from the early Middle Pleistocene site of West Runton, Norfolk England – the type locality of the Cromerian Interglacial – are being investigated. The main objectives are: paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and acquiring biometric data to infer biostratigraphic correlations with other small mammal faunas in Europe. The type material of 12 micromammal species described from West Runton is currently being checked for its validity.
Academic cooperation partners
S. Parfitt, A. J. Stuart, A. M. Lister (Natural History Museum London)
Late Pleistocene micromammals faunas the last interglacial (Burgtonna in Thuringia) and several phases of the subsequent glacial (Hunas, Sesselfelsgrott in Bavaria) are currently under investigation. Studies of the small mammal fauna will focus on faunal change across interglacial-glacial transitions, palaeoecological interpretation and transregional correlation.
Academic cooperation partners
L. Reisch (University of Erlangen), T. van Kolfschoten (University of Leiden), T. Henkel (University of Leipzig), S. Meng (University of Greifswald)
Biostratigraphic dating and palaeoecological interpretation of mammal associations in eurasian hominin sites
The late Middle Pleistocene deposits in Qesem Cave (age c. 200,000 years) have yielded artifacts, hominin teeth, archaeozoological remains and abundant microvertebrates. The current project combines expertise from Tel Aviv University and the Weimar Research Station with the aim of establishing a regional small mammal biostratigraphy and reconstructing the palaeoenvironmental setting of the early human occupation at Qesem.
Academic cooperation partners
A. Gopher, R. Barkai (University of Tel Aviv), K.T. Smith (Senckenberg Frankfurt/M.)
The mandible of the oldest hominin known from Central Europe was found at Mauer (near Heidelberg) in 1907. Finds of micromammal remains from the site have been extremely scarce, but new excavations and bulk-sieving by the local geologist M. Löscher have recovered a substantial sample of small mammal remains. This collection is currently under study at the Senckenberg Research Station. Preliminary results of the biostratigraphical work suggest the Mauer mandible dates to about 600,000 years ago.
Academic cooperation partners
M. Löscher (Leimen), G. Wagner (University of Heidelberg)
The early Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (age c. 700,000 years) yielded numerous records of activity of fossil humans as well as micromammal remains. Basing on them, the biostratigraphic age and the palaeoecological conditions of this archaeological/palaeontological locality can be reconstructed in co-operation with colleagues from the Jerusalem University.
Academic cooperation partners
R. Biton, R. Rabinovitch, N. Goren-Inbar (University of Jerusalem)
A major collaborative project is compiling data on micromammal associations of the Western Palaearctic between 5.6 and 0.4 Million years before present. The project will establish the sequence of regional faunistic changes and trends, as well as potential links with palaeoecological processes. Special attention will be devoted to sites with fossil hominins or evidence of human activity. The results will be compared with corresponding studies on large mammals faunas.
Academic cooperation partners
G. Cuenca Bescós (University of Zaragoza), W.-D. Heinrich (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin), I. Horáček (University of Prague), A. K. Markova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), F. Masini (University of Palermo), A. Nadachowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków), S. Parfitt (University College London and Natural History Museum, London), S. Sen (Musee National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
Phylogeny of Neogene and Quarternary micromammal lineages
Arvicolids (voles) play an important role in Plio- and Pleistocene studies due to their vast (Holarctic) range and rapid evolution. They are therefore particularly valuable for dating fossil sites. The elucidation of phylogenetic processes within this group is crucial for this purpose. Morphometric investigations on fossil material from various regions of Eurasia provide phylogenetic data. Further studies concern the antecessors of voles (the Miocene so-called microtoid cricetids), as well as Pleistocene cricetids (hamsters), sciurids (squirrels) and soricids (shrews).
Academic cooperation partners
F. Masini (University of Palermo), L. Rekovets (University of Wroclaw), W.-D. Heinrich (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin), O. Fejfar (University of Prague), A. K. Markova (Russian Academy of Sciences Moskow), S. Parfitt (University College London and Natural History Museum London), A. Tesakov (Geological Institute Moscow), J. Agusti (University of Taragona), G. Cuenca-Bescos (University of Zaragoza)
Curriculum vitae
1956
born in Weimar
1977-1982
studied biology (specialising in zoology), Humboldt University, Berlin
1982
Diploma in zoology: The rodents from the Pisede fossil burrows
1982-1990
scientific assistant at the Institute of Quaternary Palaeontology in Weimar
1991-1999
PhD in palaeozoology: The Biharian small mammal remains from Untermassfeld, Voigtstedt and Süssenborn and their chronological position within the Biharian micromammalian faunas of Europe
1990
scientific researcher in Quaternary Palaeontology (Institute of Geosciences of Friedrich- Schiller-University, Jena)
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
Publications
Scientific publications
MAUL, L. C. (2026): New results on micromammals from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld near Meiningen (Thüringen, Germany). Part 5. – Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 40 (5): 1567-1626; Propylaeum, Heidelberg.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1799.c27240
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://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/qu/article/view/79029
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.
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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.
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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
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.