Erlangen paleontologists and TERSANE members met in Paris for the 5th International Palaeontological Congress. A total of 12 talks and keynotes were presented on diverse topics such as latitudinal selectivity, body size and paleobiogeographic patterns during mass extinctions. Diversity patterns and... Continue

Prof. John Pandolfi (University of Queensland) will give a talk this Friday at 11.00h Uhr in our Paläontologischer Übungsraum (Schlossgarten). The 2016 Mass Coral Bleaching Event in Australia Continue

Wonders of the end-Guadalupian (Permian) extinction The largest mass extinction of the Phanerozoic occurred in two distinct steps. The Permo-Triassic boundary extinction, the second episode (252 Ma), is widely known; however, the first one at the end of Guadalupian (Middle Permian; 259 Ma) was p... Continue

Modern-day global warming appears so dangerous for our future that many geologists/paleontologists claimed for an analogy from the past. Nonetheless, is the on-going warming explained solely by human activity? This talk explores an alternative possible cause of global warming/cooling, not on the earth but in the universe. Continue

International Course on Organofacies Analysis: "Sedimentary Organic Matter - Principles & Applications" For everyone interested in organic-walled microfossils and other microscopic organic matter - from origin to distribution, preservation, maturation and even hydrocarbon generation - we ... Continue