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The complex interactions between geodynamics and climate change that support biodiversity are among the most fascinating aspects of our world. Using oceanic islands as a model system, this talk will explore the fundamental processes that generate and maintain the unique diversity of life on Earth. Inaugural lecture by the new professor for Systems Palaeobiology on Monday 5th November 17:15. Continue

First and second-year master students in our international program “Palaeobiology and Earth Systems Research Lab” joined our Paleobiology staff on a research retreat in Franconian Switzerland. We had an intense exchange of ideas and planned the research projects as well as seminars and we explore th... Continue

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