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Our PhD student Theresa Nohl was given the 1st place in the "Young Scientist Award" competition at the GeoBonn 2018 meeting for her talk "Lost in transition – the selective compaction of a halysitid coral and its implications for diagenesis and time". Congratulations! Our Palaeobiology team was ...

Our team presented at the CPEG2018 meeting "Crossing the Palaeontological - Ecological Gap" in Leeds. Vanessa Roden received a prize for her lightning talk "High beta diversity in a Triassic reef basin assemblage". Other presentations included: Carl Reddin "Marine invertebrate responses to tempe...

Connecting seemingly unrelated fields in science can yield surprising and fruitful insights and be the cause of great surprise. Who could have guesses that the way the geological record hides extinctions from us is mathematically equivalent to the methods teenagers use hide their pimples on their f...

Body size changes have been reported across crisis intervals. Belemnites – now considered extinct stemdecabrachians – have rarely been investigated for this purpose, and the few studies have resulted in ambiguous outcomes. Here we investigate two Toarcian belemnite accumulations in southern Ge...

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 an...

Abdelrahman Abdelshafy (Egypt) and Najat Issa al Fudhaili (Oman), both BSc-Students at GUtech (German University of Technology in Muscat, Oman), complete an internship with us. They work together with our preparator, Birgit Leipner-Mata, and Prof. Axel Munnecke. They stay in Erlangen until the end...

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

Amanda Godbold is visiting the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from May 5th to July 31st 2018. During her stay she will compare the temporal changes in biodiversity across multiple sections within the Dachstein reef for the purpose of assessing ecologic stability. She is also inte...

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 ...

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.