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Barbara Seuß

Dr. Barbara Seuß

Dr. rer. nat. Barbara Seuß

Seuß, Barbara

Geozentrum Nordbayern
Chair of Palaeontology (Prof. Dr. Kießling)

Fichtestraße 12
91054 Erlangen
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-24785
  • Fax number: +49 9131 85-22690
  • Email: barbara.seuss@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.gzn.nat.fau.de/palaeontologie/team/wissenschaftler/seuss

Research

  • Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte (Pennsylvanian) in Oklahoma
  • Upper Cerboniferous Lagerstätten
  • Diversity during the Permo-Carboniferous Ice Age
  • Bioerosion in Nautilus sp.

Scientific career

  • since October 2019: Project monitoring for the Volkswagen Stiftung funded Paleosynthesis project: Strengthening Paleontology – The German seed for global cooperation
  • June 2014: Approval of the DFG application “Paleobiodiversity and fauna structure in deposits during Permo-Carboniferous and the reaction of marine benthos to global cooling” – Start: August 1, 2014
  • FFL grant “Bioerosion in Nautilus” (August 2013-July 2014)
  • Rigorosum in April 2012
  • February 2012: Submission of the dissertation: “The Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry – An Impregnation Deposit: Its Facies, Fauna, Paleobiology & Depositional Environment”
  • Dissertation at the GeoZentrum Nordbayern – Fachgruppe Paläoumwelt of the FAU within the DFG project NU-96 / 10-1, 2: Late Paleozoic larval paleobiology
  • May 2006 to June 2013 research assistant at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg partially with teaching load
  • Aug. 05 – Apr. 06: Research assistant at the FAU
  • Studies: Geology and paleontology at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Graduated with diploma in July 2005
  • Publications

    Journal Articles

    • Karapunar B., Nützel A., Seuß B., Mapes RH.:
      Taxonomy and diversity of slit-band gastropods (OrderPleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropodafrom the Pennsylvanian of the USA
      In: Papers in Palaeontology (2022), Article No.: e1417
      ISSN: 2056-2799
      DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1417
    • Niko S., Seuß B., Mapes RH.:
      Virgilian (Late Pennsylvanian) coiled nautiloids from the Finis Shale Member of the Graham Formation in Texas, southern Midcontinent North America
      In: Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 21 (2022), p. 21-38
      ISSN: 1346-2040
    • Ernst A., Claußen AL., Seuß B., Wyse Jackson P.:
      Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Graham Formation, Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) at Lost Creek Lake, Texas, USA
      In: Palaeontologia Electronica 25.2 (2022)
      ISSN: 1094-8074
      DOI: 10.26879/1174
    • Balthasar U., Kershaw S., Da Silva AC., Seuß B., Cusack M., Eichenseer K., Chung P.:
      Palaeozoic stromatoporoids and chaetetids analysed using Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD); implications for original mineralogy and microstructure
      In: Facies 67:8 (2021)
      ISSN: 0172-9179
      DOI: 10.1007/s10347-020-00618-5
    • Abdelhady AA., Seuß B., Fürsich F., Ali A., Abdel-Racheem KH., Mohamed RS.:
      Paleoenvironmental significance of the monospecific biostromes in the Campanian-Maastrichtian Duwi Formation (Eastern Desert, Egypt)
      In: Sedimentary Geology 408 (2020), Article No.: 105772
      ISSN: 0037-0738
      DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105772
    • Seuß B., Roden V., Kocsis Á.:
      Biodiversity patterns across the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
      In: Palaeontologia Electronica (2020)
      ISSN: 1094-8074
    • Roden V., Hausmann IM., Nützel A., Seuß B., Reich M., Urlichs M., Hagdorn H., Kießling W.:
      Fossil liberation: a model to explain high biodiversity in the Triassic Cassian Formation
      In: Palaeontology (2019), Article No.: pala.12441
      ISSN: 0031-0239
      DOI: 10.1111/pala.12441
    • Abdelhady A., Seuß B., Hassan H.:
      Stratigraphic ranking of selected invertebrate fossils: A quantitative approach at different temporal and geographic scales
      In: Palaeontologia Electronica 22.2.51A (2019), p. 1-17
      ISSN: 1094-8074
      DOI: 10.26879/912
      URL: https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2019/2693-ranking-of-invertebrates
    • Seuß B., Nützel A.:
      Bioerosion in fossil cephalopods - a case study from the Upper Carboniferous Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte, Oklahoma, USA
      In: Facies 65 (2019), p. 7-17
      ISSN: 0172-9179
      DOI: 10.1007/s10347-018-0547-y
    • Niko S., Seuß B., Mapes RH.:
      Desmoinesian (Middle Pennsylvanian) orthocerid cephalopods from the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte in Oklahoma, Midcontinent North America
      In: Paleontological Research 22 (2018), p. 20-36
      ISSN: 1342-8144
      DOI: 10.2517/2017PR008
    • Abdelhady A., Seuß B., El-Dawy M., Obaidalla N., Hussien S., Mahfouzd K.:
      The Unitary Association method in biochronology and its potential stratigraphic power between benthic and planktic organisms: A case study on foraminifers from Paleocene–Eocene strata of southern Egypt
      In: Geobios 51 (2018), p. 259-268
      ISSN: 0016-6995
      DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2018.06.005
    • Ivanov A., Seuß B., Nützel A.:
      The fish assemblage from the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA)
      In: Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 91 (2017), p. 565–576
      ISSN: 0031-0220
      DOI: 10.1007/s12542-017-0361-9
    • Ernst A., Seuß B., Taylor P., Nützel A.:
      Bryozoan fauna of the Boggy Formation (Deese Group, Pennsylvanian) of the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry, Oklahoma, USA
      In: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 96 (2016), p. 517-540
      ISSN: 1867-1594
      DOI: 10.1007/s12549-016-0231-6
    • Seuß B., Wisshak M., Mapes RH., Hembree DI., Landman N., Lignier V.:
      Microbial bioerosion of erratic sub-fossil Nautilus shells in a karstic cenote (Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia)
      In: Ichnos-An International Journal For Plant and Animal Traces 23 (2016), p. 108-115
      ISSN: 1042-0940
      DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2015.1030074
    • Seuß B., Wisshak M., Mapes RH., Landman N.:
      Syn-vivo bioerosion of Nautilus by endo- and epilithic foraminiferans (New Caledonia and Vanuatu)
      In: PLoS ONE 10 (2015), p. e0125558
      ISSN: 1932-6203
      DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125558
    • Seuß B., Hembree DI., Wisshak M., Mapes RH., Landman N.:
      Taphonomy of backshore versus deep-marine collected nautilus macromphalus conchs (New Caledonia)
      In: Palaios 30 (2015), p. 503-513
      ISSN: 0883-1351
      DOI: 10.2110/palo.2014.057
    • Seuß B., Senowbari-Daryan B., Nützel A., Dittrich S., Neubauer J., Neubauer J.:
      A chaetetid sponge assemblage from the Desmoinesian (Upper Moscovian) Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry lagerstätte in Oklahoma, USA
      In: Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia 120 (2014), p. 3-26
      ISSN: 0035-6883
    • Seuß B., Mapes RH., Klug C., Nützel A.:
      Exceptional cameral deposits in a sublethally injured Carboniferous orthoconic nautiloid from the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte in Oklahoma, USA
      In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (2012), p. 375-390
      ISSN: 0567-7920
      DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0008
    • Seuß B., Titschack J., Seifert S., Neubauer J., Nützel A.:
      Oxygen and stable carbon isotopes from a nautiloid from the middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) impregnation Lagerstätte "Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry" - Primary paleo-environmental signals versus diagenesis
      In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 319/320 (2012), p. 1-15
      ISSN: 0031-0182
    • Seuß B., Nützel A., Scholz H., Frýda J.:
      The Paleozoic evolution of the gastropod larval shell: larval armor and tight coiling as results of predation-driven heterochronic character displacement
      In: Evolution & Development 142 (2012), p. 212-222
      ISSN: 1520-541X
      DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2012.00536.x
    • Arp G., Schulbert C., Seuß B., Aiglstorfer M., Havlik P., Krause T., Waltschew A., Strobl C.:
      Neuaufschluss des berühmten Schwarzjura-Profils am historischen Ludwig-Donau-Main-Kanal bei Dörlbach/Mittelfranken
      In: GMIT - Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 45 (2011), p. 21-23
      ISSN: 1616-3931
    • Seuß B., Nützel A., Mapes RH., Yancey TE.:
      Facies and fauna of the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry deposit: a review and new data on an important Palaeozoic fossil Lagerstätte with aragonite preservation
      In: Facies 55 (2009), p. 609-645
      ISSN: 0172-9179
      DOI: 10.1007/s10347-009-0181-9
    • Seuß B., Höfling R., Nützel A.:
      Triassic-Jurassic carbonates from the Hochfelln Mountain (Northern Calcareous Alps) - Its facies, silicified fauna and implications for the end-Triassic biotic crisis
      In: Facies 51 (2005), p. 405-418
      ISSN: 0172-9179
      DOI: 10.1007/s10347-005-0048-7

    Book Contributions

    • Seuß B., Mapes RH.:
      Cephalopoda
      In: IGCP 596 Climate Change and Biodiversity Patterns in the Mid-Palaeozoic, 2016, p. 34
    • Seuß B., Nützel A.:
      Gastropoda
      In: IGCP 596 Climate Change and Biodiversity Patterns in the Mid-Palaeozoic, 2016, p. 44
    • Seuß B., Mapes RH.:
      Pennsylvanian in North Central Texas, USA - The Finis Shale
      In: IGCP 596 Climate Change and Biodiversity Patterns in the Mid-Palaeozoic, 2016, p. 44
    • Seuß B.:
      Pennsylvanian of Southern Oklahoma (Upper Carboniferous, USA) - The Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry
      In: IGCP 596 Climate Change and Biodiversity Patterns in the Mid-Palaeozoic, 2016, p. 42
      DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.12.008
    • Wisshak M., Seuß B., Nützel A.:
      Evolutionary implications of an exceptionally preserved Carboniferous microboring assemblage in the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA)
      In: Current Developments in Bioerosion, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, p. 21-54
      ISBN: 9783540775973

      DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0-2

    Conference Contributions

    • Nuetzel A., Seuß B.:
      New data on the evolution of nertimorph gastropods
      6th IPC (Khon Kaen, 7. November 2022 - 11. November 2022)
      In: IPC6 From Gondwana to Laurussia 2022
    • Nützel A., Seuß B.:
      On the evolution of neritimorph gastropods
      93. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (Stuttgart, 19. September 2022 - 23. September 2022)
    • Seuß B., Weiland E., Mapes RH.:
      A Nautilus and the history of its taphonomy
      World Congress of Maacology (München, 1. August 2022 - 5. August 2022)
      In: SNSB (ed.): Spixiana 2022
    • Ivanov A., Seuß B.:
      Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shale of North-Central Texas
      54th Annual Meeting, South-Central Section of the GSA (Dallas, 9. March 2020 - 10. March 2020)
      DOI: 10.1130/abs/2020SC-342823
    • Friedel JC., Amler MR., Seuß B.:
      Bivalves from the Finis Shale (Virgilian) of North Central Texas – analysis of life habits and palaeoecology
      Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (München, 15. September 2019 - 18. September 2019)
    • Roden V., Hausmann IM., Nützel A., Seuß B., Reich M., Urlichs M., Hagdorn H., Kießling W.:
      The role of liberation lagerstätten as windows into past biodiversity
      11th North American Paleontological Convention (Riverside, CA, 23. June 2019 - 27. June 2019)
      In: Droser, M., N. Hughes, N. Bonuso, D. Bottjer, D. Eernisse, R. Gaines, A. Hendy, D. Jacobs, J. Miller-Camp, R. Norris, K. Roy, P. Sadler, M. Springer, X. Wang, and M. Vendrasco (ed.): PaleoBios 36 (Supplement 1), Riverside, CA: 2019
      URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6r18f8wn
    • Friedel JC., Amler MR., Seuß B.:
      Bivalves from the Pennsylvanian Finis Shale (Virgilian) of North Central Texas - Notes on taxonomy, life habits and palaeoecology
      GSA Annual Meeting (Phoenix, 22. September 2019 - 25. September 2019)
    • Friedel JC., Amler MR., Seuß B.:
      Tales from a shale - taxonomy and analysis of life habits of bivalves from the Pennsylvanian Finis Shale (Virgilian) of North Central Texas
      19th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (Köln, 29. July 2019 - 2. August 2019)
      In: Kölner Forum Geol. Paläont. 23 2019
    • Seuß B., Roden V., Kocsis Á., Kießling W.:
      The Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) – Turnover rates during a phase of major climatic changes
      Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft in München (München, 15. September 2019 - 18. September 2019)
    • Seuß B., Roden V., Kocsis Á., Kießling W.:
      Turnover rates of Paleozoic and modern taxa during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
      GSA Annual Meeting (Phoenix, 22. September 2019 - 25. September 2019)
    • Seuß B., Nützel A.:
      A Case Study On Bioerosion In Fossil Cephalopods From The Upper Carboniferous Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte, Oklahoma, USA
      GSA (Indianapolis)
    • Roden V., Hausmann IM., Seuß B., Nützel A., Kießling W.:
      High diversity in the Triassic Cassian Formation
      GeoBonn2018, Living Earth (Bonn, 2. September 2018)
    • Seuß B., Nützel A.:
      Endolithic bioerosion in cephalopods from the upper Carboniferous Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA)
      9th International Bioerosion Workshop (Rom, 19. October 2017)
    • Nützel A., Seuß B.:
      The gastropods from the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Deposit (Oklahoma, USA) – an unique mollusc Lagerstätte
      88. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (Münster, 1. September 2017)
    • Seuß B., Hembree DI., Wisshak M., Mapes RH.:
      The influence of bioerosion on taphonomy - a case stuy using Nautilus macromphalus
      GSA Annual meeting (Seattle, 25. October 2017)
    • Seuß B., Ernst A., Taylor P., Nützel A.:
      Exceptional preservation of bryozoans from the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry, Oklahoma, USA
      Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (Dresden)
    • Seuß B., Taylor P., Ernst A., Nützel A.:
      Pennsylvanian Bryozoans of Exceptional Preservation from the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry, Oklahoma
      GSA Annual Meeting (Denver, 1. September 2016)
    • Taylor P., Seuß B., Ernst A.:
      Exceptional preservation of Carboniferous bryozoans in the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry of Oklahoma, USA
      13th Larwood Symposium (Thurso, 1. June 2015)
    • Seuß B., Wisshak M., Mapes RH., Landman N.:
      Bioerosion in shells of modern Nautilus - Results from the investigation of live caught specimens
      9th International Symposium 'Cephalopods present and past (Zürich, 1. September 2014)
    • Seuß B.:
      Bioerosion in shells of modern Nautilus - Taphonomy of deep-marine versus backshore collected Nautilus macromphalus conchs (New Caledonia); 2014)
      9th International Symposium 'Cephalopods present and past' (Zürich, 1. September 2014)
    • Seuß B., Senowbari-Daryan B., Nützel A.:
      Chaetetids from the Upper Carboniferous Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte, Oklahoma
      Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (Göttingen, 1. September 2013)
    • Seuß B., Senowbari-Daryan B., Nützel A.:
      Chaetetids from the Upper Carboniferous Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry Lagerstätte, Oklahoma
      Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (Zürich, 1. December 2013)
    • Seuß B.:
      Study on a fossil nautiloid – surprising insights
      Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (Berlin, 1. September 2012)
    • Seuß B., Mapes RH., Klug C., Nützel A.:
      Cameral deposits in a sublethally damaged Pennsylvanian “Michelinoceras sp.” from the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte in Oklahoma, USA
      Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (Gent, 1. December 2010)
    • Barbara Seuss, Royal Mapes, Christian Klug, Alexander Nützel:
      Cameral deposits in a sublethally damaged Pennsylvanian Pseudorthoceras sp. from the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte in Oklahoma, USA
      Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (München, 1. September 2010)
    • Seuß B., Titschack J., Nützel A.:
      Primary versus diagenetic isotope signals in Pseudorthoceras sp. from the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry (mid-Pennsylvanian, Oklahoma) - a detailed study of cameral deposits
      Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (München, 1. September 2010)
    • Seuß B., Wisshak M., Nützel A., Schulbert C.:
      An exceptionally preserved Carboniferous faunal assemblage from the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA)
      Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, (Erlangen, 1. September 2008)
    • Seuß B., Nützel A., Mapes RH., Yancey TE.:
      The Buckhorn Asphalt deposit – An unique fossil Lagerstätte from the Pennsylvanian of Oklahoma
      GSA (Houston, 1. September 2008)
    • Seuß B., Nützel A., Schulbert C.:
      Exceptional Preservation of Molluscs in the Buckhorn Asphalt
      Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (Freiberg, 1. September 2007)
    • Seuß B., Nützel A., Schulbert C.:
      Exceptional Preservation of Molluscs in the Buckhorn Asphalt
      World Congress of Malacology (Antwerpen, 1. September 2007)
    • Seuß B., Nützel A., Höfling R., Schulbert C.:
      Facies and fauna of Triassic to Early Jurassic deposits from the Hochfelln Massif (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria)
      System Earth - Biosphere Coupling (Erlangen, 1. September 2005)

    Projects

    • Paleobiodiversity and community structures of Lagerstätten during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age and the response of the marine benthic invertebrate fauna to global cooling

      (Third Party Funds Single)

      Term: since 1. July 2014
      Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)
      Abstract

      Paleo-biodiversity studies have become of increasing interest and numerous manuscripts have been published dealing with global diversity trends throughout the Phanerozoic. However, data used in these studies mostly derive from databases that may contain various biases and therefore distort statistical analysis. Moreover, Fossil Lagerstätten are commonly excluded although the quality of preservation and information is much better than in other deposits - fossil assemblages from Lagerstätten reflect the composition of former living communities to a much higher degree.The Phanerozoic is marked by two long-term cooling events. One of these is the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) with its major onset in the middle to late Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) and ending in the mid-Sakmarian (Permian). This project focuses on the paleo-biodiversity during the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian), i.e. during a large part of the LPIA. Instead of purely using information from databases three fossil Lagerstätten (here Lagerstätten is used in terms of exceptionally preserved fauna; e.g. original shell material, color patterns, delicate ornamentation, minute larval shells) are sampled. These localities were influenced by the glacio-eustatic regime during the LPIA and are, from the American Midcontinent, the Finis Shale (Virgilian) and the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry (Desmoinesian) and, from the Appalachian Basin, the Kendrick Shale (Morrowan).One objective of this project is to study true biodiversities and ecological structures within deposits of exceptionally preserved fossils based on the fact that such deposits depict a more complete image of the original fossil assemblage than other localities. Stanley & Powell (2003) found that during the Pennsylvanian the rates of origination and extinction were depressed and that the global biodiversity remained relatively stable, whereas Alroy et al. (2008) found a general decrease in this period. Therefore, as the second objective, it will be tested if these previous results are visible in Lagerstätten from the Pennsylvanian as well: Do we also see depressed origination and extinction rates or decreasing biodiversity or are the results presented by Stanley & Powell (2003) and Alroy et al. (2008) caused by biases in their data, as for example by faunas of less quality of preservation? Furthermore, diversity dynamics will be studied by analyzing the Carboniferous-Permian faunal turnover. Which taxa control the diversities? The local marine paleo-temperatures within each profile will be investigated. Isotope-analyses will be carried out for the Finis Shale, the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry, and the Kendrick Shale. Temperature and diversity will be cross correlated to shed light on the relation of temperature and biodiversity during the LPIA to answer the question 'How does the living environment react to global cooling?'.

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