Research projects

Overview by leaders

Dr. Jordan Bestwick

Ecological disparity of extinct flying reptiles; did birds outcompete the pterosaurs?

Dr. Jorge Domingo Carrillo Briceño

Fossils from Aldabra Atoll

Palaeobiology of fossil vertebrates in South America

Prof. Dr. Michael Hautmann

Differential extinction and survival of species in a diversity hotspot: A case study on Neogene marine invertebrates of Yule Island (Papua New Guinea)

Effect of mass extinctions, biotic recoveries, and macroecological changes on taxonomic distinctness: A case study on bivalves during the Palaeozoic – Mesozoic transition

Prof. Dr. Christian Klug

Evolution and Palaeobiology of early cephalopods (Nautiloidea)

Palaeobiology and anatomy of Mesozoic coleoids

The Devonian nekton radiation in a time of biodiversity crises

Prof. Dr. Catalina Pimiento Hernandez

SHARK EXTINCTIONS: from the past to the future

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Sánchez

Domestication - an evolutionary developmental perspective

Human cultural macroevolution and Neotropical Archaeology

Palaeobiology of fossil vertebrates in South America

Prof. Dr. Torsten Scheyer

Anatomy and palaeoecology of the Late Triassic dinosaurs and associated fauna

Bone histology of Mesozoic marine reptiles

Bone microanatomy and microstructure of extinct reptiles (incl. archosauromorphs, lepidosauromorphs and turtles)

Fossils from Aldabra Atoll

Modular and integrative skull and neck biomechanics of extinct marine reptiles with focus on non-plesiosaurian Sauropterygia

Dr. Elke Schneebeli-Hermann

WETTEST – when an exceptional Triassic climate change (CPE) triggers plant evolution in the (sub-)tropics