Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
GeoZentrum Nordbayern
Forschungsschwerpunkt Paläontologie
Address
Löwenichstraße 28
91054 Erlangen
Deutschland
GERiT
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91054 Erlangen
Projects
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Completed projects
entwicklung eines vergleichenden faziesmodells fuer die jurassischen plattform-karbonate in westmarokko und im nordwestafrikanischen off-shore-bereich
(Applicant
Flügel, Erik
)
Radiolarian and sedimentological studies on Neogene sediments of the Benguela Upwelling System
(Applicant
Lazarus, David
)
Radiolarian and sedimentological studies on Neogene sediments of the Benguela Upwelling System
(Applicant
Diester-Haass, Liselotte
)
Radiolarien-Diagenese in der Decollement-Zone des Inselbogens der Kleinen Antillen
(Applicant
Flügel, Erik
)
Radiolarien-Ereignisse im Tertiär von Barbados und des Inselbogens der Kleinen Antillen
(Applicant
Flügel, Erik
)
Zeolith-Umkristallisation der Radiolarien in der Decollement-Zone des Inselbogens der Kleinen Antillen
(Applicant
Flügel, Erik
)
Research Grants
Current projects
Implementing climate proxy data from coralline algae in climate model evaluation: a Southern Hemisphere case study of New Zealand
(Applicants
Mölg, Thomas
;
Teichert, Sebastian
)
Completed projects
Benthic (bryozoan) response to Silurian climatic changes
(Applicant
Munnecke, Axel
)
Biogeographic and community response of reef corals to Pleistocene interglacial warming
(Applicant
Kießling, Wolfgang
)
CO2, organic carbon burial, and global climate change in the Wenlock (Silurian):waired 13 Ccarb and 13 Corg analyses of marine carbonates
(Applicant
Munnecke, Axel
)
Die Kreide-Tertiär-Grenze in Patagonien - Paläontologische und sedimentologische Muster im globalen Vergleich
(Applicant
Kießling, Wolfgang
)
Evolutionary rates of zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate corals and their controlling factors
(Applicant
Kießling, Wolfgang
)
Exploring biodiversity evolution in tropical seas based on comparisons of the Triassic fauna of the Cassian Formation with modern faunas
(Applicants
Kießling, Wolfgang
;
Nützel, Alexander
)
Flachmarine Ostracoden-Assoziationen im Mittel- und Oberkarbon des Donets Beckens/Ukraine und Timans/Rußland und ihre Kontrolle durch Paläo-Umweltfaktoren
(Applicant
Fohrer, Beate
)
Microfacies and stable isotope geochemistry of Gotland’s picture stones – a new approach to solving the problem of the origin of the raw material
(Applicant
Munnecke, Axel
)
Obertriadische Riff-Faunen in Südanatolien: Systematische Paläontologie und Biodiversität
(Applicant
Senowbari-Daryan, Baba
)
Palaeoenvironmental, palaeogeographic, and palaeoclimatic signals of a condensed horizon: The Upper Callovian-Oxfordian Dhosa Oolite of the Kachchh Basin, western India
(Applicant
Fürsich, Franz Theodor
)
Paleobiodiversity and community structures of Lagerstätten during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age and the response of the marine benthic invertebrate fauna to global cooling
(Applicant
Seuß, Barbara
)
Revision der corallinen Schwämme (Inozoida, Sphinctozoida) für Neuauflage Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology - Part E (Porifera)
(Applicant
Senowbari-Daryan, Baba
)
Searching for biological fingerprints and grain alteration patterns in Devonian and Carboniferous microbial facies - examples from the Bohemian Massif
(Applicant
Munnecke, Axel
)
Sedimentology, depositional sequences and fauna of upper cretaceous nonmarine, marginal marine, and marine deposits of southern Jordan
(Applicant
Krawinkel, Hannelore
)
Speziation oder Ökophänotypie? Analyse morphologischer Veränderungen oberjurassischer Bivalven aus dem Lusitanischen Becken (Portugal)
(Applicant
Fürsich, Franz Theodor
)
Speziation oder Ökophänotypie? Analyse morphologischer Veränderungen oberjurassischer Bivalven aus dem Lusitanischen Becken (Portugal)
(Applicant
Werner, Winfried
)
Steuernde Faktoren der Klima-Entwicklung im Silur: Ein kombiniert palynologischer und sedimentologisch-geochemischer Ansatz
(Applicant
Freiwald, André
)
Stratigraphische, paläoökologische, paläontologische und fazielle Bearbeitung eines obertriassischen-liassischen? Riffes im Zentraliran
(Applicant
Senowbari-Daryan, Baba
)
Taphonomie und Milieusignifikanz von Bivalven aus dem Mitteljura des Ostseeraums
(Applicant
Hinz-Schallreuter, Ingelore
)
Testing the role of reefs as a source of evolutionary novelty in the oceans
(Applicant
Kießling, Wolfgang
)
The Kashafrud Basin (NE Iran) during the Jurassic: A key for understanding the post-collisional history of the Iran Plate
(Applicant
Fürsich, Franz Theodor
)
The role of articulate brachiopods in Mesozoic benthic communities
(Applicant
Fürsich, Franz Theodor
)
The Silurian ''Mulde Event'' on the shelf of the East European Craton: chronology of events and causal relationships
(Applicant
Munnecke, Axel
)
Three dimensional geological modeling and survey-grade geospatial documentation of GSSPs: Using the Silurian System as a case study for the Geologic Time Scale
(Applicant
Munnecke, Axel
)
Ultrastructural evolution of conodont skeletal tissues - reconstruction using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)
(Applicant
Munnecke, Axel
)
Untertriadische Riff-Assoziationen er Tethys am Westrand der Anatolischen Platte (Karaburun-Halbinsel, Türkei)
(Applicant
Senowbari-Daryan, Baba
)
Verbreitungsmuster und Riffbildungspotential von Korallenfaunen auf dem arabischen Schelf vom oberen Paläozän bis zum mittleren Miozän
(Applicant
Bernecker, Michaela
)
Zyklenanalyse in oberjurassischen Plattenkalken der Fränkischen Alb (Bayern)
(Applicant
Fürsich, Franz Theodor
)
Research Units
Current projects
FOR 2332: Temperature-related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions (TERSANE)
(Spokesperson
Kießling, Wolfgang
)
Completed projects
Biotic consequences of temperature-related stresses across temporal scales
(Applicants
Kießling, Wolfgang
;
Pörtner, Hans-Otto
)
Controls on global biodiversity patterns and skeletal mineralizsation during the Cambrian radiation
(Applicant
Kießling, Wolfgang
)
Coordination Funds
(Applicant
Kießling, Wolfgang
)
CoralTrace – A new approach to understanding climate-induced reef crises
(Applicant
Kießling, Wolfgang
)
Response of Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian-Toarcian) benthic marine faunas from south-western Europe to temperature-related stresses (EvoBiv)
(Applicant
Aberhan, Martin
)
Size reductions during hyperthermal events: early warnings of environmental deterioration or signs of extinction? (EarlyWarn)
(Applicants
Kießling, Wolfgang
;
Korn, Dieter
)
Major Research Instrumentation
Completed projects
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