Forschungsschwerpunkte am
Institut für Paläontologie
der Universität Würzburg

Bivalves

Jurassic of Kachchh, India (Fürsich, Heinze)

Jaitly, A.K., Fürsich, F.T. & Heinze, M. 1995. Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India. IV. The bivalve fauna. Subclasses Palaeotaxadonta, Pteriomorphia and Isofilibranchia.- Beringeria 16: 147-247.

Pandey, D.K., Fürsich, F.T. & Heinze, M. 1996. Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, Western India. V. The bivalve fauna. Part II. Subclass Anomalodesmata.- Beringeria 18: 51-87.

Fürsich, F.T. & Heinze, M. 1998. Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, Western India. VI. The bivalve fauna. Part III. Subclass Palaeoheterodonta (Order Trigonioida).- Beringeria 21: 151-168.

Fürsich, F.T., Heinze, M. & Jaitly, A. 2000. Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India. VIII. The bivalve fauna.Part IV. Subclass Heterodonta.- Beringeria 27.

Jurassic of Tunisia (Holzapfel)

Holzapfel, S. 1997. Palökologie benthischer Faunengemeinschaften und Taxonomie der Bivalven im Jura von Südtunesien.- Beringeria 22: 3-199.

Jurassic of the eastern Pacific margin (Aberhan)

Aberhan, M. 1994. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia, and Isofilibranchia.- Beringeria 13: 3-115.

Aberhan, M. & Hillebrandt, A. von 1996. Taxonomy, ecology, and palaeobiogeography of Gervilleioperna (Gervilleiognoma) aurita n.subgen. n.sp. (Bivalvia) from the Middle Jurassic of northern Chile.- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 70: 79-96.

Aberhan, M. & Muster, H. 1997. Palaeobiology of Lower Jurassic bakevelliid bivalves from western Canada.- Palaeontology 40: 799-815.

Aberhan, M. & Pálfy, J. 1996. A low oxygen tolerant East Pacific flat clam (Posidonotis semiplicata) from the Lower Jurassic of the Canadian Cordillera.- Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33: 993-1006.

Trigonioida from Triassic and Jurassic (Muster)

Bakevelliidae (Muster)

Muster, H. 1995. Taxonomie und Palaeobiogeographie der Bakevelliidae (Bivalvia). - Beringeria 14

Aberhan, M. & Muster, H. 1997. Palaeobiology of Lower Jurassic bakevelliid bivalves from western Canada.- Palaeontology 40: 799-815.

Upper Triassic Nayband-Formation (Iran) (Hautmann).

Hautmann, M.: Taxonomy and phylogeny of Triassic cementing bivalves (families Prospondylidae, Plicatulidae, Dimyidae, and Ostreidae). - Palaeontology (in press).

Hautmann, M.: Taxonomie und Biogeographie der Muschelfauna der obertriassischen Nayband-Formation des östlichen Zentraliran. (Hautmann). - Beringeria 28 (in prep.).

Jurassic of China (Fürsich, Sha).

Sha, J., Fürsich, F. T., Smith, P. L. & Wan, L. 1998: Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia, and Isolfilibranchia (Bivalvia) from the Jurassic of the Tanggula Mountains, China. - Beringeria 21: 3-55.

Sha, J., Smith, P. L. & Fürsich, F. T.: New Jurassic Ostreoida (Bivalvia) from China (Tanggula Mountains, Qinghai-Xizang Plateau) and their paleobiogeographic context. - Journal of Paleontology (submitted).

Jurassic of Iran (Fürsich)

Cretaceous of northern Germany (Wilmsen, Niebuhr)

Wilmsen, M., Niebuhr, B. & Wood,C. J.: Early Cenomanian inoceramid bivalves from the Kronsberg syncline east of Hannover (northern Germany). - (in prep.).

 

Cephalopods

Jurassic ammonites (Seyed-Emami, Fürsich)

Seyed-Emami, K., Schairer, G., Fürsich, F. T., Wilmsen, M. & Majidifard, M. R.: First record of ammonites from the Badamu Formation at the Shotori Mountains (Central Iran). - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (in press).

Schairer, G., Seyed-Emami, K., Fürsich, F. T., Senowbari-Daryan, B., Aghanabati, S. A., Majidifard, M. R. 2000. Stratigraphy, facies analysis and ammonite fauna of the Qal'eh Dokhtar Formation (Middle-Upper Jurassic) at the type locality west of Boshrouyeh (east-central Iran). - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 216 (1): 35-66.

Seyed-Emami, K., Schairer, G., Aghanabati, S. A.,Fürsich, F. T.,Senowbari-Daryan, B., Majidifard, M. R. 1998. Cadomites aus der unteren Baghamshah-Formation (Oberbathon, Mittlerer Jura) SW Tabas (Zentraliran). - Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 38: 111-119.

Cretaceous ammonites (Niebuhr)

Niebuhr, B., Neumann, C. & Esser, K.: Upper Campanian to Lower Maastrichtian ammonites from the white Chalk of Kronsmoor (northern Germany). - Geologisches Jahrbuch (in prep.).

Cretaceous nautiloids (Wilmsen)

Wilmsen, M. 2000. Late Cretaceous nautilids from northern Cantabria, Spain. - Acta Geologica Polonica 50 (1): 29-43.

Wilmsen, M. & Esser, K.: Early Maastrichtian (Cretaceous) nautiloids from Kronsmoor, northern Germany. - Geologisches Jahrbuch (in prep.).

 

Corals

Pandey, D. K., Ahmad, F. & Fürsich, F. T. 2000. Middle Jurassic scleractinian corals from northwestern Jordan. - Beringeria 27: 3-29.

Pandey, D. K. & Fürsich, F. T.: Environmental distribution of scleractinian corals in the Juraussic of Kachchh, western India. - Journal of the Geological Society of India (in press).

 

Compiled works

The invertebrate fauna from the Jurassic of Jordan (Ahmad)

Ahmad, F. 1999. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the benthic macroinvertebrate fauna from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern Jordan. - Beringeria 23

Bivalves and gastropods from the Upper Jurassic of the Hildesheim area, Lower Saxony (Scholz)

 

Miscellanea

Gastropods

Jaitly, A. K., Szabo, J. & Fürsich, F. T. 2000. Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India. VII. The gastropod fauna. Part I. Pleurotomarioidea, Fissurelloidea, Trochoidea and Eucycloidea. - Beringeria 27: 31-61.

Trace fossils (Schlirf, Uchman, Fürsich)

Schlirf, M., Uchman, A. & Kümmel, M. 2000. Upper Triassic (Keuper) nonmarine trace fossils from the Haßberge area (Franconia, south-eastern Germany), - Paläontologische Zeitschrift (in press).

Schlirf, M. 2000. Upper Jurassic trace fossils from the Boulonnais (northern France). - Geologica et Palaeontologica 34 (in press).

Fürsich, F.T. 1998. Environmental distribution of trace fossils in the Jurassic of Kachchh (western India). - Fazies 39: 243-272.

Heterastridiidae (spherical hydrozoans) (Wilmsen)

Wilmsen, M.: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography, and autecology of the Mid-Cretaceous genus Parkeria Carpenter, 1870 (spherical hydrozoan). - (in prep.).

Sponges from the Jurassic of Kachchh (Fürsich)

Mehl, D. & Fürsich, F.T. 1997. Middle Jurassic Porifera from Kachchh, western India.- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 71: 19-33.

 

Lower Jurassic bivalve faunas of the East Pacific margin (Aberhan)

Aberhan, M. 1998. Paleobiogeographic patterns of pectinoid bivalves and the Early Jurassic tectonic evolution of western Canadian terranes.- Palaios 13: 129-148.

Aberhan, M. & Hillebrandt, A. von 1996. Taxonomy, ecology, and palaeobiogeography of Gervilleioperna (Gervilleiognoma) aurita n.subgen. n.sp. (Bivalvia) from the Middle Jurassic of northern Chile.- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 70: 79-96.

Aberhan, M. & Muster, H. 1997. Palaeobiology of Lower Jurassic bakevelliid bivalves from western Canada.- Palaeontology 40: 799-815.

Aberhan, M. & Pálfy, J. 1996. A low oxygen tolerant East Pacific flat clam (Posidonotis semiplicata) from the Lower Jurassic of the Canadian Cordillera.- Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33: 993-1006.

Jurassic bivalves of the Tethys and the Proto-Atlantic (Fürsich, Heinze)

Heinze, M. 1996. Paläobiogeographie jurassischer Muschelfaunen: Beziehung zwischen Süd- und Nordrand der Tethys.- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 70: 97-128.

Liu Chunlian, Heinze, M. & Fürsich, F.T. 1998. Bivalve provinces in the Proto-Atlantic and along the southern margin of the Tethys in the Jurassic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 137: 127-151.

Sha, J., Smith, P. L. & Fürsich, F. T.: New Jurassic Ostreoida (Bivalvia) from China (Tanggula Mountains, Qinghai-Xizang Plateau) and their paleobiogeographic context. - Journal of Paleontology (submitted).

Bakevelliidae (Muster)

Muster, H. 1995. Taxonomie und Palaeobiogeographie der Bakevelliidae (Bivalvia). - Beringeria 14

Upper Triassic bivalve fauna of eastern Iran (Hautmann)

Hautmann, M.: Taxonomie und Biogeographie der Muschelfauna der obertriassischen Nayband-Formation des östlichen Zentraliran. (Hautmann). - Beringeria 28 (in prep.).

Triassic and Jurassic Trigonioida (Muster)

 

Autecology of Jurassic bivalves (Aberhan)

Aberhan, M. & Hillebrandt, A. von 1996. Taxonomy, ecology, and palaeobiogeography of Gervilleioperna (Gervilleiognoma) aurita n.subgen. n.sp. (Bivalvia) from the Middle Jurassic of northern Chile.- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 70: 79-96.

Aberhan, M. & Muster, H. 1997. Palaeobiology of Lower Jurassic bakevelliid bivalves from western Canada.- Palaeontology 40: 799-815.

Aberhan, M. & Pálfy, J. 1996. A low oxygen tolerant East Pacific flat clam (Posidonotis semiplicata) from the Lower Jurassic of the Canadian Cordillera.- Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33: 993-1006.

Diversity analysis of Mesozoic benthic shelf ecosystems (Aberhan, Fürsich)

Aberhan, M. & Fürsich, F.T. 1997. Diversity analysis of Lower Jurassic bivalves of the Andean Basin and the Pliensbachian-Toarcian mass extinction.- Lethaia 29: 181-195.

McRoberts, C.A. & Aberhan, M. 1997. Marine diversity and sea-level changes: numerical tests for association using Early Jurassic bivalves.- Geologische Rundschau 86: 160-167.

Aberhan, M. & Fürsich, F. T. 2000. Mass origination versus mass extinction: the biological contribution to the Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction event. - Journal of the geological Society London 157: 55-60.

Benthos analysis and biofacies development in the Jurassic of Tunisia (Holzapfel)

Holzapfel, S. 1997. Palökologie benthischer Faunengemeinschaften und Taxonomie der Bivalven im Jura von Südtunesien.- Beringeria 22: 3-199.

Benthos analysis of Lower Jurassic macrofossils from SW-Europe (Berndt, Fürsich, Gahr, Scheuer)

Fürsich, F. T., Berndt, R., Scheuer, T. & Gahr, M.: Comparative ecological analysis of Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) benthic faunas from southern France and Spain. - Lethaia (in prep.).

Gahr, M.: Benthos analysis of the latest Pliensbachian to Middle Toarcian interval of the Iberian Peninsula (in prep.)

Benthos analysis and biofacies development in the Jurassic of western India (Fürsich, Gahr)

Fürsich, F.T. 1998. Environmental distribution of trace fossils in the Jurassic of Kachchh (western India). - Fazies 39: 243-272.

Drilling Predation

Kowalewski, M., Dulai, A. & Fürsich, F. T. 1998. A fossil record full of holes: The Phanerozoic history of drilling predation. - Geology 26: 1091-1094.

Palaeoecology of marginal marine depositional systems in the Upper Cretaceous of southern Jordan (Berndt)

Palecology of secondary hardgrounds in the Oxfordian of Normandy (France) (S. Schlirf)

Microfauna and brachiopods of the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India (S. Schlirf, M. Schlirf)

Facies analysis and geochemistry of the Lithographic Limestone of the Solnhofen area (Fürsich, Eichiner, Heim, Link, Park, Niebuhr)

 

Fürsich, F. T., Bottjer, D., Flynn, J., Jellinek, T., Piller, W. & Mosbrugger, V.: Paleontology in the 21th century. Paleobiology-Taphonomy. - Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe (in press).

Genesis of shell beds in der Upper Cretaceous of southern India (Fürsich)

Fürsich, F.T. & Pandey 1999. Genesis and environmental significance of Upper Cretaceous shell concentrations from the Cauvery Basin, southern India. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 137: 116-139.

 

Jurassic of southern Germany (Fürsich, Park)

Park, M.-H. & Fürsich, F. T.: Spectral evidence of orbitally mediated cyclic sedimentation in the Lower Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) Solnhofen Formation of the Southern franconian Alb, Germany. - Sedimentology (submitted).

Jurassic of Iran (Fürsich, Wilmsen)

Schairer, G., Seyed-Emami, K., Fürsich, F. T., Senowbari-Daryan, B., Aghanabati, S. A. & Majidifard, M. R. 2000. Stratigraphy, facies analysis and ammonite fauna of the Qal'eh Dokhtar Formation (Middle-Upper Jurassic) at the type locality west of Boshrouyeh (east-central Iran). - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 216 (1): 35-66.

Seyed-Emami, K., Fürsich, F. T. & Schairer, G.: Lithostratigraphy, ammonite faunas and palaeoenvironments of Middle Jurassic strata in North and Central Iran. - Newsletters on Stratigraphy (in press).

Jurassic of India (Fürsich, Pandey)

Fürsich, F. T., Pandey, D. K. & Callomon, J. H.: Litho- and biostratigraphic correlation of Jurassic sediments of the Kachchh Basin, northwestern India. - (in prep.).

Palaeontology, cyclostratigraphy and geochemistry of the Upper Cretaceous of northern Germany (Niebuhr)

Niebuhr, B. 1999. Cyclostratigraphic correlation of outcrops and electronic borehole measurements in Middle Campanian marl/limestone rhythmites of North Germany. - Beringeria 23: 47-54.

Niebuhr, B., Baldschuhn, R., Ernst, G., Walaszczyk, I., Weiss, W. & Wood, C. J. 1999. The Upper Cretaceous succession (Cenomanian-Santonian) of the Staffhorst Shaft, Lower Saxony, northern Germany: integrated biostratigraphic, lithostratigraphic and downhole geophysical log data. - Acta Geologica Polonica 49 (3): 175-213.

Niebuhr, B. & Joachimski, M. M.: Stable isotope and trace element geochemistry of Upper Cretaceous coccolith limestones and belemnite rostra (Middle Campanian, northern Germany). - Géobios (in prep.).

Niebuhr, B., Wiese, F. & Wilmsen, M.: The cored borehole Konrad 101 (Salzgitter area): a key section for the Cenomanian to Lower Coniacian of eastern Lower Saxony. - Newsletters on Stratigraphy (in prep.).

Niebuhr, B. & Weiss, W.: Stable isotope geochemistry and foraminifera from the white Chalk of Kronsmoor (Campanian-Maastrichtian, northern Germany). - Geologisches Jahrbuch (in prep.).

Sequence stratigraphy of marine carbonate depositional systems (Wilmsen)

Wiese, F. & Wilmsen, M. 1999. Sequence stratigraphy in the Cenomanian to Campanian of the North Cantabrian Basin (Cantabria, N-Spain). - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 212 (1-3): 131-173.

Wilmsen, M. 2000. Evolution and demise of a mid-Cretaceous carbonate shelf: the Altamira Limestones (Cenomanian) of northern Cantabria (Spain). - Sedimentary Geology 133 (3-4): 195-226.

Event stratigraphy

Wilmsen, M. 1999. The Cretaceous belemnite Neohibolites ultimus (d'Orbigny, 1845): Its occurrence and significance in the Cenomanian of the North Cantabrian Basin (northern Spain). - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1999 (5): 295-311.

 

Jurassic of Iran

Fürsich, F. T., Wilmsen, M. & Seyed-Emami, K.: Middle/Upper Jurassic carbonate platform - basin transect: The Esfandiar and Qal'eh Dokhtar formations in the Shotori Mountains, east central Iran. - (in prep.).

Jurassic of Morocco

Wilmsen, M., Neuweiler, F. & Mehdi, M.: Microfacies analysis of the Liassic series in the Central High Atlas, Morocco. - (in prep.).

Cretaceous of Spain

Wilmsen, M. 2000. Evolution and demise of a mid-Cretaceous carbonate shelf: the Altamira Limestones (Cenomanian) of northern Cantabria (Spain). - Sedimentary Geology 133 (3-4): 195-226.