| August 2008 | Courses SS 2008: The Course Phylogeny of Vertebrates, Part 2: Mammalia (lecture given by M. Voss & S. Klug) is postponed to October (06.-10.10.2008). |
| August 2008 | New publication: Juergen Kriwet analysed the dental pattern of the rare Jurassic pycnodontiform fish, Athrodon wittei. |
| August 2008 | New publication: Kerin Claeson and co-authors analysed the osteology of one of the smallest catfishes from South America, Sarcoglanis simplex. more... |
| July 2008 | International Meeting on the "Evolution and Diversity of Chondrichthyan" in Warsaw: Juergen Kriwet and members of FSR working group (Stefanie Klug, Kerin Claeson, Katja Ermer and Niko Hoffmann) present different topics on extant and extinct sharks and rays. |
| July 2008 | New publication: Juergen Kriwet defined a new species of the extinct bullhead shark Paracestracion viohli sp. nov. (Neoselachii, Heterodontiformes) from the Upper Jurassic of S Germany. more... |
| July 2008 | New publication: Stefanie Klug identified the Late Jurassic neoselachian Macrourogaleus Fowler, 1947 as member of basal group of neosleachians, the Palaeospinacidae. more... |
| July 2008 | New publication: Kerin M. Claeson analysed the synarcual in the California Ray, Raja inornata. more... |
| June 2008 | New publication: Juergen Kriwet and Thomas Hecht (Department of Ichthyology and Fischeries Sciences of the Rhodes University in South Africa) analysed the early evolution and diversification of rattail fishes (Gadiformes) and describe the first rattail fish skull from the Eocene of Antarctica with otoliths preserved in situ. more... |
| June 2008 | Jürgen Kriwet gives a lecture on extinction patterns of Devonian fishes at the Devonian/Carboniferous in the Blockhaus, Dresden on June, 6th. |
| May 2008 | New publication: Juergen Kriwet and Stefanie Klug analysed diversity and biogeography patterns of Late Jurassic neoselachians. Published in Cavin, L., Longbottom, A. & Richter, M. (eds): Fishes and the Break-uo of Pangaea. Geological Society of London, Special Publications 295: 55-69. |
| May 2008 | New publication: Björn Stelbrink and co-authors published the first record of Cobitis puncticulata from Europe. (Folia Zoologica 57: 16-19). |
| May 2008 | New publication: Nicolas Straube and co-authors analysed the taxonomic value of dental characters in the extant Giant Latern Shark Etmopterus baxteri. more... |
| March 2008 | Denise Niewitz is joining our research group and starts a MSc thesis on Cenomanian neoselachians from NW Germany |
| March 2008 | Heike Mewis successfully finished her MSc thesis on the systematic position of 'Isurus' escheri. |
| February 2008 | Jürgen Kriwet is awarded a DFG grant for the project "Evolution and systematic position of "Carcharodon" megalodon and the origin of the extant "Great White" Carcharodon carcharias" |
| February 2008 | Kerin Claeson, currently PhD student, is awarded a Dorothy Ogden Carsey Memorial Scholarship ($1000). |
| January 2008 | Kerin Claeson is joining our research group |
| January 2008 | New publication: New group of basal neoselachians defined by Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet more... |
| January 2008 | New publication: First fossil three-level vertebrate trophic chain discovered by Jürgen Kriwet and co-authors more... |
| Dezember 2007 | Stefanie Klug, currently PhD student, is awarded a DFG grant for a one year extension of the project "Environmental controls and distribution of Late Jurassic neoselachians from the Iberian Basin (NE Spain) in the European context" |