Prof. Dr. Hugo Bucher - Paleontology, Paleoenvironment, Paleoclimate, Extinction, Recoverymore information

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Current research projects

Project leader	Project title
Bucher	The onset of the Early Triassic biotic recovery
Bucher Frisk	Benthic faunas from the basal Triassic microbial limestone
Bucher Jiang	Triassic ammonoids and marine reptiles from the Eastern and Western Tethys: comparative biochronology, paleobiogeography and osteology
Schaltegger Bucher	Establishing globally valid tie points for intercalibration of biochronologic and radioisotopic timescales between the latest Permian and middle Jurassic using high-precision U-Pb dating of volcanic ash beds

Completed research projects

Project leader	Project title
Brinkmann	The Early and Middle Triassic biotic recovery of marine Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes: Diversity, palaeogeography and palaeoenvironments
Bucher	Evolution of late Early Triassic ammonoid faunas and climatic/oceanographic constraints
	Global warming and biotic responses in deep time: insights from Cretaceous ammonoids
	Reconstructing ammonoid phylogeny by means of morphometric analyses of developmental trajectories.
	Growth and shape of molluscan shells: experiments and models
	Evolution of ammonoids and the Cenomanian-Turonian biotic crisis
	Earliest benthic faunas and paleoceanography following the Permian- Triassic mass extinction in the South China block
Hautmann	Recovery of benthic marine communities after the end-Permian mass extinction event: a synecological approach
Klug	Preservation of primarily organic tissues and soft-tissue attachment structures in molluscs from the German epicontinental Triassic
	Origin of an important clade: Stratigraphy, Evolution and Palaeoenvironment of the Early Ammonoidea
	Coleoid beaks from the Upper Jurassic of Germany
	Palaeoecology, fluctuations in conch morphology, palaeobiogeography, extinctions and immigrations of Triassic cephalopods from the Germanic Basin
Korn	Taxonomy and Palaeogeography of Early Carboniferous Ammonoids from northern Africa
Schaltegger	Geochronological calibration of the Early Triassic biotic recovery by means of high-precision U/Pb zircon dating of volcanic ash layers from south China.
	Precise and accurate dating of periods of biotic crisis and recovery in the Earth's history using zircon U-Pb dating of volcanic ash beds.