Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments - Special Issues

Special Issues 2024

Pre-Quaternary maar/volcanogenic lakes as Konservat Lagerstätten–Messel and beyond
Guest Editors: Dieter Uhl, Michael Wuttke, Krister Smith, Sonja Wedmann, Thomas Lehmann

The Rhenish Massif: More than 150 years of research in a Variscan mountain chain, part II
Guest Editors: Sven Hartenfels, Christoph Hartkopf-Fröder, Peter Königshof

Special Issues 2022

The Miocene Tagay locality of Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia) – a multidisciplinary approach
Guest Editors: Gudrun Daxner-Höck, Alexander Shchetnikov

The Rhenish Massif: More than 150 years of research in a Variscan mountain chain
Guest Editors: Sven Hartenfels, Christoph Hartkopf-Froeder, Peter Königshof

Special Issues 2021
Global review of the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary
Guest Editors: Markus Aretz, Carlo Corradini 

Palaeobotanical contributions in honour of Volker Mosbrugger
Guest Editors: Dieter Uhl, Angela A. Bruck, Torsten Utescher
See also Senckenberg’s press release.

Special Issue 2020
The drowning swamp of Gračanica (Bosnia-Herzegovina) - a diversity hotspot from the middle Miocene in the Bugojno Basin
Guest Editors: Ursula B Göhlich, Oleg Mandic

Special Issues 2019
Devonian palaeoecosystems and palaeoenvironments of South China
Guest Editors: W. Qie, K. Liang, P. Königshof

Taking the Orient Express? The role of Anatolia in mediterranean Neogene palaeobiogeography
Guest Editors: Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Serdar Mayda, Tanju Kaya

Special Issue 2018
Jurassic biodiversity and terrestrial environments (Guest Editors: Sam M. Slater, Evelyn Kustatscher, Vivi Vajda)

Special Issues 2017
Climate change and biodiversity patterns in the mid-Palaeozoic (Guest Editors: Bernard Mottequin, Ladislav Slavík, Peter Königshof)

Additional contributions to the Special Issue: Climate change and biodiversity pattern in the mid-Palaeozoic: Bahrami et al.: Conodont biostratigraphy of the Kesheh and Dizlu sections, and the age range of the Bahram Formation in central Iran

Additional contributions to the Special Issue: Climate change and biodiversity pattern in the mid-Palaeozoic: Brett et al.: Litho-, bio-, and sequence stratigraphy of the Boyle-Portwood Succession (Middle Devonian, Central Kentucky, USA)

The Valley of Lakes in Mongolia, a key area of Cenozoic mammal evolution and stratigraphy (Guest editors: Gudrun Daxner-Höck, Ursula B. Göhlich)

Special Issues 2016
The Late Miocene Maragheh mammal fauna; results of recent multidisciplinary research (Guest Editors: Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi, Mikael Fortelius)

Contributions in Honour of Zbyněk Roček (Guest Editors: J. D. Gardner, T. Přikryl)

Special Issues 2015
Old worlds, new ideas. A tribute to Albert van der Meulen (Guest Editors: Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes, Wilma Wessels)

The Fossil-Lagerstätte Enspel – reconstructing the palaeoenvironment with new data on fossils and geology (Guest Editors: M. Wuttke, T. Schindler, K. T. Smith)

Special Issues 2014
Green planet – 400 million years of terrestrial floras. Papers in honour of JHA van Konijnenburg-van Cittert (Guest Editors: E. Kustatscher, L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, H. Kerp)

The Sarmatian vertebrate locality Gratkorn, Styrian Basin (Guest Editors: Madelaine Böhme, Martin Gross, Jérôme Prieto)

Additional contribution to the above-mentioned special issue: Made et al. (Taxonomic study of the pigs (Suidae, Mammalia) from the late Middle Miocene of Gratkorn (Austria, Styria)

Special Issues 2013
Dorn-Dürkheim 1, Germany: a highly diverse Turolian fauna from mid-latitude Europe (Guest Editors: J.L. Franzen; M. Pickford)

Mesozoic and Cenozoic Lissamphibian and Squamate assemblages of Laurasia (Guest Editors: J.D. Gardner; R.L. Nydam)

Special Issues 2012
Taphonomic processes in terrestrial and marine environments (Guest Editors: M. Wuttke, A. G. Reisdorf)

Additional contribution to above special issue: Deciphering taphonomic processes in the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming (J. Hellawell, P.J. Orr)

Proceedings of the 9th EAVP Meeting, Heraklion 2011 (Guest Editors: G. Iliopoulos, C. Meyer, E. Frey, E. Buffetaut, J. Liston, A. Ösi)

Messel and the terrestrial Eocene – Proceedings of the 22nd Senckenberg Conference (Guest Editors: T. Lehmann, S.F.K. Schaal)

Special Issues 2010
Triassic-Jurassic biodiversity, ecosystems, and climate in the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China (Guest Editors: T. Martin, G. Sun, V. Mosbrugger)

Fossil-Lagerstätte Enspel - exceptional preservation in an Upper Oligocene maar (Guest Editors: M. Wuttke, D. Uhl, T. Schindler)

Additional contribution to above special issue: Amphibia of Enspel (Late Oligocene, Germany) (Zbyněk Roček, Michael Wuttke)