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Research topics
- Post-Palaeozoic coral taxonomy, systematics, evolution, distribution, diversity, and biostratigraphy
- Database application and data visualization in palaeontology
- Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of nerineid gastropods (not much progress because of too many coral faunas sent to me)
- Taxonomy of Early Cretaceous Orbitolinid Foraminifera (Data base)
- Cretaceous ... regional geology, palaeontology, stratigraphy and facies
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Research subjects
- Description of Mesozoic/Cenozoic coral faunas from here, there and everywhere
- Taxonomic revision of various Cretaceous coral families down to the genus level
- Taxonomic revision of various Cretaceous coral genera down to the species level
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Works in progress
Publications on Cretaceous coral faunas and revisions of coral families/genera from all over the world are always in preparation, submitted and in press. These are the topics I am currently working on:
- The Hauterivian coral fauna of the Paris Basin (France) is envisaged as a monographic work. Large "monolithic" books became more important to me during the last years.
- Early Cretaceous coral faunas from Mexico (Sonora, Puebla, Baja California). Partly carried out by my students.
- Large coral faunas from the Albian and Cenomanian of Spain now under preparation for publishing.
- More and more Paleogene coral faunas, currently from the Alps (Germany), Mexico, and Northern Spain.
- Late Cretaceous to Oligocene coral faunas of Costa Rica (carried out as a COVID compatible masters project by a student)
- Late Jurassic coral faunas from Saal and Nattheim (both southern Germany) are under consideration.
People often ask me whether I can determine coral samples for them. At least I can try. Since the amount of the samples increased in the last years, I kindly ask you to lookup these instructions. - Other persons ask me whether we can publish a coral fauna together. Of course we can. Please lookup the procedure.
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Publications (published or in press)
Do not hesitate to ask for PDFs. PDFs of free articles are linked in the above pages.
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Software development
- PaleoTax/Database – database to record taxonomic, geographic, stratigraphic data. Newest version 2.5.2 was published May 2023.
- PalCol – application for palaeontological collections. Service Release 8 was published in May 2021.
- Oliva – application for extant marine material, designated for mollusks. Service Release 4 was published in May 2023. It comes with a detailed manual.
- PaleoTax/Map – PaleoTax GIS extension to plot localities or taxa
- PaleoTax/Graph – PaleoTax Graphic extension to visualize results of data analysis. Version 2.5 from May 2023 was improved, and the manual was extended.
- PaleoTax/Measure – programme to measure two dimensional fossils (and count things like septa or pores or leafs) and calculate average, standard deviation, first interval etc. - Current version is 1.8 that was released in May 2022 including a new manual. There is also a manual in the German language for version 1.6.
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Teaching
- Invertebrate palaeontology
- Micropalaeontology and microfacies
- Research methods in palaeontology (short course)
- Databasing in palaeontology (short course)
- Scleractinian coral morphology, methods, taxonomy (short course)
- Database programming (short course)
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Clases
- Paleontología de invertebrados
- Micropaleontología y ambiente
- Metodología de investigacón en paleontología (curso corto)
- Base de datos en paleontología (curso corto)
- Escleractinias - morfología, métodos, taxonomía (curso corto)
- Programación de base de datos (curso corto)
Curso corto (25h) Junio de 2025 en la Facultad de Ciencias en la CDMX – Evolución, morfología, taxonomía y metodología de los corales post paleozoicos (Scleractinia).
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Students
I work with students (B.S., M.S., PhD) on the following topics
- Fossil and extant coral taxonomy
- Extant marine mollusks (taxonomy, morphometry)
- Invertebrate palaeontology and micropalaeontology
- Biostratigraphy
- Statistics in biology, palaeontology and geology
Postgraduate students need to inscribe in the UNAM (geology) or the Universidad de Sonora (biology) and I must be principal advicer. My university does not recognise my role as external director or advicer.
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Estudiantes
Trabajo con estudiantes (Licenciatura, Maestría, Doctorado) en los campos siguentes
- Taxonomía de corales fósiles y recientes
- Moluscos marinos (taxonomía, morfometría)
- Paleontología de invertebrados y micropaleontología
- Bioestratigrafía
- Estadística en biología, paleontología y geología
Estudiantes del posgrado deben de inscribir se en la UNAM (posgrado de ciencias de la tierra) o en la Unison (posgrado de biología) y yo debo estar el director principal. La UNAM no reconoce mi papel como director externo.
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List of students - who have worked / are working with me, and on what.
Informaciones para estudiantes (estancia de investigación, práctica profesional, servicio social, tesis).
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Miscellaneous
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Where we can probably see next time ...
- Puebla, Mexico, March 2025.
- ... and in the backyard of my house in Hermosillo.
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