Peer-reviewed publications of the palaeontology (since 2004)

2010

López Correa, M., Montagna, P., Vendrell-Simón, B., McCulloch, M. & Taviani, M. (2010): Stable isotopes (d18O and d13C), trace and minor element compositions of Recent scleractinians and Last Glacial bivalves at the Santa Maria di Leuca deep-water coral province, Ionian Sea. Deep-Sea Research II, 57: 471-486.

Nützel, A., Joachimski, M. & López Correa, M. (2010): Seasonal climatic fluctuations in the Late Triassic tropics - High-resolution oxygen isotope record from aragonitic bivalve shells (Cassian Formation, Northern Italy). In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 285: 194-204.

Rashidi, K. & Senowbari-Daryan, B. (2010): Dasycladales from the Permian Jamal Formation of Shotori Mountains, northeast Iran. Part I: Imperiella Elliott & Süssli, Nanjinoporlla Mu & Elliott, Tabasoporella nov. gen., and Pseudotabasoporella nov. gen. Facies, 56: 111-137

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Chablais, J., & Martini, R. (2010): Upper Triassic Crustacean microcoprolites from  Kyushu and Shikoku Islands, Japan. Journal Paleontology, 84 (1): 98-108

Taviani, M., López Correa, M., Zibrowius, H., Montagna, P., McCulloch, M. & Ligi, M. (2007): Last Glacial deep water corals from the Red Sea.- In: George, R.Y. & Cairns, S. (eds.), Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystems: Biology and Geology, Bulletin of Marine Science 81 (3), 361-370

2009

Brunet, M.-F., Wilmsen, M. & Granath, J. (2009): South Caspian to central Iran basins. – Geological Society London, Special Publication, 312, 344pp.

Brunet, M.-F., Granath, J. & Wilmsen, M. (2009): South Caspian, northern and central Iran sedimentary basins: Introduction. – In: Brunet, M.-F., Wilmsen, M. & Granath, J. (eds), South Caspian to central Iran basins. Geological Society London, Special Publication, 312, 1-6.

Bucur, I.I., Munnecke, A., Granier, B. & Yan, J. (2009): Remarks on the Permian dasycladalean alga Sinoporella leei YABE, 1949. GEOBIOS 42, 221-231.

Ernst, A. & Munnecke, A. (2009): A Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) reefal bryozoan fauna from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: taxonomy and chemostratigraphy. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 46, 207-229.

Ernst, A., Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Rashidi, K. (2009): Rhabdomesid and cystoporid bryozoans from the Permian of Deh-e Mohammad, Shotori Mountains (north-eastern Iran). Geobios 42, 133-140.

Ernst, A., Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Rashidi, K. (2009): Bryozoa from the Surmaq Formation (Permian) of the Hambast Mountains, south of Adadeh, central Iran. FACIES 55.4: 595-608.

Freiwald A, Beuck L, Rüggeberg A, Taviani M, Hebbeln D (2009): The white coral community in the central Mediterranean Sea Sea revealed by ROV surveys. In: Oceanography 22(1), 58-74.

Fürsich, F.T., Wilmsen, M., Seyed-Emami, K. & Majidifard, M.R. (2009): The Mid-Cimmerian tectonic event (Bajocian) in the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran: Evidence of the break-up unconformity of the South Caspian Basin. – In: Brunet, M.-F., Wilmsen, M. & Granath, J.W. (eds.), South Caspian to Central Iran basins. - Geological Society London, Special Publication 312, 189-203.

Fürsich, F.T., Wilmsen, M., Seyed-Emami, K. & Majidifard, M.R. (2009): Lithostratigraphy of the Upper Triassic-Middle Jurassic Shemshak Group of northern Iran. – In: Brunet, M.-F., Wilmsen, M. & Granath, J.W. (eds.), South Caspian to Central Iran basins. - Geological Society London, Special Publication 312, 129-160.

Granier, B., Feist, M., Hennessey, E., Bucur, I.I., Senowbari-Daryan, B. (2009): The IMAM case. Additional investigation of a micropaleontological fraud. Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology CG2009_A04 (2009), 14pp.

Munnecke, A. & Männik, P. (2009): New biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data from the Chicotte Formation (Llandovery, Anticosti Island, Laurentia) compared with the Viki core (Estonia, Baltica).- Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58(3), 159-169.

Roberts, J.M., Wheeler, A., Freiwald, A. & Cairns, S. (2009): Cold-Water Corals. Cambridge University Press, 334 pp., Cambridge.

Schneider, S., Fürsich, F.T. & Werner, W. 2009. Sr-isotope stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic of central Portugal (Lusitanian Basin) based on oyster shells. International Journal of Earth Science 98: 1949-1970.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Cacciatore, M.S. (2009): The genus Palaeolituonella (Foraminifer) and description of Palaeolitunella angulata nov. sp. from Upper Triassic of limestones of the Tethys . Journal of Alpine Geology 5: 51-57.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. (2009): Murania? leipnerae nov. sp., a new sclerosponge from the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation of Shotori Mountins, northeast Iran. J. Alpine Geol. 50, 31-38.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Iannace, A. & Zamparelli V. (2009): Discosiphonella minima Senowbari-Daryan & Link and Solenolmia? parva n. sp. ("Sphinctozoa", Porifera) from the Upper Triassic (Norian of the souther Apennines (Northern Calavria/Italy).- Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 115(2): 199-208.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Stanley, G. D. Jr. (2009): Stromatomorpha californica Smith: A distinctive Upper Triassic Pandemic shallow-water re-adapted Demosponge from America and the Tethys. J. Paleontology 83(5), 783-793.

Servais, T., Harper, D.A.T., Li, J., Munnecke, A., Owen, A.W. & Sheehan, P.M. (2009): Understanding the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): influences of paleogeography, paleoclimate or paleoecology?- GSA Today 19(4/5), 4-10.

Servais, T., Munnecke, A. & Versteegh, G.J.M. (2009): Silurian calcispheres (Calcitarcha) of Gotland (Sweden): Comparisons with calcareous dinoflagellates. C.R. Palevol, 8, 527-534.

Seuß, B., Nützel, A., Mapes, R.H. & Yancey, T.E. (2009): Facies and fauna of the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry deposit: a review and new data on an important Palaeozoic fossil Lagerstätte with aragonite preservation. FACIES 55.4: 609-645.

Seyed-Emami, K., Fürsich, F.T., Wilmsen, M., Majidifard, M.R. & Shekarifard, A. 2009. Upper Triassic ammonoids from the Ekrasar Formation (Shemshak Group) of northern Alborz, Iran. Rivista Italiana di Stratigrafia e Paleontologia 115: 189-198.

Taheri, J., Fürsich, F.T. & Wilmsen, M. (2009): Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and geodynamic significance of the Upper Bajocian-Bathonian Kashafrud Formation (NE Iran). - In: Brunet, M.-F., Wilmsen, M. & Granath, J.W. (eds.), South Caspian to Central Iran basins. - Geological Society London, Special Publication 312, 205-218.

Taviani, M., Dimech, M., Mifsud, C., Freiwald, A., Harasewych, M. G. & Oliveiro, M. (2009): Coralliophilinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae) associated withdeep-water coral banks in the Mediterranean. The Nautilus 123(3):106–112.

Titschack, J., Radke, U., Freiwald, A. (2009): Dating and characterization of polymorphic transformation of aragonite to calcite in Pleistocene bivalves from Rhodes (Greece) by combined shell microstructure, stable isotope, and electron spin resonance study. Journal of Sedimentary Research 79, 332-346.

Versteegh, G., Servais, T., Streng, M., Munnecke, A. & Vachard, D. (2009). A discussion and proposal concerning the use of the term calcispheres. Palaeontology 52(2), 343-348.

Weaver PPE, Boetius A, Danovaro R, Freiwald A, Gunn V, Heussner S, Morato T, Schewe I, van den Howe S (2009): The future of integrated deep-sea Research in Europe—The HERMIONE Project. Oceanography 22, 177-191.

Wienberg, C., Hebbeln, D., Fink, H.G., Mienis, F., Dorschel, B., Vertino, A., López Correa, M. & Freiwald, A. (2009): Scleractinian cold-water corals in the Gulf of Cádiz - First clues about their spatial and temporal distribution. Deep-Sea Research I 56, 1873-1893.

Wilmsen, M., Fürsich, F.T. & Taheri, J. (2009): The Shemshak Group (Lower – Middle Jurassic) of the Binalud Mountains, NE Iran: stratigraphy, facies and geodynamic implications. – In: Brunet, M.-F., Wilmsen, M. & Granath, J. (eds), South Caspian to central Iran basins. Geological Society London, Special Publication, 312, 175-188; London..

Wilmsen, M., Fürsich, F.T., Seyed-Emami, K. & Majidifard, M.R. (2009): An overview of the lithostratigraphy and facies development of the Jurassic System on the Tabas Block, east-central Iran. – In: Brunet, M.-F., Wilmsen, M. & Granath, J. (eds), South Caspian to central Iran basins. Geological Society London, Special Publication, 312, 323-344.

Wilmsen, M., Fürsich, F.T., Seyed-Emami, K., Majidifard, M.R. & Taheri, J. (2009): The Cimmerian orogeny in northern Iran: tectono-stratigraphic evidence from the foreland. – Terra Nova, 21, 211-218.

Wilmsen, M., Fürsich, F.T., Seyed-Emami, K., Majidifard, M.R. 2009. The Cimmerian Orogeny in Iran – a foreland perspective. Terra Nova 21: 211-218.

Wisshak, M., López Correa, M., Gofas, S., Salas, C., Taviani, M., Jakobsen, J. & Freiwald, A. (2009) Shell architecture, element composition, and stable isotope signature of the giant deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii sp. n. from the NE Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I 56, 374-404.

Wisshak, M., Neumann, C., Jakobsen, J. & Freiwald, A. (2009): The ‘living-fossil community’ of the cyrtocrinoid Cyathidium foresti and the deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii (Azores Archipelago). Palaeontology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271, 77-83.

Wisshak, M., López Correa, M., Zibrowius, H., Jakobsen, J. & Freiwald, A. (2009): Skeletal reorganisation affects geochemical signals, exemplified in the stylasterid hydrocoral Errina dabneyi (Azores Archipelago). Marnine Ecology Progress Series 397: 197-208.

2008

Alroy, J. Aberhan, M., Bottjer, D.J., Foote, M. Fürsich, F.T., Harries, P.J., Handy, A.J.W., Holland, S.M., Ivany, L.C. et al. (2008): Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science 321, 97-100.

Beuck, L., Wisshak, M., Munnecke, A. & Freiwald, A. (2008): A giant boring trace in a Silurian stro­matoporoid analysed by computer tomography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53, 149-160.

Beuck, L., López Correa, M. & Freiwald, A. (2008): Biogeographical distribution of Hyrrokkin (Rosalinidae, Foraminifera) and its host-specific morphological and textural trace variability. In: Wisshak, M. & Tapanila, L. (Eds.): Current Developments in Bioerosion. Berlin, Springer, 329-360.

Birgel, D., Himmler, T., Freiwald, A. & Peckmann, J. (2008): A new constraint on the antiquity of anaerobic oxidation of methane: Late Pennsylvanian seep limestones from southern Namibia. Geology 36, 543-546.

Bromley, R.G., Beuck, L. & Taddei Ruggiero, E. (2008): Endolithic sponge versus terebratulid brachiopod, Pleistocene, Italy: accidental symbiosis, bioclaustration and deformity. In: Wisshak, M. & Tapanila, L. (Eds.): Current Developments in Bioerosion. Berlin, Springer, 361-368.

Cramer, B.D. & Munnecke, A. (2008): Early Silurian positive d¹³C excursions and their relationship to glaciations, sea-level changes and extinction events: Discussion. Geological Journal 43, 517-519.

Davies, A.J., Wisshak, M., Orr, J.C. & Roberts, J.M. (2008): Predicting suitable habitat for the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia). Deep-Sea Research I 55, 1048-1062.

Ernst, A., Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Rashidi, K. (2008): Permian bryozoa from the Jamal Formation of Shotori Mountains (northeast Iran). Revue Paléobiol. 27(2), 395-408.

Himmler, T., Freiwald, A., Stollhofen, H. & Peckmann, J. (2008): Late Carboniferous hydrocarbon-seep carbonates from the glaciomarine Dwyka Group, southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257, 185-197.

Liu, C., Fürsich, F.T., Dong Y.-X, Che X.-G., Chen, L. & Zhuang, C. (2008): High resolution ostracod records of borehole PRD05 and the late Quaternary palaeoenvironment in Pearl River Delta. Journal of Palaeogeography 10: 313-322. (In Chinese, with English summary)

Munnecke, A. & Servais, T. (2008): Palaeozoic calcareous plankton: evidence from the Silurian of Gotland. Lethaia 41, 185-194.

Munnecke, A., Westphal, H. & Kölbl-Ebert, M. (2008): Diagenesis of plattenkalk: examples from the Solnhofen area (Upper Jurassic, S-Germany). Sedimentology 55, 1931-1946.

Neumann, C., Wisshak, M. & Bromley, R. (2008): Boring a mobile domicile: an alternative to the conchicolous life habit. In: Wisshak, M. & Tapanila, L. (Eds.) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Berlin, Springer, S. 307-328.

Noé, S., Lembke-Jene, L. & Dullo, W.-C. (2008): Varying growth rates in bamboo corals: sclero­chronology and radiocarbon dating of a mid-Holocene deep-water gorgonian skeleton (Keratoisis sp.: Octocorallia) from Chatham Rise (New Zealand). Facies 54, 151-166.

Reveillaud, J., Freiwald, A., Van Rooij, D., Le Guilloux, E., Altuna, A., Foubert, A., Vanreusel, A., Olu-Le Roy, K. & Henriet, J.-P. (2008): The distribution of scleractinian corals in the Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic. Facies 54, 317-331.

Rüggeberg, A., Fietzke, J., Liebetrau, V., Eisenhauer, A., Dullo, W.-C. & Freiwald, A. (2008): Stable strontium isotopes (d^88/86Sr) in cold-water corals - a new proxy for reconstruction of interme­diate ocean water temperatures. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269, 569-574.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Maurer, F. (2008): Upper Triassic (Norian) hypercalcified sponges from the Musandam Peninsula (United Arab Emirates and Oman). Facies 54, 433-460.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Ridd, M.F. (2008): Two new Triassic sphinctozoan sponge species from near Katang, Trang Province, Southern Thailand. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 82(3), 254-261.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Caruthers, A.H. & Stanley, J.D.Jr. (2008): The first Upper Triassic silicified hypercalcified sponges from the Alexander Terrance Gravina Island and Keku Strait, southeast Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 82(2), 344-350.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Ridd, M.F. (2008): Amblysiphonella parva n. sp. and Platythalamiella minima n. sp. (Porifera) from black limestone of probable Triassic age near Kantang (Trang Province, Southern Thailand). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 82(3), 254-261.

Servais, T., Lehnert, O., Li, J., Mullins, G.L., Munnecke, A., Nützel, A. & Vecoli, M. (2008): The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain. Lethaia 41, 99-109.

Seyed-Emami, K., Fürsich, F.T., Wilmsen, M., Majidifard, M.R. & Shekarifard, A. (2008): Lower and Middle Jurassic ammonoids of the Shemshak Group in Alborz, Iran, and their palaeobiogeographical and biostratigraphical importance. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53, 237–260.

Su, W., Wang, Y., Cramer, B.D., Munnecke, A., Li, Z. & Fu, L. (2008): Preliminary estimation of paleoproductivity via TOC and Habitat-Types: which method is more reliable? – A case study on the Ordovician-Silurian transitional black shales of the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China. Journal of China University of Geosciences 19(5), 534-548.

Titschack J, Thierens M, Dorschel B, Schulbert C, Freiwald A, Kano A, Takashima C, Kawagoe N, Li X (2009): Carbonate budget of a cold-water coral mound (Challenger Mound, IODP Exp. 307). Marine Geology 259, 36-46.

Titschack, J., Nelson, C.S., Beck, T. & Freiwald, A. (2008): Sedimentary evolution of a Late Pleistocene temperate red algal reef (Coralligène) on Rhodes, Greece: correlation with global sea-level fluctuations. Sedimentology 55, 1747-1776.

Voigt, S., Erbacher, J., Mutterlose, J., Weiss, W., Westerhold, T., Wiese, F., Wilmsen, M. & Wonik, T. (2008): The Cenomanian-Turonian of the Wunstorf section (North Germany): global stratigraphic reference section and new orbital time scale for Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. – Newsletter on Stratigraphy, 43(1), 65-89.

Voigt, S. & Wagreich, M. (coordinators), Surlyk, S., Walaszczyk, I., Uli?ný, D., ?ech, S., Voigt, T., Wiese, F., Wilmsen, M., Niebuhr, B., Reich, M., Funk, H., Michalík, J.,. JagT, J.W.M, Felder, P:J., Schulp, A.S. (2008): Cretaceous. – In: McCann, T. (ed.), The Geology of Central Europe, Vol. 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Geological Society, London, 923-997.

Volohonsky, E., Wisshak, M., Blomeier, D., Seilacher, A., & Snigirevsky, S. (2008): A new helical trace fossil from the Lower Devonian of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) and its palaeoenvironmental significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 267(1-2), 17-20.

Westphal, H., Munnecke, A. & Brandano, M. (2008): Effects of diagenesis on the astrochronologic approach of defining stratigraphic boundaries in calcareous rhythmites: The Tortonian GSSP. Lethaia 41, 461-476.

Westphal, H., Munnecke, A., Böhm, F. & Bornhold, S. (2008): Limestone-marl alternations in epeiric sea settings – witnesses of environmental changes, or of rhythmic diagenesis? In: Holmden, C. & Pratt, B.R. (eds). Dynamics of Epeiric Seas: Sedimentological, Paleontological and Geochemical Perspectives: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 48, 389-406.

Wienberg, C., Beuck, L., Heidkamp, S., Hebbeln, D., Freiwald, A., Pfannkuche, O. & Monteys, X. (2008): Franken Mound: facies and biocoenoses on a newly-discovered “carbonate mound” on the western Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic. Facies 54, 1-24.

Wilmsen, M. (2008): An Early Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) maximum flooding bioevent in NW Europe: correlation, sedimentology and biofacies. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 258, 317-333.

Wilmsen, M. & Neuweiler, F. (2008): Biosedimentology of the Early Jurassic post-extinction carbonate depositional system, central High Atlas rift basin, Morocco. Sedimentology 55, 773-807.

Wilmsen, M. & Rabe, M. (2008): Belemnites from the lower Middle Cenomanian of Hoppenstedt, northern Germany: significance and integrated correlation. Cretaceous Research, 29, 936-942.

Wisshak, M. & Jantschke, H. (2008): Exceptional preservation of Late Jurassic trace fossils in a modern cave (Muhlbachquellhohle, S Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 249(1), 75-85.

Wisshak, M. (2008): Two new dwarf Entobia ichnospecies in a diverse aphotic ichnocoenosis (Pleistocene / Rhodes, Greece). Wisshak, M. & Tapanila, L. (Eds.) : Current Developments in Bioerosion. Berlin, Springer, 213-234.

Wisshak, M., Seuß, B. & Nützel, A. (2008): Evolutionary implications of an exceptionally preserved Carboniferous microboring assemblage in the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA). In: Wisshak, M. & Tapanila, L. (Eds.): Current Developments in Bioerosion. Berlin, Springer, S. 21-54.

2007

Álvaro, J.J., Aretz, M., Boulvain, F., Munnecke, A., Vachard, D., Vennin, E. (2007): Fabric transitions from shell accumulations to reefs: an introduction with Palaeozoic examples. In: Álvaro, J.J., Aretz, M., Boulvain, F., Munnecke, A., Vachard, D., Vennin, E. (Eds.), Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations: Climatic and Evolutionary Controls. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 275, 1-16.

Beuck, L., Vertino, A., Stepina, E., Karolczak, M., Pfannkuche, O. (2007): Skeletal response of Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) to bioeroding sponge infestation visualised with micro-computed tomography. Facies 53, 157-176.

Bromley, R.G., Wisshak, M., Glaub, I. & Boutquelen, A. (2007): Ichnotaxonomic review of dendriniform borings attributed to foraminifera: Semidendrina igen. nov. In: Miller III W (ed) Trace fossils: concepts, problems, prospects. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 508-520.

Farkas, J., Böhm, F., Wallmann, K., Blenkinsop, J., Eisenhauer, A., van Geldern, R., Munnecke, A., Voigt, S. & Veizer, J. (2007): Calcium isotope budget of Phanerozoic oceans: Implications for chemical evolution of seawater and its causative mechanisms. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, 5117-5134.

Hühnerbach, V., Blondel, Ph., Huvenne, V.A.I., & Freiwald, A. (2007): Habitat mapping of a cold-water coral reef off Norway, with a comparison of visual and computer-assisted methods to inter­pret sidescan sonar data. In: Todd, B.J. & Greene, H.G. (eds.), Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 47, 291-302.

Kiriakoulakis, K., Freiwald, A., Fisher, E. & Wolff, G.A. (2007): Organic matter quality and supply to deep-water coral-mound systems of the NW European continental margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences 96, 159-170.

Lehnert, O., Fryda, J., Buggisch, W., Munnecke, A., Nützel, A., Kriz, J. & Manda, S. (2007): d¹³C records across the late Silurian Lau event: New data from middle palaeo-latitudes of northern peri-Gondwana (Prague Basin, Czech Republic). Palaeogeography, Palaeo­climatology, Palaeoecology 245, 227-244.

Milàn, J., Bromley, R.G., Titschack, J. & Theodorou, G. (2007): A diverse vertebrate ichnofauna from a Quaternary eolian oolite from Rhodes, Greece. SEPM Special Publications 88, 333-343.

Noé, S.U., Lembke-Jene, L., Reveillaud, J. & Freiwald, A. (2007): Microstructure, growth banding and age determination of a primnoid gorgonian skeleton (Octocorallia) from the late Younger Dryas to earliest Holocene of the Bay of Biscay. Facies 53, 177-188.

Peckmann, J., Senowbari-Daryan, B., Birgel D. & Goederet J. L. (2007): The crustacean ichofossil Palayius associated with callianassid body fossils in an Eocene methane-seep limestone, Humputulips Formation, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Lethaia 40, 273-280.

Rigby, J.K. & Senowbari-Daryan, B. (2007): First hexactinellid sponge reported from the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation of central Iran. J. Paleont. 81(6), 1538-1542.

Schönberg, C.H.L. & Beuck, L. (2007): Where topsent went wrong: Aka infesta a.k.a. Aka labyrinthica (Demospongiae: Phloeodictyidae) and implications for other Aka spp. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87, 1459-1476.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Yancey, T. (2007): A sphinctozoan sponge from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the United Arab Emirates. J. Paleontology, 81(5), 1128-1131.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Rigby, J. K. (2007): Hikorocidium, not an alga, but an inozoid sponge. Can. J. Earth Sci. 44, 149-154.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Velledits, F. (2007): Axopora aggtelekensis Scholz 1972, originally described as Hydrozoa, is attributed to the new genus Anisophytes n. gen. (Cyanophyta). Riv. Paleont. Stratigr. Ital. 113(3), 357-368.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Velledits, F. (2007): Aggtecella, a new genus of Corallinales (Rhodophyta) from the Anisian of the Aggtelek-Rudabánya Mountains, NE Hungary. Facies 53, 401-407.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Link, M. & Isintek, I. (2007): A new name for Triassic algal species Solenopora concentrica Senowbari-Daryan, Link & Isintek 2006. Facies 53, 127.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. Hamedani, A. & Rashidi, R. (2007). Sponges from the Permian of Hambast Mountains, south of Abadeh, central Iran. Facies 53, 575-614.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Gaillard, C. & Peckmann, J. (2007): Crustacean microcoprolites from Jurassic (Oxfordian) hydrocarbona-seep deposits of Beauvoisin, southern France. Facies 53, 229-238.

Wheeler, A.J., Beyer, A., Freiwald, A., de Haas, H., Huvenne, V.A.I., Kozachenko, M., Olu-Le Roy, K. & Opderbecke, J. (2007): Morphology and environment of cold-water coral carbonate mounds on the NW European margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences 96, 37-56.

2006

Beck, T. & Rähle, W. (2006): Description of a newly discovered extinct representative of the genus Hemicycla Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae) from La Gomera, Canary Islands. Basteria 70, 53-56.

Ernst, A., Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Rashidi, K. (2006): Lower Permian Bryozoa of the Jamal Formation from Bagh-e Vang (Shotori Mountains, northeast Iran). Facies 52, 627-635.

Ernst, A., Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Hamedani, A. (2006): Middle Permian Bryozoa from the Lakaftari area, northeast of Esfahan (central Iran). Geodiversitas 28(4), 543-590.

Guinotte, J.M., Orr, J., Cairns, S., Freiwald, A., Morgan, L., George, R. (2006): Will human-induced changes in seawater chemistry alter the distribution of deap-sea scleractinian corals? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(3), 141-146.

Neumann C. & Wisshak M. (2006): A foraminiferal parasite on the sea urchin Echinocorys: Ichnological evidence from the Late Cretaceous (Lower Maastrichtian, Northern Germany). Ichnos 13, 185-190.

Noé, S., Titschack, J., Freiwald, A. & Dullo, W.C. (2006): From sediment to rock: diagenetic processes of hardground formation in deep-water carbonate mounds of the NE Atlantic. Facies 52, 183-208.

Noe, S. & Dullo, W.C. (2006): Skeletal morphogenesis and growth mode of modern and fossil deep-water isidid gorgonians (Octocorallia) in the West Pacific (New Zealand and Sea of Okhotsk). Coral Reefs 25, 303-320.

Nützel, A., Lehnert, O. & Fryda, J. (2006): Origin of planktotrophy - evidence from early molluscs. Evolution & Development 8(4), 325-330.

Roberts, J.M., Wheeler, A.J., Freiwald, A. (2006): Reefs of the deep: the biology and geology of cold-water coral ecosystems. Science 312, 543-547.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Link, M. & Isintek, I. (2006): Calcareous algae from the Triassic (Anisian reef boulders and Norian reef limestones) of Karaburun, western Turkey. Facies 52, 129-148.

Stricanne, L., Munnecke, A. & Pross, J. (2006): Assessing mechanisms of environmental change: Palynological signals across the late Ludlow (Silurian) positive isotope excursion (d¹³C, d¹⁸O) on Gotland, Sweden. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 230, 1-31.

Wisshak M. (2006): High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 109, 1-202.

Wisshak M. & Neumann C. (2006): A symbiotic association of a boring polychaete and an echinoid from the Late Cretaceous of Germany. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51, 589-597.

Wisshak M. & Porter D. (2006): The new ichnogenus Flagrichnus - a palaeoenvironmental indicator for cold-water settings? Ichnos 13, 135-145.

Wisshak M. & Rüggeberg A. (2006): Colonisation and bioerosion of experimental substrates by benthic foraminiferans from euphotic to aphotic depths (Kosterfjord, SW-Sweden). Facies 52, 1-17.

2005

Beuck, L. & Freiwald, A. (2005): Bioerosion patterns in a deep-water Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) thicket (Propeller Mound, northern Porcupine Seabight). In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 915-936.

Cirilli, S., Buratti, N. Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Fürsich, F. T. (2005): Stratigraphy an Palynomophs of the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation of east-central Iran: A mixed Eurasian-Gondwanan microflora. Riv. Ital. Paleont. Stratigr., 111(2), 259-270.

Costello, M.J., McCrea, M., Freiwald, A., Lundälv, T., Jonsson, L., Bett, B.J., van Weering, T., de Haas, H., Robers, J.M. & Allen, D. (2005): Role of cold-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs as fish habitat in the NE Atlantic. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 771-805.

Di Geronimo, I., Messina, C., Rosso, A., Sanfilippo, R., Sciuto, F. & Vertino, A. (2005): Enhanced biodiversity in the deep: Early Pleistocene coral communities from southern Italy. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 61-86.

Dorschel, B., Hebbeln, D., Rüggeberg, A., Dullo, W.-C. & Freiwald, A. (2005): Growth and erosion of a cold-water coral covered carbonate mound in the Northeast Atlantic during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Earth Planetary Science Letters 233, 33-44.

Förstera, G., Beuck, L., Häussermann, V. & Freiwald, A. (2005): Shallow-water Desmophyllum dianthus (Scleractinia) from Chile: characteristics of the biocoenoses, the bioeroding community, heterotrophic interactions and (paleo)-bathymethric implications. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 937-977.

Foubert, A., Beck, T., Wheeler, A.J., Opderbecke, J., Grehan, A., Klages, M., Thiede, T., Henriet, J.-P. & the Polarstern ARK-XIX/3a Shipboard Party (2005): New view of the Belgica Mounds, Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic: preliminary results from the Polarstern ARK-XIX/3a ROV cruise. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 403-415.

Hautmann, M. & Nützel, A. (2005): First record of a heterodont bivalve (Mollusca) from the Early Triassic: Implications for Scythian ecosystems and the `Lazarus problem´. Palaeontology 48(6), 1131-1138.

Kiriakoulakis, K., Fisher, E., Wolff, G.A., Freiwald, A., Grehan, A., Roberts, J.M. (2005): Lipids and nitrogen isotopes of two deep-water corals from the North-East Atlantic: initial results and implications for their nutrition. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 715-729.

Könnecker, G. & Freiwald, A. (2005): Plectroninia celtica n. sp. (Calcarea, Minchinellidae), a new species of “pharetronid” sponge from bathyal depths in the northern Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic. Facies 51, 53-59.

Löffler, S.-B., Janssen, R., Gürs, K.R. & Taviani, M. (2005): The genus Axinus Sowerby, 1821 in the Mediterranean Basin (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae). Journal of Conchology 38(5), 581-597.

López Correa, M., Freiwald, A., Hall-Spencer, J. & Taviani, M. (2005): Distribution and habitats of Acesta excavata (Bivalvia: Limidae) with new data on its shell ultrastructure. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 173-205.

Munnecke, A. & Westphal, H. (2005): Variations in primary aragonite, calcite, and clay in fine-grained calcareous rhythmites of Cambrian to Jurassic age – an environmental archive? Facies 51, 592-607.

Nützel, A. (2005): A new gastropod genus from the Early Triassic Werfen Formation and the recovery of gastropods from the Permian/Triassic extinction. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50, 19-24.

Nützel, A. (2005): Recovery of gastropods in the Early Triassic. In Bottjer, D. and Gall J.-C. (Eds.) The biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction. Comptes Rendus, Palevol. 4, 433-447.

Nützel, A. & Pan Hua-Zhang (2005): Late Paleozoic evolution of the Caenogastropoda: larval shell morphology and implications for the Permian/Triassic mass extinction event. Journal of Paleontology 79, 1175-1188.

Nützel, A. & Schulbert, C. (2005): Facies of two important Early Triassic gastropod lagerstätten: implications for diversity patterns in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Facies 51, 480-500.

Rigby, J. K., Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Hamedani, A. (2005): First reported occurrence of wewokellid sponges (Calcarea, Heteractinida) from the Permian of central Iran. Facies 51, 516-521.

Roberts, J.M. & Freiwald, A. (2005): Integrated European research into cold-water coral reefs. Current 21, 41-45.

Rosendahl, W., Döppes, D., Joger, U., Laskowski, R., López Correa, M., Nielbock, R. & Wrede, V. (2005): New radiometric datings of different cave bear sites in Germany - results and inter­pretations. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat., Toulouse 141, 39-46.

Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Freiwald, A. & Mangini A. (2005): U/Th-dating of deep-water corals from the eastern North Atlantic and the western Mediterranean Sea. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 157-172.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Link, M. (2005): Filograna (colonial serpulid worm tubes) from Upper Triassic (Norian) reef boulders of Taurus Mts. (southern Turkey). Facies 51, 453-459.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., & Link, M. (2005): Solenoporaceen aus den obertriassischen (Nor) Riffkalken des Taurusgebirges (Antalya-Gebiet, Südtürkei). Paläont. Z. 79(4), 409-428.

Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Zamparelli, V. (2005): Triassic Halimedaceans: new genera and species from the Alps, Sicily and southern Apennines. Rev. Espanola de Micropaleont. 37(1), 141-169.

Senowbari-Daryan, B.; Rashidi, K. & Hamedani, A. (2005): Sponge assemblage of the Permian reefal limestones of Kuh-e Bagh-e Vang, Shotori Mountains  (East Iran). Geol. Carpathica 56 (5), 381-406.

Seuß, B., Höfling, R. & Nützel, A. (2005): Triassic-Jurassic carbonates from the Hochfelln Mountain (Northern Calcareous Alps) – its facies, silicified fauna and implications for the end-Triassic biotic crisis. Facies 51, 405-418.

Taviani, M., Freiwald, A. & Zibrowius, H. (2005): Deep coral growth in the Mediterranean Sea: an overview. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 137-156.

Taviani, M., Remia, A., Corselli, C., Freiwald, A., Malinverno, E., Mastrototaro, F., Savini, A. & Tursi, A. (2005): First geo-marine survey of living cold-water Lophelia reefs in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean basin). Facies 50, 409-417.

Titschack, J. & Freiwald, A. (2005): Growth, deposition, and facies of Pleistocene bathyal coral communities from Rhodes, Greece. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 41-59.

Titschack, J., Bromley, R. & Freiwald, A. (2005): Plio-Pleistocene cliff-bound, wedge-shaped, warm-temperate carbonate deposits from Rhodes (Greece): Sedimentology and facies. Sedimen­tary Geology 180, 26-59.

Wheeler, A.J., Beck, T., Thiede, J., Klages, M., Grehan, A., Monteys, F.X. & Polarstern ARK XIX/3a Shipboard Party (2005): Deep-water coral mounds on the Porcupine Bank, Irish Margin: preliminary results from the Polarstern ARK-XIX/3a ROV cruise. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (Eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 393-402.

Wisshak, M., Freiwald, A., Lundälv, T. & Gektidis, M. (2005): The physical niche of the bathyal Lophelia pertusa in a non-bathyal setting: environmental controls and palaeoecological implications. In: Freiwald, A. & Roberts, J.M. (eds) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 979-1001.

Wisshak, M., Gektidis, M., Freiwald, A. & Lundälv, T. (2005): Bioerosion along a bathymetric gradient in a cold-temperate setting (Kosterfjord, SW Sweden): an experimental study. Facies 51, 93-117.

Yan, J.X, Munnecke, A., Steuber, T., Carlson, E.H. & Xiao, Y. (2005): Marine sepiolite in Middle Permian carbonates of South China: implications for secular variation of Phanerozoic sea­water chemistry. J. Sed. Research 75(3), 328-338.

2004

Freiwald, A., Fosså, J.H., Grehan, A. Koslow, T. & Roberts, J.M. (2004): Cold-water Coral Reefs. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK, 84pp.

Garcia-Bellido, D.C., Senowbari-Daryan, B. & Rigby, J.K. (2004): Cystothalamia vandegraafii new species and other sphinctozoan sponges from the Upper Carboniferous of Spain. J. Paleont. 78(6), 1037-1055.

Mienert, J., Weaver, P.E., Berné, S., Dullo, W.-C., Evans, D., Freiwald, A., Henriet J.-P., Jørgensen, B.B., Lericolais, G., Lykousis, V., Parkes, J., Trincardi, F. & Westbrook, G. (2004): Overview of recent, ongoing, and future investigations on the dynamics and evolution of European margins. Oceanography 17(4), 12-29.

Munnecke, A. & Westphal, H. (2004): Shallow-water aragonite recorded in bundles of limestone-marl alternations - the Upper Jurassic of SW Germany. Sedimentary Geology 164(3/4), 191-202.

Nützel, A. & Erwin, D.H. (2004): Late Triassic (Late Norian) gastropods from the Wallowa Terrane (Idaho, USA). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 78(2), 361-416.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Schlagintweit, F. & Sanders, D. (2004): Acanthochaetetes? krumbachensis n. sp., (Hadromerida, Demospongiae) from the Upper Cretaceous Gosau Group of Brandenberg (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria). Revue de Paléobiologie 23(1), 267-274.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., & Link, M. (2004): Bevocastria magna n. sp., eine neue Cyanobakterie aus den obertriassischen Riffkalken des Taurus-Gebirges (Türkei). Paläont. Z. 78(2), 301-306.

Senowbari-Daryan, B., Schlagintweit, F. & Sanders, D. (2004): Acanthochaetetes? krumbachensis n. sp., (Hadromerida, Demospongiae) from the Upper Cretaceous Gosau Group of Brandenberg (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria). Revue de Paléobiologie 23 (1), 267-274.

Stricanne, L., Munnecke, A., Pross, J. & Servais, T. (2004): Acritarch distribution along an inshore-offshore transect in the Gorstian (lower Ludlow) of Gotland, Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 130, 195-216.

Vachard, D., Munnecke, A. & Servais, T. (2004): New SEM-observations of the keriothecal walls, implications for the evolution of Fusulinida. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 34(3), 232-242.

Weaver, P.E., Billett, D.M., Boetius, A., Danovaro, R., Freiwald, A. & Sibuet, M. (2004): Hotspot Eco­system Research on Europe’s Deep-Ocean Margins. Oceanography 17, 132-143.

Westphal, H., Munnecke, A., Pross, J. & Herrle, J. (2004): Multi-proxy approach to understanding the origin of Cretaceous pelagic limestone-marl alternations (DSDP Site 391, Blake-Bahama Basin). Sedimentology 51(1), 109-126.

Wisshak, M., Volohonsky, E. & Blomeier, D. (2004): Acanthodian fish trace fossils from the Early Devonian of Spitsbergen. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(4), 629-634.

Wisshak, M., Volohonsky, E., Seilacher, A. & Freiwald, A. (2004): A trace fossil assemblage from fluvial Old Red deposits (Wood Bay Formation; Lower to Middle Devonian) of NW-Spits­bergen,Svalbard. Lethaia 37, 149-163.