Actuopalaeontology

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On the waterfront alluvial herring gull ( Larus argentatus ). Actualistic of seagulls observations carcasses showed that a dead bird can remain completely fossil only on land or on the shore while floating in the water disintegrates into isolated parts.

The actuopaleontology ( English equivalent actualistic paleontology ) is a research discipline within the Paläontologie , which with today's processes of embedding dead living beings in the sediment is concerned, their disintegration, the formation of tracks, the rearrangement and condition to fossil be able to interpret findings. Actuopalaeontology deals with aspects of taphonomy , ichnology and functional morphology . The aim is to reconstruct past habitats and environments of extinct animals and plants on the basis of recent environmental situations.

History of Actuopalaeontology

The term actuopalaeontology was coined by Rudolf Richter in 1929 , together with the term actuogeology , and established as a new research discipline. In his work in the Wadden Sea, Rudolf Richter devoted himself to systematic individual observations based on the mechanisms of sedimentation and stratification, with the aim of investigating the laws of deposition and embedding of recent corpses, as well as the formation of tracks and tracks.

literature

  • BW Flemming: 75 years Senckenberg am Meer - actualism as a research principle. Natur und Museum 134 (1), 2004, pp. 1–20. Online at senckenberg.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Ziegler: Introduction to Paleobiology - Part 1. General Paleontology . 5th edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche publishing bookstore. Stuttgart 1992
  2. ^ R. Richter: Basic information on the expansion of the research institute for marine geology and marine palaeontology "Senckenberg" in Wilhelmhaven. Nature and Museum, No. 59: 250–253. Frankfurt am Main, 1929.
  3. ↑ H.-E. Reineck, IB Singh: Depositional Sedimentary Environments. Pp. 439 ff, 579 fig., Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1975.
  4. ↑ M. Gudo: Is the construction morphology an actual principle of paleontology? Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 1997: pp. 145–160.
  5. ^ R. Richter: Actuopalaeontology and palaeobiology, a delimitation. Senckenbergiana 1928, pp. 285-292.