Bettina Reichenbacher

Bettina Reichenbacher (* 1962 ) is a German paleontologist . She is a professor at the Department of Geo- and Environmental Sciences, Section Paleontology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Reichenbacher received his doctorate in 1992 from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed his habilitation in 1998 at the University of Karlsruhe . Since 2002 she has been professor (C3) for terrestrial paleo-ecosystems at LMU. Reichenbacher's research focus is on the real bony fish , especially their otoliths ("ear stones") but also the morphology of their skeleton .

From 2002 to 2003 she was Vice-President and from 2004 to 2006 President of the Paleontological Society .

Works

• Microfauna, paleogeography and biostratigraphy of the Miocene brackish and freshwater molasses in the western Paratethys with special consideration of the fish otoliths . University of Frankfurt / Main, 1992 (dissertation, 248 pages, 21-21 figs., 12 tabs., 11 plates).
• Fish faunas in the Oligocene and Miocene of Central and Southern Europe: paleoecology, biostratigraphy, paleobio- and paleogeography . Faculty of Bio- and Geosciences at the University of Karlsruhe, 1998 (habilitation thesis, 215 pages, 57 illustrations, 27 plates, 3 enclosures (with 36 tables)).

Web links

• Literature by and about Bettina Reichenbacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Bettina Reichenbacher. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - Department for Geo- and Environmental Sciences, accessed on December 11, 2013 .