Carsten Brauckmann

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Carsten Brauckmann (* 1947 ) is a German paleontologist. He is a professor at the TU Clausthal .

Life

After studying geology and palaeontology and graduating from the Technical University of Hanover in 1970 (the crenistria zone and the deeper striatus zone ( goniatites stage, lower carbon) of Lautenthal (northwestern Upper Harz)), he joined the Free University of Berlin in 1973 PhD (Kulm trilobites from Aprath (Bergisches Land)). Until 1975 he worked on the research project Mesozoic Mammals in Portugal at the Free University of Berlin and until 1977 he taught at the University of Marburg. From 1978 he was deputy director at the Fuhlrott Museum in Wuppertal.

Research priorities

He deals with fossil insects and spiders from the Paleozoic (especially Carboniferous, Devonian), trilobites from the Upper Paleozoic , insects from the Mesozoic (especially Triassic ), fossil turtles and crocodiles (Chalk, Upper Jurassic of Northern Germany) and generally with the settlement of the mainland in the Paleozoic .

Initial descriptions ( valid )

  • Together with Th. Schlüter he is the first author of the Triassic insect genera Dubiaphis BRAUCKMANN & SCHLÜTER 1993, Heseneuma BRAUCKMANN & SCHLÜTER 1993 and Saaloscytina BRAUCKMANN & SCHLÜTER 1993
  • Together with Th.Schlüter he is the first author of the Triassic insect species Dubiaphis curvata BRAUCKMANN & SCHLÜTER 1993, Heseneuma hammelburgensis BRAUCKMANN & SCHLÜTER 1993 and Saaloscytina perreticulata BRAUCKMANN & SCHLÜTER 1993

Fonts

  • The plant-bearing central Devon of Wuppertal. In: Werner K. Weidert, Classical Findings of Paleontology, Volume 1, 1988, Goldschneck Verlag
  • The lower carbon of Aprath in the Bergisches Land. In: Werner K. Weidert, Classical Findings of Paleontology, Volume 1, 1988, Goldschneck Verlag
  • Arachnids and insects from the Namurium of Hagen-Vorhalle (Ober-Karbon; West Germany). Publications from the Fuhlrott Museum, 1, 1991, pp. 1-275
  • Contributions in Erich Thomas (ed.): Oberdevon and Unterkarbon von Aprath in the Bergisches Land (Northern Rhenish Slate Mountains), Cologne 1992
  • with Thomas Schlueter : New insects from the Triassic of Lower Franconia. In: Geologica et Palaeontologica 27, 1993, pp. 181-199
  • with RG Martins-Neto u. OF Gallego: Taxonomy; The Triassic insect fauna from Argentina. - Blattoptera, Glosselytrodea, Miomoptera, Auchenorrhyncha and Coleoptera from the Los Rastros Formation (Bermejo Basin), Los Chañares locality (La Rioja Province). In: Clausthaler Geowwissenschaften 5, 2006, pp. 1-9
  • with J. Ansorge: Chaulioditidae from Germany, with description of a new specimen from the early middle Triassic of Gambach / Main, Bavaria (Insecta, Grylloblattida). In: Entomologia Generalis 31 (3), 2008, pp. 251-260
  • with Elke Gröning, Jan-Michael Ilger: From the oldest insects. In: Entomology Today. Volume 22, 2010, pp. 17-40

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Short biography in Werner K. Weidert, Classical Findings of Paleontology, Volume 1, 1988, Goldschneck Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Brauckmann, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947