Günter Schweigert

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Günter Schweigert (* 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart .

Life

Schweigert studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Stuttgart from 1983 to 1990 (on coral limestone in the Lower / Middle Jura of the Lessinian Alps ) and received his doctorate in 1995 (on freshwater limestone of the tertiary of the western Swabian Alb and the Hegau). In 1996 he became a research assistant at the Stuttgart Museum of Natural History (in the Nusplinger Plattenkalk project ), in 2001 curator for invertebrates of the Triassic and Paleozoic and 2007 curator for invertebrates of the Jurassic and Cretaceous and micropaleontology . He leads the excavations of the museum in the Nusplinger Plattenkalk (upper Kimmeridgium ).

He mainly deals with Jura and Chalk invertebrates such as ammonites (systematics, biostratigraphy with a focus on the Upper Jurassic, ammonite family Strigoceratidae), crabs and echinoderms, but also tertiary and quaternary macro flora.

In 2000 he and Andreas Braun received the Friedrich von Alberti Prize ( for his services to the research of flora and fauna from the geological history of southwest Germany, in particular the Nusplinger plate limestone, the Randecker Maar and the Jura ammonites, as well as for the popularization of paleontology through exhibitions and writings ) and in 1992 the Walter Schall Prize of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg .

Since 2003 he has been the chief editor of the New Yearbook for Geology and Paleontology, from 2013 of Palaeodiversity and from 2009 of the journal Fossilien .

Since 2008 he has been secretary of the German subcommittee on law stratigraphy and since 2000 secretary of the Tithonium working group in the international subcommittee on law stratigraphy.

On May 14th, 2009 he discovered the oldest spring in the world in the Nusplinger Plattenkalk. It is older than the Archeopteryx from Solnhofen.

Fonts

His numerous publications can be found on the homepage of the Natural History Museum. Here is a selection:

  • With Gert Dietl: In the realm of the sea angels: the Nusplinger plate limestone and its fossils, Munich: Pfeil 2001
  • With Gert Dietl: Nusplinger Plattenkalk: a tropical lagoon from the Jura period, Stuttgart contributions to natural history, C 45, 1999, pp. 1-64
  • With Gert Dietl: The Nusplinger Plattenkalk and its fossils (Weißer Jura zeta, Ober-Kimmeridgium) (excursion N on April 10, 1999), Jber. Mitt. Oberrhein. geol. Ver., NF, 81, 1999, pp. 257-271.
  • The Randecker Maar: a fossil crater lake on the Albtrauf, Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, C 43, 1998, pp. 1-70 (with contributions by Ronald Böttcher, EPJ Heizmann, W. Wohnhas)
  • With Elmar PJ Heizmann : The Randecker Maar. A Miocene crater lake on the eaves of the Swabian Alb, in Werner K. Weidert, Classical Findings of Paleontology, Volume 4, Goldschneck Verlag, 2001
  • With Bernhard Ziegler , Johanna Kovar-Eder: 100 Years Society for the Promotion of the Natural History Museum Stuttgart, Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History 73, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography after Werner K. Weidert (Ed.): Classic sites of palaeontology. Volume 4, 2001, Goldschneck Verlag
  2. ^ Laudation, Friedrich von Alberti Prize
personal data
SURNAME Schweigert, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart