Jörg Schneider (paleontologist)

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Jörg Walter Herbert Schneider (born August 23, 1948 in Schwarza near Blankenhain ) is a German paleontologist .

Life

Jörg Schneider studied geology and palaeontology from 1968 to 1972 at the Bergakademie Freiberg (after he initially worked in natural gas exploration in Thuringia) , where he received his doctorate in 1977 (on the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the Blattodea (Insecta) des Siles and Rotgende der DDR) and was assistant to Arno Hermann Müller . In 1981 he qualified as a professor ( The Phylogeny of the Blattodea and the Area Dynamics of Entomofauna in the Young Paleozoic ) and in 1987 he became Professor of Paleontology at the Bergakademie Freiberg and, after the professorships there, became a university professor in 1992, where he made a decisive contribution to geology and To establish paleontology at the TU Freiberg / Saxony in the whole of Germany. At the University of Kazan in Tatarstan , Russia, he has been professor and head of a research team since June 2014. From 1999 to 2001 he was Vice President of the Paleontological Society . His doctoral students include a. Ilja Kogan and Ronny Rößler . He retired at the beginning of 2016, but is still active at TU Freiberg.

Research priorities

In addition to fossil insects, he also deals with fossil fish (mainly also from the Carboniferous and Permian ), with biostratigraphy and paleoecology of red sediments of the Carboniferous and Permian ( Rotliegend ), which are actually considered to be low in fossils, and associated extreme biotopes as well as the red sandstone of the Germanic Triassic .

Memberships

  • Paleontological Society
  • IUGS Subcommission Permian Stratigraphy, of which he is Vice President (2014).

Initial descriptions (selection)

  • Family:
  • Pleurojulidae SCHNEIDER & WERNEBURG 1998
  • Genus:
  • Kashmirosaurus WERNEBURG & SCHNEIDER 1996
  • Pleurojulus SCHNEIDER & WERNEBURG 1998
  • Type:
  • Pleurojulus steuri SCHNEIDER & WERNEBURG 1998

Honors

  • In 1992 the species Sclerocephalus jogischneideri WERNEBURG was named after him
  • In 2017 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society and received the Serge von Bubnoff Medal .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the Blattodea (Insecta) of the Carboniferous and Permian of the GDR. Freiberg Research Books 1978
  • with Spencer G. Lucas , G. Cassinis (Eds.): Non-marine Permian Biostratigraphy and Biochronology. Geological Society Special Publications, 265, 2006
  • Editor with Christopher J. Cleal and Olaf Elicki : Late palaeozoic terrestrial environments (Perm-Carboniferous, Terrestrial Environments, Palaeontology, Sedimentology), Z. Dt. Ges. Geowiss., 156, issue 3, 2005
  • with Frank Körner, Marco Roscher, Uwe Kroner: Permian climate development in the northern peri-Tethys area - The Lodève basin, French Massif Central, compared in a European and global context. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 240 (1-2), Amsterdam 2006, pp. 161-183
  • with Ralf Werneburg : The dinosaur limestone from Niederhäslich in the Döhlen basin near Dresden, in Werner K. Weidert, Classical Findings of Paleontology, Volume 4, Goldschneck Verlag 2001

See also the literature cited in Rotliegend .

literature

  • Olaf Elicki: Over four decades different palaeontology: on the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Jörg W. Schneider. In: psf - paleontology, stratigraphy, facies. H. 22/2014, pp. I-XIII. ISBN 978-3-86012-499-4

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Biography after Werner K. Weidert: Classical sites of paleontology. Volume 4, 2001, Goldschneck Verlag, and the homepage of Jörg W. Schneider in Freiberg
  2. ↑ Sclerocephalus (English WP)
  3. ↑ Ralf Werneburg: Sclerocephalus jogischneideri n. Sp. (Eryopoidea, Amphibia) from the Unterrotgende (Unterperm) of the Thuringian Forest. Freiberger Forschungshefte C, 445, 1992, pp. 29-48
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Jörg W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarza near Blankenhain