Klaus Bandel

Klaus Bandel (born December 21, 1941 in Frankfurt an der Oder ) is a German paleontologist and malacologist .

After graduating from high school in Bad Godesberg, Bandel studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Bonn from 1963 with a diploma in 1968 (with Heinrich Karl Erben on the microfaces of a Devonian reef) and a doctorate in 1970. He then spent two years in Colombia researching the actuopalaeontology of molluscs and was in the DFG research group Biomineralization in Bonn. From 1977 to 1979 he was an associate professor in Amman . In 1979 he went to Erlangen as a Heisenberg fellow, where he completed his habilitation. In 1981/82 he was a deputy professor in Hamburg and Essen and in 1984/85 at the TU Berlin. In 1985 he became a professor in Hamburg.

He deals with the paleobiology of molluscs, especially gastropods . He also examined recent representatives to z. B. to draw conclusions for palaeontology and phylogenetic development from the development of the shell of young animals and eggs.

Fonts

• Paleoecology and paleogeography in the Devonian and Lower Carboniferous of the central Carnic Alps , in: Palaeontographica 141 (1972), pp. 1-117 (dissertation).
• Morphology and formation of the early ontogenetic shells in conchiferous moluscs . Facies 1982 (habilitation).
• Change in the ideas of the early evolution of the mollusks, especially the Gastropoda and Cephalopoda , in: Paläontologische Zeitschrift 57 (1983), pp. 271-284.
• Evolution of the gastropods from a biological and paleontological point of view . Publication of the Übersee-Museum, Naturwiss. Bremen, 11 (1992), pp. 17-25.
• with E. Salameh: Geologic Development of Jordan - Evolution of its Rocks and Life . Amman 2013.

literature

• Helmut Keupp : Prof. Dr. Klaus Bandel on his 65th birthday , in: Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81 (2007), pp. 207–212.

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