Mena Schemm-Gregory

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Mena Schemm-Gregory (born November 11, 1976 in Plettenberg ; † July 8, 2013 in Coimbra ) was a German paleontologist . She specialized in the study of Paleozoic and Mesozoic brachiopods .

Life

Mena Schremm Gregory studied after graduating from the St. Ursula High School in Attendorn from 1996 Geology and Paleontology and Italian (2001-2004) and Spanish and Portuguese Philology (2000-2004) at the University of Marburg .

During her studies she worked at the Senckenberg Research Institute in the field of paleozoology since 2002 . In 2004 she presented her diploma thesis on Lower Devonian spiriferids in the Rhenish Slate Mountains in Marburg .

This was seamlessly followed by a DFG- funded doctoral degree on morphology, phylogenesis , taxonomy and paleogeography of Devonian spirifers, which she completed in 2009 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . During her doctorate in 2007, she taught historical geology at the State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz). In 2008 she worked at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University , Cambridge .

Her research focus was on brachiopod research. She is considered to be the pioneer of 3D visualization of the internal structure of Paleozoic and Mesozoic brachiopods.

After completing her doctorate, Mena Schemm-Gregory left the Senckenberg Institute and began a research stay at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama . She then was a post-doctoral student at the Universidade de Coimbra and the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro in Portugal .

The eight-language-speaking scientist published extensively and described numerous new species of brachiopods. Despite her short academic career, she was honored with international prizes and was herself a reviewer of recognized paleontological journals. Mena Schremm-Gregory was also a corresponding member of the international Devonian Stratigraphy Commission. Among her specialist colleagues she was considered the queen of the brachiopods .

Schemm-Gregory's scientific work was repeatedly interrupted by a metabolic disease that had appeared in her youth and of which she died on July 8, 2013.

Awards

Memberships and Reviews

Mena Schemm-Gregory was a member of the Paleontological Society , the Palaeontological Association , the Paleontological Society , the Nassau Society for Natural History , the Sociedad Española de Paleontología and as a reviewer in numerous scientific journals, such as the Paleontological Journal , the Memoires of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists , the Bulletin of Geosciences, GeoArabia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica and Cretaceous Research.

Publications (selection)

  • The spiriferid fauna of the Ems quartzite (Lower Devonian, Rhenish Slate Mountains) , diploma thesis Marburg 2004.
  • Phylogeny, taxonomy and palaeobiogeography of delthyridoid Spiriferids (Brachiopoda, Silurian to Devonian) , dissertation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University Frankfurt / M. 2009.
  • Revision of Devonian Brachiopods from Devon . Palaeontographical Society Research Fund Reports, Newsletter of the Palaeontographical Society, 27, London 2011.
  • The howellellid branches within the delthyridoid spiriferids (Brachiopoda, Silurian to Devonian) . In: Shi, GR, Weldon, EA, Percival, IG, Pierson, RR & Laurie, JR (eds.): Brachiopods: extant and extinct. Proceedings of the Sixth International Brachiopod Congress , February 1-5, 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 41, Melbourne 2011, pp. 115-128.
  • On the genus Quiringites Struve, 1992 (Brachiopoda, Middle Devonian) . Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 50 (1), 2009, pp. 3-20.
  • with Henriques, MH: Catalog of the Krantz Brachiopod Collection at the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) . Zootaxa, 3677 (1), 2013, pp. 1-173.
  • with Henriques, MH: The Devonian Brachiopod collections of Portugal - a paleontological heritage . Geoheritage, 5, 2013, pp. 107–122.
  • with Henriques, MH: New insights of exceptional preserved Nannirhynchia pygmaea (Morris in Davidson & Morris, 1847) from the Lusitanian Basin (Lower Jurassic), Portugal . Fossil Record 15 (2), 2012, pp. 77-83.
  • with Zambito, JJ: Revised Taxonomy and interpretation of Life Position for the Brachiopod gensu Ambocoelia in the Middle and Late Devonian Northern Appalachian Basin (USA) . Journal of Paleontology, 87 (2), 2013, pp. 277-288.
  • with Feldman, HR, M., Ahmad, F. & Wilson, MA: Rhynchonellide Brachiopods from the Jordan Valley. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 57 (1), 2012, pp. 191-204
  • with Kiessling, W., Aberhan, M., Kumar Pandey, D., & Mewis, H .: Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities . Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 59, 2011, pp. 195-214.
  • with Harper, DAT, Alvarez, F., Boucot, AJ, Williams, A., Wright, T .: Tropidoleptida (Brachiopoda): Devonian hopeful monsters or misplaced orphans . Special Papers in Palaeontology, 84, 2010, pp. 119-136.
  • with Jansen, U .: New implications on the Upper Givetian “Stringocephalus Bed” in Central Nevada (Brachiopoda, Middle Devonian) . Palaeontographica Americana, 63, 2009, pp. 157-165.
  • with Jansen, U. & Chen Xiuqin: Comparison of some spiriferid brachiopods from the Lower Devonian of South China and Europe . Fossils and Strata, 54, 2008, pp. 99-104.
  • with Klug, C., Kröger, B., Rücklin, M., Korn, D., de Baets, K., & Mapes, RH: Composition and Ecology of two Early Emsian Faunules from the Tafilalt, (Devonian, Morocco) containing various molluscs, the first coiled ammonoids, edrioasteroids, and machaerids . Palaeontographica Abt. A, 283 (4-6), 2008, pp. 83-176.
  • with Jansen, U., Lazreq, N., Plodowski, G., Schindler, E. & Weddige, K .: Neritic-pelagic correlation in the Lower and basal Middle Devonian of the Dra Valley (S Anti-Atlas, Moroccan Pre- Sahara) . Geological Society, Special Publications, 278, 2007, pp. 9-37.
  • with Jansen, U .: Annotations to the Devonian Correlation Table, B 124 di 06: Brachiopod biostratigraphy in the Lower Devonian of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Germany) based on the phylogeny of Arduspirifer (Delthyridoidea, Brachiopoda) . Senckenbergiana lethaea, 86, 2006, pp. 113-116.
  • with Jansen, U .: Phylogeny of Arduspirifer. In: K. Weddige (Ed.): Devonian Correlation Table. Supplements 1998. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 86, 2006, p. 121.

Initial descriptions of brachiopods and fossil occurrences (selection)

  • New interpretations of the phylogeny of delthyridoid spiriferids (Brachiopoda, Lower and Middle Devonian). Bulletin of Geosciences, 83 (4), 2008, pp. 401-448.
  • A new delthyridoid spiriferid genus from the Dra Valley, Morocco, and its phylogenetic affinities (Brachiopoda, Lower Devonian) . Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 82 (4), 2008, pp. 385-401.
  • A new terebratulid brachiopod species from the Siegenian (middle Lower Devonian) of the Dra Valley, Morocco . Palaeontology, 51 (4), 2008, pp. 793-806.
  • A new species of Filispirifer (Brachiopoda: Delthyridoidea) from the Dra Valley, Morocco (Lower Devonian). Zootaxa, 1739, 2008, pp. 53-68.
  • Frequentispirifer, a new spiriferid genus and its phylogenetic position within the Delthyridoidea (Brachiopoda, Lower Devonian) . New Yearbook for Geology and Paleontology - Treatises, 251 (1), 2009, pp. 53–70.
  • Lusitanispirifer lusitanensis n. Gen. Et sp. - A new delthyridoid spirifer and its palaeogeographical implications for the Dornes Syncline (Lower Devonian, Portugal) . Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 50 (2), 2011, pp. 85-94.
  • Intermedites Struve, 1995 (Brachiopoda, Middle Devonian) - Discovery of a South Chinese immigrant . Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 49 (4), 2010, pp. 425-438.
  • Leonispirifer leonensis gen. Et sp. nov., a rare new delthyridoid spirifer from northern Spain (Brachiopoda, Lower Devonian) . Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 84, 2010, pp. 345–364.
  • A new species of Neopaulinella (Brachiopoda, Terebratulida) from the Eastern Iberian Chains, Spain (Lower Devonian . Bulletin of Geosciences, 86 (2), 2011, pp. 227-240.
  • A new species of Cyrtospirifer (Brachiopoda) from the Middle Devonian of the Western Sahara (Northwest Africa). Rivista Italiana die Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 117 (1), 2011, pp. 3–13.
  • with Jansen, U .: A new genus of terebratulid brachiopod from the Siegenian of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 52 (2), 2007, pp. 413-422.
  • with Jansen, U .: First report of the stringocephalid genus Paracrothyris (Brachiopoda, Middle Devonian) from North Africa . Bulletin of Geosciences, 83 (2), 2008, pp 169-173.
  • Rojas-Briceño, A., Patarroyo, P. & Jaramillo, C .: First report of Hadrosia Cooper, 1983 in South America and its biostratigraphical and paleobiogeographical implications . Cretaceous Research, 34, 2012, pp. 257-267.
  • Franchi, F. & Klug, C .: A new species of Ivdelinia Andronov, 1961 and its palaeoecologial and palaeobiogeographical implications (Morocco, Givetian) . Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (1), 2012, pp. 1-11.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Jansen and Eberhard Schindler: Mena Schemm-Gregory (1976 - 2013). Geologische Mitt., 54, Hannover 2013, ISSN  1616-3931 , p. 102f.
  2. ↑ Mena Schemm-Gregory: Scientific Interests ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (Portuguese), accessed January 22, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uc.pt
  3. ↑ List of publications Mena Schemm-Gregory ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (Portuguese), accessed January 22, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uc.pt
  4. ^ Paleopolis.es Giuseppe Buono obituary Mena Schemm-Gregory , accessed on January 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ Peabody.Yale.edu: Invertebrate paleontology grants aid program , accessed January 21, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Schemm-Gregory, Mena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schemm-Gregory, Mena Daniela (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Plettenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2013
Place of death Coimbra