Michael Schudack

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Michael Schudack on a teaching excursion in 2005

Michael Schudack (born August 9, 1954 in Gelsenkirchen ; † January 13, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German geologist and paleontologist with a focus on micropalaeontology .

Career

Schudack studied geology / palaeontology at the Ruhr University Bochum and obtained his diploma in 1979 . In 1985, he was with the theme of marine facies The Charophytenflora and development of boundary layers Jura / Wealden in the northwestern Iberian chains (compared to Asturias and Cantabria) PhD . In 1988 he moved to the Institute for Paleontology at the Free University of Berlin , which at the time was still located in Dahlem (now subordinate to the Institute for Geological Sciences as a department and located in Lankwitz together with the other institutes of the Department of Geosciences ). In 1993 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with the topic The Charophytes in Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Western Europe with a phylogenetic analysis of the entire group . From 1995 to 1998 he worked as a research assistant to Hartmut Haubold at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) . He then returned to the paleontology department of the Free University of Berlin, where he last held the rank of senior academic councilor .

Research priorities

During his time in Bochum, Schudack already dealt intensively with the fossil remains of Mesozoic charophytes, i. e. S. ( candelabrum algae ). After moving to the Free University of Berlin, he deepened his research in this area and achieved international renown through the publication of his results. He was from 2001 to 2004, Secretary of the International Charophytenforschungsgruppe ( English International Research Group of Charophytes , IRGC).

Another focus of his work were Mesozoic ostracods (mussel crabs). In this field he often worked closely with his wife Ulla, to whom he had been married since 1982. In 2005 he was co-organizer of the premises of the Institute of Geological Sciences, held at the FU Berlin 15th International Symposium ostracods and from 2005 to 2009 he was Secretary of the International Ostracodenforschungsgruppe ( English International Research Group on Ostracoda ).

Schudack's specialist knowledge of these two groups of organisms, which are not only paleologically but also stratigraphically relevant, qualified him for membership in both the German (secretary 2004 to 2007) and the international sub-commission for law stratigraphy. He also made contributions to the stratigraphic position of the sediments of important Jurassic fossil sites such as Tendaguru in East Africa and Guimarota in Portugal as well as contributions to the stratigraphy and paleecology of the dinosaur-bearing Morrison Formation in North America.

In total, Schudack published several dozen conference contributions, almost 80 specialist articles and essays in German and international scientific periodicals. He also described , partly as a co-author , several fossil taxa .

Honors

  • Michael Schudack was named Best University Lecturer in 2015 by the student body of the Geosciences Faculty of the Free University of Berlin .
  • The Martin Luther University in Halle, where he still worked to a certain extent as a lecturer and supervisor for theses after 1998, awarded him an honorary professorship in 2005 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Charophyte flora and facial development of the boundary layers of the marine Jura / Wealden in the north-western Iberian chains (with comparisons to Asturias and Cantabria). Palaeontographica, Division B. Vol. 204, No. 1-6, 1987, pp. 1-80 (dissertation).
  • The charophytes in the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Western Europe with a phylogenetic analysis of the entire group. Berlin Geoscientific Treatises, Series E: Palaeobiology. Vol. 8, 1993, pp. 1-209 (habilitation thesis).
  • Charophytes from the Kimmeridgian of the Guimarota coal mine (Portugal). With an in-depth discussion on the dating of the site. Berlin Geoscientific Treatises, Series E: Palaeobiology. Vol. 9, 1993, pp. 211-231
  • New micropaleontological contributions (Ostracoda, Charophyta) to the Morrison ecosystem. Berlin Geoscientific Treatises, Series E: Palaeobiology. Vol. 16, 1995, pp. 389-407
  • with Christine Turner and Fred Peterson: Biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and biogeography of charophytes and ostracodes from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Western Interior, USA Modern Geology. Vol. 22, 1998, pp. 379-414.
  • Some Charophytes from the Middle Dinosaur Member of the Tendaguru Formation (Upper Jurassic of Tanzania). Messages from the Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin, geoscientific series. Vol. 2, 1999, pp. 201-205, doi: 10.1002 / mmng.1999.4860020115 (Open Access).
  • Ostracoda (marine / nonmarine) and palaeoclimate history in the Upper Jurassic of Central Europe and North America. Marine Micropaleontology. Vol. 37, No. 3-4, 1999, pp. 273-288, doi: 10.1016 / S0377-8398 (99) 00028-6 .
  • with Ulla Schudack as main author: Ostracods from the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian-Tithonian) of southern Germany. Journal of Micropalaeontology. Vol. 19, No. 2, 2000, pp. 97-112, doi: 10.1144 / jm . 19.2.97 .
  • Basal Jurassic nonmarine ostracods from the Moenave Formation of St. George, Utah. Pp. 427-431 in: Jerry D. Harris, Spencer G. Lucas, Justin A. Spielmann, Martin G. Lockley, Andrew RC Milner, James I. Kirkland (Eds.): The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin. Vol. 37, 2006 ( online ).
  • with Benjamin Sames (lead author) and Robin Whatley: Praecypridea : a new non-marine ostracod genus from the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Europe, North and South America, and Africa. Journal of Micropalaeontology. Vol. 29, No. 2, 2010, pp. 163-176, doi: 10.1144 / 0262-821X10-015 .
  • with Benjamin Sames (lead author) and Richard Cifelli: The nonmarine Lower Cretaceous of the North American Western Interior foreland basin: New biostratigraphic results from ostracod correlations and early mammals, and their implications for paleontology and geology of the basin - An overview. Earth Science Reviews. Vol. 101, No. 3–4, 2010, pp. 207–224, doi: 10.1016 / j.earscirev.2010.05.001 (alternative full-text access : ResearchGate ).

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General

  • Helmut Keupp: Obituary for Michael Schudack (1954–2016). In: Web presence of the Geosciences Faculty of the Free University of Berlin, Institute for Geological Sciences, specializing in paleontology. Accessed December 6, 2016 (with complete list of publications).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ME Schudack: Some Charophytes from the Middle Dinosaur Member of the Tendaguru Formation. 1999 (see writings ).
  2. ↑ M. Schudack: Charophytes from the Kimmeridgium of the Guimarota coal mine (Portugal). 1993 (see writings ).
  3. ^ M. Schudack: New micropalaeontological contributions (Ostracoda, Charophyta) to the Morrison ecosystem. 1995 (see writings ).
  4. ↑ M. Schudack, C. Turner, F. Peterson: Biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and biogeography of charophytes and ostracodes from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. 1998 (see writings ).
personal data
SURNAME Schudack, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2016
Place of death Berlin