Norbert Wilczewski

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Quarry on the motorway bridge near Dettelbach

Norbert Wilczewski (born February 20, 1938 in Breslau ) is a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

After primary school in Eibelstadt, Norbert Wilczewski attended the Realgymnasium in Würzburg from 1948 and from 1953 to 1957 the municipal natural science high school at Hansaring in Cologne and then studied geology at the University of Cologne and the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

In 1967 he was at Georg Knetsch and Erwin Rutte in Würzburg with his dissertation on Micropalaeontological investigations in the limestone of Lower Franconia , which he submitted on 31 March 1967 and passed his oral examination on 10 May 1967 a doctorate . For his dissertation, he took a sample of 7 detailed profiles from these 220 m thick layers in Lower Franconia on average about every 30 cm and then assessed 230 samples from the Lower Muschelkalk , 9 samples from the Middle Muschelkalk and 250 samples from the Upper Muschelkalk for the content on microfossils and their stratigraphic occurrence.

As a result, in addition to his findings about the respective stratigraphic occurrence of the individual species of the different microfossils, he was able to find and process isolated jaw elements of Triassic scolecodonts in his work for the first time and incorporate an initial description of Arabellites moenanus Wilczewski 1967. He was supported by the Polish vertebrate paleontologist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska , who advised him on the chapter of the scolecodonts. Almost at the same time as Wilczewski, Heinz Kozur , who was researching at the Bergakademie Freiberg at the time , was also working on jaw elements of Triassic scolecodonts from the shell limestone from the Thuringian Basin and Northern Germany , probably without mutual knowledge , and published his findings six months later in the monthly reports of the German Academy of Sciences.

When working on the foraminifera , Wilczewski was supported with tips from Edith Kristan-Tollmann and found 11 genera to be found. Despite the conservation of stone cores, he was able to identify the taxa Ammodiscus incertus ( D'Orbigny 1839), Ammodiscus infimus ( Strickland 1846) and Glomospira gordialis ( Jones & Parker 1860).

The numerous conodonts found could be assigned to 16 different species (8 genera). The taxon Lonchodina arcuata Wilczewski 1967, newly established by Norbert Wilczewski during processing, is presumably not valid, since this name was already assigned to the Devonian conodont Lonchodina arcuata Ulrich & Bassler in 1926 at that time.

In 1983 (3rd edition 1995) he published a geological guide for Main Franconia and Rhön with Erwin Rutte .

Wilczewski worked later until his retirement as a research assistant in the field of engineering geology in the applied geology department at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Micropalaeontological investigations in the Muschelkalk of Lower Franconia . Inaugural dissertation, Würzburg 1967
  • with Hans-Peter Schultze : A Nothosauride from the lower Central Keuper Lower Franconia . In: Göttingen work on geology and palaeontology, 5, 1970, pp. 101–112
  • with Wolfgang E. Krumbein: A Dipnoer tooth plate made from the red sandstone of Heligoland . In: New year book for geology and palaeontology, monthly books, 1973, booklet 5, pp. 279–283
  • The Kalbenstein near Karlstadt - Geological analysis of a landslide . In: Weltenburger Akademie, Kelheim – Weltenburg 1983, pp. 239–244
  • with Erwin Rutte: Mainfranken and Rhön . Geological Guide Collection , Volume 74, 2nd completely revised edition of Volume 43, Borntraeger, Berlin and Stuttgart 1983
  • with Erwin Rutte: Mainfranken and Rhön . Geological Guide Collection, Volume 74, 3rd revised edition, Borntraeger, Berlin and Stuttgart 1995

literature

  • Resume . In: Norbert Wilczewski: Micropalaeontological investigations in the shell limestone of Lower Franconia. Würzburg, 1967, 2 pages (without numbering)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ scolecodonts Croneis & Scott in 1933 ( "worm teeth", from the Greek. Scolex = worm Dontos = tooth) are chitinous or partially calcified something 0.1-20 mm wide, zähnchen-, sawtooth and plate-like jaw parts of living marine polychaete (Many bristles), which belong to the tribe of annelids (Annelida).
  2. ↑ Holotype : Wilczewski 1967, pp. 54-55, plate 5, Figs. 1a-b; Locus typicus : gorge-like valley, 1.75 km north-north-west of Goßmannsdorf am Main , sheet Ochsenfurt No. 6326, R 3573540, H 5506780; Stratum typicum : Middle main shell limestone, plate limestone sequence IV, 2 m above clay horizon 1
  3. ^ Heinz Kozur: Scolecodonts from the shell limestone of the Germanic inland basin. In: Monthly reports of the German Academy of Sciences, 9 (11), Berlin 1967, pp. 842–865
  4. ↑ Holotype: Wilczewski 1967, pp. 91-92, plate 14, Figs. 10a-b; Locus typicus: quarry on the motorway bridge near Dettelbach am Main , sheet Kitzingen No. 6226, R 3582800, H 5517240; Stratum typicum: clay horizon 4, around 2.50 m above the Cycloidesbank
personal data
SURNAME Wilczewski, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw