Rainer Schoch (paleontologist)

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Rainer Schoch (* 1970 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German paleoherpetologist and curator at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart .

Life

Schoch studied geology and paleontology at the University of Tübingen from 1990 to 1995 (diploma 1995) and received his doctorate in 1997 on mastodonsaurus (from the Lettenkeuper von Kupferzell ) . His academic teachers were Frank Westphal and Wolf-Ernst Reif. He was then on research stays at the University of California, Berkeley , New York City, Johannesburg, Moscow, London and Albuquerque. From 2001 to 2002 he was curator at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since 2002 he has been a curator at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart. Since then he has carried out research in the USA, China, Qatar, Siberia, Argentina and Brazil, among others. Since 2007 he has been carrying out excavations at the classic Swabian dinosaur discovery site in the Trias of Trossingen and near Vellberg in Hohenlohe and organized the major state exhibition Saurians - Successful Models of Evolution in Stuttgart 2007. He is also part of the monument protection in Baden-Württemberg for fossil discovery sites such as the responsible in Holzmaden . Schoch is co-editor of the journals Acta Zoologica and Palaeodiversity .

Research priorities

The systematic focus of his work is the early tetrapods , especially the temnospondyles . Schoch is particularly concerned with questions of evolutionary biology, for example the development of larvae and the evolution of metamorphosis . He investigated the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in Palaeozoic and Triassic amphibians . He described several new tetrapod genera (e.g. Trematolestes , Callistomordax , Madygenerpeton , Bystrowiella , Glanochthon and Scapanops ). He also works on Triassic reptiles ( Diapsiden ), such as B. about Aetosaurier Rauisuchier and Archosauriformes . So he discovered the oldest records of bridge lizards in the Lower Keuper von Vellberg .

The geological focus of Schoch's work lies in the late Paleozoic (Carboniferous, Permian) and the Triassic. In addition to the scientific excavations near Vellberg, he also leads the further evaluation of the numerous reptile and amphibian finds that were made in 1977 near Kupferzell in Lettenkeuper . Starting from Triassic amphibians and reptile finds, he investigates the formation of fossil deposits.

Together with Erin Maxwell and Marta Fernandez, Schoch examined an ichthyosaur from the Dogger around 175 million years ago, a geological time window from which no such finds were known to date.

In 2015 Schoch first described the genus Pappochelys together with Hans-Dieter Sues . The discovery of an approximately 240 million year old fossil in Vellberg near Schwäbisch Hall is of general importance for the origin of the turtles and the systematics of all reptiles. It attracted worldwide attention. In 2020 an early representative of the scale lizards ( Velbergia bartholomaei ) from the Triassic (age 240 million years) was described by Schoch and colleagues from the Vellberg site . It came from the same layer as the Pappochelys tortoise, which was found in 2015. In the Triassic there was a small lake there. Relatives of the crocodiles and 5 m long amphibians were also found there.

Awards

In 2010 he received the Friedrich von Alberti Prize .

Fonts

  • with AR Milner: Stereospondyli. In: P. Wellnhofer (Ed.): Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie. Volume 3B. 203 p .; Publishing house Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich 2000
  • Copper cell. Saurians from the Keupersümpfen , Stuttgart contributions to natural history, C, Volume 61, 2006, pp. 1-79
  • Editor: Saurians. Expedition into prehistoric times , Thorbecke 2007
  • The evolution of life cycles in early amphibians. In: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 37, 2009, pp. 135-162
  • Amphibian evolution. The Life of Early Land Vertebrates , Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey, 2014, ISBN 978-0-470-67177-1
  • with AR Milner: Temnospondyli. In: HD Sues (Ed.): Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie. Volume 3A2. Publishing house Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich 2014
  • Early Tetrapoda. In: Wilfried Westheide , Reinhard Rieger : Special Zoology Part 2: Vertebrae and Skull Animals , 1st edition, Spectrum Akademischer Verlag Heidelberg - Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-8274-0307-3
  • Comparative anatomy of Mastodonsaurus giganteus Jaeger 1833 from the Lettenkeuper (Ladinian) of Kupferzell (SW-Germany), and the phylogeny and evolution of Capitosaur amphibians. Dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1998.
  • The early days of the dinosaurs in Germany , Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-89937-219-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Schoch: Wolf-Ernst Reif (June 27, 1945 - June 11, 2009): A Wonderful Mind, or The Teacher's Walk through the Mountains. In: New Yearbook of Geology and Paleontology - Treatises. 255, 2010, pp. 1–12, doi : 10.1127 / 0077-7749 / 2010/0044 .
  2. ^ RR Schoch: Amphibian Evolution. The Life of Early Land Vertebrates. Wiley, New Jersey. 2014, ISBN 978-0-470-67177-1 , doi: 10.1002 / 9781118759127 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ^ Rainer R. Schoch: The evolution of metamorphosis in temnospondyls. In: Lethaia. 35, 2002, pp. 309-327, doi : 10.1111 / j.1502-3931.2002.tb00091.x .
  4. ↑ RR Schoch, NB Fröbisch: Metamorphosis and neoteny: alternative pathways in an extinct amphibian clade. In: evolution; international journal of organic evolution. Volume 60, Number 7, July 2006, ISSN  0014-3820 , pp. 1467-1475, PMID 16929663 .
  5. ^ RR Schoch: Life-cycle evolution as response to diverse lake habitats in Paleozoic amphibians. In: evolution; international journal of organic evolution. Volume 63, Number 10, October 2009, ISSN  1558-5646 , pp. 2738-2749, doi : 10.1111 / j.1558-5646.2009.00769.x , PMID 19619224 .
  6. ^ S. Sanchez, RR Schoch: Bone Histology Reveals a High Environmental and Metabolic Plasticity as a Successful Evolutionary Strategy in a Long-Lived Homeostatic Triassic Temnospondyl. In: Evolutionary biology. Volume 40, 2013, ISSN  0071-3260 , pp. 627-647, doi : 10.1007 / s11692-013-9238-3 , PMID 24293739 , PMC 3832766 (free full text).
  7. ^ Rainer R. Schoch: A complete trematosaurid amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Germany. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26, 2006, pp. 29-43, doi : 10.1671 / 0272-4634 (2006) 26 [29: ACTAFT] 2.0.CO; 2 .
  8. ^ Rainer R. Schoch: A new stereospondyl from the German Middle Triassic, and the origin of the Metoposauridae. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 152, 2008, pp. 79-113, doi : 10.1111 / j.1096-3642.2007.00363.x .
  9. ^ Rainer R. Schoch, Sebastian Voigt, Michael Buchwitz: A chroniosuchid from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and analysis of chroniosuchian relationships. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 160, 2010, pp. 515-530, doi : 10.1111 / j.1096-3642.2009.00613.x .
  10. ^ F. Witzmann, RR Schoch, MW Maisch: A relict basal tetrapod from Germany: first evidence of a Triassic chroniosuchian outside Russia. In: The natural sciences. Volume 95, Number 1, January 2008, ISSN  1432-1904 , pp. 67-72, doi : 10.1007 / s00114-007-0291-6 , PMID 17653527 .
  11. ^ Rainer R. Schoch, F. Witzmann: The temnospondyl Glanochthon from the Permian Meisenheim Formation of Germany. In: Special Papers in Palaeontology. Volume 81, 2009, pp. 121-136 doi: 11 / j.1475-4983.2009.00868.x
  12. ^ Rainer R. Schoch, Hans-Dieter Sues: A new dissorophid temnospondyl from the Lower Permian of north-central Texas. In: Comptes Rendus Palevol. 12, 2013, pp. 437-435, doi : 10.1016 / j.crpv.2013.04.002 .
  13. ^ Rainer R. Schoch: Osteology of the small archosaur Aetosaurus from the Upper Triassic of Germany. In: New Yearbook of Geology and Paleontology - Treatises. 246, 2007, pp. 1-35, doi : 10.1127 / 0077-7749 / 2007 / 0246-0001 .
  14. ↑ David J. Gower, Rainer R. Schoch: The postcranial skeleton of the rauisuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Volume 29, 2009, pp. 103-122 doi: 10.1671 / 039.029.0122 .
  15. ^ Rainer R. Schoch, Hans-Dieter Sues: A new archosauriform reptile from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany. In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12, 2013, pp. 113-131, doi : 10.1080 / 14772019.2013.781066 .
  16. ↑ ME Jones, CL Anderson, CA Hipsley, J. Müller, SE Evans, RR Schoch: Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara). In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. Volume 13, 2013, ISSN  1471-2148 , p. 208, doi : 10.1186 / 1471-2148-13-208 , PMID 24063680 , PMC 4016551 (free full text).
  17. ↑ R. Schoch, R. Wild: The tetrapod fauna in Keuper southern Germany. In: N. Hauschke, V. Wilde (Ed.): The Trias - a completely different world. Munich (Pfeil), ISBN 978-3-93151-655-0 , pp. 395-408.
  18. ↑ R. Schoch: Kupferzell. Dinosaurs from the Keuper swamps. In: Stuttgart contributions to natural history C Volume 61, 2006, pp. 1–79.
  19. ^ RR Schoch, S. Nesbitt et al: The reptile assemblage of the Moenkopi Formation in New Mexico. In: New Yearbook for Geology and Paleontology. 255, 2010, pp. 345-369.
  20. ↑ RR Schoch, D. Seegis: taphonomy, deposition, and pedogenesis in the Upper Triassic dinosaur beds of Trossingen. In: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. Volume 94, 2014, pp. 571-593.
  21. ↑ How to puzzle an ichthyosaur ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  22. ↑ «How six wins in the lottery» - ichthyosaur find fills gaps. In: fr-online.de (Newsticker). August 7, 2012, archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; Retrieved June 26, 2015 .
  23. ^ RR Schoch, HD Sues: A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan. In: Nature. [Electronic publication before printing] June 2015, ISSN  1476-4687 , doi : 10.1038 / nature14472 , PMID 26106865 .
  24. ^ Richard Gray: Hero in a half-formed shell: Turtle ancestor with bony belly unearthed. In: dailymail.co.uk. June 24, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  25. ↑ Hanno Charisius : Paleobiology - More lizard than dinosaur. In: sueddeutsche.de . June 24, 2015, accessed June 25, 2015 .
  26. ↑ Shell Shock: Triassic Reptile Was 'Grandfather' of All Turtles. In: voanews.com. June 23, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  27. ↑ Abc / reuters: Triassic reptile was 'grandfather' of all turtles. In: abc.net.au. June 25, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  28. ↑ G. Sobral, TR Simões, RR Schoch: A tiny new Middle Triassic stemlepidosauromorph from Germany: implications for the early evolution of lepidosauromorphs and the Vellberg fauna. Scientific Reports, 10, 2020, p. 2273
  29. ↑ Meike Rech: New dwarf dinosaur from the early days of reptiles discovered , idw, February 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Schoch, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein