Ralf Werneburg

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Ralf Werneburg (* 1958 in Erfurt ) is a German palaeontologist and curator at the Natural History Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg in Schleusingen .

He is one of the sons of the visual artist Walter Werneburg . His older brother Joachim Werneburg is a writer.

Ralf Werneburg studied geology and palaeontology at the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1978 to 1983 . In 1987 he received his doctorate there on Labyrinthodontia ( Amphibia ) from the Permian and Carboniferous. Then he was at the Natural History Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg in Schleusingen, whose director he has been since 1993. In the summer semesters 1993 and 1995 he had a teaching position at the Bavarian Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg for the course "Evolution of the vertebrates". In 2001 he realized a large exhibition project for the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt in the Schleusinger Museum: "300 million years of Thuringia" - a landscape ecological exhibition on an area of ​​800 m².

He deals with fossil vertebrates from the Carboniferous , Permian and Triassic , was on excavations in the Rotliegend of the Thuringian Forest , northwest Saxony and southern France as well as in the Keuper of Thuringia and is in several research projects on paleontology and biostratigraphy of amphibians from the Carboniferous to the Triassic of Thuringia and comparable occurrences in Russia , France , the Czech Republic and the USA .

He is a member of the Paleontological Society and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology .

Since 1987 he has been the editorial editor of the journal “Publications Naturhistorisches Museum Schleusingen”, which was renamed “Semana” in 2010.

Initial descriptions (selection)

  • Genus:
  • Kashmirosaurus WERNEBURG & SCHNEIDER 1996
  • Nyranerpeton WERNEBURG 2012
  • Type:
  • Apateon kontheri WERNEBURG 1988
  • Branchierpeton reinholdi WERNEBURG 1988
  • Melanerpeton arnhardti WERNEBURG 1988
  • Melanerpeton eisfeldi WERNEBURG 1988
  • Branchierpeton saalensis WERNEBURG 1989
  • Limnogyrinus edani WERNEBURG 1989
  • Melanerpeton sembachense WERNEBURG 1989
  • Sclerocephalus jogischneideri WERNEBURG 1992
  • Trematosaurus thuringiensis WERNEBURG 1993
  • Apateon intermedius WERNEBURG 1996
  • Cymatosaurus minor RIEPPEL & WERNEBURG 1998
  • Onchiodon thuringiensis WERNEBURG 2007
  • Parapinacoceras thiemei REIN & WERNEBURG 2010
  • Gymnites brunzeli REIN & WERNEBURG 2010
  • Nyranerpeton amilneri WERNEBURG 2012
  • Platyrhinops fritschi WERNEBURG 2012
  • Saurichthys hoffmanni WERNEBURG, KOGAN & SELL 2014
  • Saurichthys minimahleri WERNEBURG, KOGAN & SELL 2014

Fonts

  • with J.-S. Steyer: Redescription of the holotype of Actinodon frossardi (Amphibian, Temnospondyli) from the Lower Rotliegend of the Autun Basin (Lower Permian, France). In: Geobios, 32 (4), 4 fig., 2 tab., Villeurbanne 1999, pp. 599–607.
  • Apateon dracyiensis - an early pioneering form of branchiosaurs from the European Rotliegend, part 1: morphology. In: Publ. Naturhist. Museum Schleusingen, 16:16 illus .; Schleusingen 2001, pp. 17-36.
  • with ökoplan Essen: On the trail of our environment - 300 million years of Thuringia. 104 p., 147 ill., Verlag Frankenschwelle Hildburghausen, 2003
  • First record of postcranial lateral lines in fossil amphibians (Branchiosauridae; Rotliegend, Upper Carboniferous - Lower Permian). In: N. Jb.Geol.Paleont. Abh., 232 (2/3), 5 fig., Stuttgart 2004, pp. 365–373.
  • with JW Schneider : Amphibian biostratigraphy of the European Permocarboniferous. In: SG Lucas, G. Cassinis and JW Schneider (Eds.), Non-Marine Permian Biostratigraphy and Biochronology. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 265, 3 figs., 1 tab., London 2006, pp. 201-215.
  • with A. Ronchi u. JW Schneider: The Lower Permian Branchiosaurids (Amphibia) of Sardinia (Italy): Systematic Palaeontology, Palecology, Biostratigraphy and Palaeobiogeographic Problems. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 252, 2007, pp. 383-404.
  • The “Manebacher Saurier” - a new large eryopid (Onchiodon) from the Rotliegend (Lower Permian) of the Thuringian Forest. In: Publications Naturhistorisches Museum Schleusingen, 22, 26 fig., Schleusingen 2007, pp. 3–40.
  • Timeless design: colored pattern of skin in Early Permian branchiosaurids (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea). In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27 (4), 2007, 4 figs, pp. 1047-1050.
  • The notochord of branchiosaurs from the Permocarbon and possible sexual dimorphism. In: Publications Natural History Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg Schleusingen, 23, 28 fig., Schleusingen 2008, pp. 63–86.
  • The Permotriassic branchiosaurid Tungussogyrinus Efremov, 1939 (Temnospondyli, Dissorophoidea)) from Siberia restudied. In: Fossil Record 12 (2), 13 figs., Berlin 2009, pp. 105–120
  • Dissorophoid amphibians from the Westphalian D (Upper Carboniferous) of Nýřany in Bohemia (Czech Republic) - the key to understanding the early 'branchiosaurs'. In: Semana (natural science publications NHM Schleusingen), 27, 35 fig., Schleusingen 2012, pp. 3–50
  • with JW Schneider u. SG Lucas The dissorophoid Milnererpeton huberi (Temnospondyli) from the Late Pennsylvanian Kinney Brick Quarry in New Mexico restudied - Paleontology, Paleoenvironment, and age. In: SG Lucas et al. (Ed.): Carboniferous-Permian Transition in Central New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 59, Albuquerque 2013, pp. 349-369.
  • with E. Mey (Ed. for Museumsverband Thüringen): THÜRINGER NATUR-SCHÄTZE. Natural history museums and collections in the Free State of Thuringia. 280 pages, Verlag Schnell u. Steiner, Regensburg 2014.
  • with I. Kogan and J. Sell : Saurichthys ( Pisces ): Actinopterygii from the red sandstone ( Triassic ) of the Germanic basin . In: Semana 29, 2014, pp. 3–35.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Biography after Werner K. Weidert (Ed.): Classic sites of palaeontology. Volume 4, 2001, Goldschneck Verlag. It is from Werneburg and Jörg W. Schneider : The dinosaur limestone from Niederhäslich in the Döhlen basin near Dresden
  2. ↑ Ralf Werneburg: Sclerocephalus jogischneideri n. Sp. (Eryopoidea, Amphibia) from the Unterrotgende (Unterperm) of the Thuringian Forest. Freiberger Forschungshefte C, 445, 1992, pp. 29-48.
personal data
SURNAME Werneburg, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt