Ronny Roessler

Ronny Rößler (born May 15, 1965 in Stollberg ) is a German paleontologist and paleobotanist .

Life

After training as a skilled worker in mining, he studied geology at the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1987 to 1992 and received his doctorate summa cum laude under Jörg W. Schneider in 1995 ( lithographic and biofacial patterns of the continental Upper Carboniferous and Rotliegend in Northern Germany - the basis for the stratigraphic interpretation of Deep drilling ). He then taught paleobotany in Freiberg and became director of the Chemnitz Natural History Museum in 1995 . In 2003 he completed his habilitation in Freiberg ( contributions to palaeontology and taphonomy of fossil ferns from the Young Paleozoic petrified forests of Chemnitz / Germany and Araguaina / Brazil ).

He is responsible for research and further excavations for fossil forest of Chemnitz (giant horsetails, tree ferns (Psaronius) from the Permian of Perm known). In 2000/2001 he redesigned the exhibition in the Chemnitz Natural History Museum (Sterzeleanum) and published a book on it. In addition to fossilized forests, especially of the Permian (also in Araguaína , Brazil), he deals with fossil spiders.

In 2006 he received the Friedrich von Alberti Prize .

Fonts

• Publisher: The petrified forest of Chemnitz: Catalog for the Sterzeleanum exhibition . Museum für Naturkunde, Chemnitz 2001. ISBN 3-00-007446-5 .
• The largest horsetail in the world and a wood made of precious stones , in: T. Martin, Wighart von Koenigswald , G. Radtke, J. Rust (ed.) Paläontologie. 100 years of the Paleontological Society. Munich: Pfeil 2012, pp. 42–43 and 92–93
• Unique and yet extinct - The Horsetail Giants of the Permian, Fossilien, Heft 2, 2006, pp. 87–92,
• Article: Methods for the study of structure-preserved plant fossils, The stone trees from Kyffhäuser, Between precious heritage and personal experience - Paleobotanical research in the Permian of Chemnitz, psaronia forests at the foot of the volcanoes, news from Araguaina, in: U. Dernbach, WDI Tidwell (ed. ): Secrets of petrified plants - fascination from millions of years, Heppenheim: D'ORO-Verlag 2002
• Arachnid new finds in Central European Lower Carboniferous to Permian - contribution to the revision of the family Aphantomartidae Petrunkevitch 1945 (Arachnida, Trigonotarbida), Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 72, 1998, pp. 67-88
• with M. Barthel: Rotliegend taphocoenoses preservation favored by rhyolitic explosive volcanism, Freiberger Forschungsheft, C 474, 1998, pp. 59-101
• Fern forests, glowing clouds and salt deserts. The Permian, Biology in Our Time, Volume 33, 2003, No. 4, pp. 244-251

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