Rudolf Stockar (paleontologist)
Rudolf Stockar (born December 25, 1965 in Milan ) is a Swiss geologist and paleontologist.
Stockar studied geology at the University of Genoa with a Laureate degree in 1990 and in 2012 he received his doctorate from the University of Lausanne with a dissertation on the stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Middle Triassic on Monte San Giorgio , a famous fossil site that is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
He is a research assistant and curator at the Cantonal Museum for Natural History in Lugano . He directs the excavations on the nearby Monte San Giorgio. Stockar is a professor.
In 2007 the foraminifera species Nemkovella stockari (Less & Özcan) was named after him. He is one of the first to describe the fish Ticinolepis longaeva and Ticinolepis crassidens together with the associated genus Ticinolepis from Monte San Giorgio.
In 2018 he received the Friedrich von Alberti Prize .
Web links
- Luca Jaselli, geological-paleontological excursion to Monte San Giorgio , Steinkern.de (with photos from Stockar)
- Selected publications
Individual evidence
- ↑ Title of the dissertation: Evolution of a Ladinian (Middle Triassic) intraplatform basin. Stratigraphy, microfacies and palaeoecology of the Meride Limestone (Monte San Giorgio, Canton Ticino, Southern Switzerland).
- ↑ Kurt de Swaaf, On the Trail of the Mysterious Trias Pikes , Spiegel Online, February 17, 2009
- ↑ Nemkovella stockari , World Register of Marine Species
- ^ Adriana López-Arbarello, Toni Bürgin, Rudolf Stockar, Heinz Furrer: New holostean fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland), PeerJ, 4: e2234, 2016, PMID 27547543
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stockar, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |