Ursula B. Göhlich

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Ursula Bettina Göhlich (born 1967) is a vertebrate - paleontologist with an emphasis on fossil mammals, dinosaurs and birds.

Göhlich studied geology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), where she obtained her diploma in 1992 and her doctorate in 1997 with Volker Fahlbusch on elephants from the paleogenic freshwater molasse in Bavaria . In 1997/98 she worked at the then Geological State Office of Bavaria (since 2005 Bavarian State Office for the Environment ) and since 1999 again at the LMU Munich in the Institute for Paleontology, where she gave her first lectures that same year . In 2002 and 2004/05 (as a Humboldt Fellow ) she was a post-doctoral student at the University of Lyon with Cécile Mourer-Chauviré and in 2003 at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles with Luis M. Chiappe (participation in excavations of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops in the USA ). Since 2007 she has been curator for vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum Vienna . 2011 habilitation they are in Munich.

She is an extraordinary member of the Geobio-Center of the LMU Munich and is on the advisory board of the Palaeontological Society . From 2008 to 2012 she was on the Advisory Board of the Society of Avian Palaeontology and Evolution (SAPE).

She examined fossil trunk animals (Proboscidea) such as Gomphotherium (finds in Gweng near Mühldorf and Sandelzhausen in Bavaria), Deinotherium or Archaeobelodon and also dealt with rhino relatives from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen.

Together with co-author Luis M. Chiappe , she described the small dinosaur Juravenator starki from the Jura of Solnhofen , which was found in 1998 (named after the quarry owners) and was fossil of the year in 2009 . The complete dissection of the young "Borsti", as the specimen was called, showed remains of the skin surface near the tail and, contrary to what was expected of small dinosaurs of the Compsognathus group (such as Sinosauropteryx from the Lower Cretaceous China), no traces were found of feathers but scales. An ultraviolet photograph by Helmut Tischlinger later showed filament-like structures that could indicate feathers. However, he also found other places with scales and traces of collagen between the caudal vertebrae. According to Xu Xing , Juravenator shows the origins of feather development.

Together with Cécile Mourer-Chauviré , a French paleo-ornithologist , she examined pheasant species from the Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France) and studied birds from the Miocene near Gratkorn in Styria and from Sandelzhausen in Bavaria (under among others a crane from the Miocene Palaeogrus mainburgensis ). It also arranged the collection of fossil birds in the Bavarian State Collection in Munich (with gaps caused by the war). With Gerald Mayr she described a parrot from the Miocene of the Nördlinger Ries ' ( Bavaripsitta ballmanni ).

She has also been digging for fossil mammals in the Gobi Desert since 2012 . Since 2013 she has been on the scientific advisory board of the Messel Pit .

Fonts

  • Tertiary primeval elephants from Germany. In: Harald Meller (Hrsg.): Elefantenreich - Eine Fossilwelt in Europa. Halle (Saale) 2010, pp. 340–372.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elephantoidea (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Middle and Upper Miocene of the Upper Freshwater Molasse in Southern Germany: Odontology and Osteology , Munich Geoscientific Abhandlungen Series A 36, Munich, 1998. Dissertation
  2. ^ The Proboscidea (Mammalia) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (southern Germany) , Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84, 2010, pp. 163-204
  3. ^ Chiappe, Göhlich, A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen archipelago , Nature. 440, 2006, pp. 329-332
  4. ↑ Göhlich, Helmut Tischlinger, Chiappe Juravenator starki (Reptilia, Theropoda), a new predatory dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of the southern Franconian Jura , Archeopteryx, Volume 24, 2006, pp. 1-26
  5. ↑ Chiappe, Göhlich Anatomy of Juravenator starki (Theropoda: Coelurosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Germany , New Yearbook for Geology and Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 258, 2010, pp. 257-296
  6. ↑ A real researcher crime interview by Göhlich, Focus from March 17, 2006
  7. ↑ by Pino Völkl, Eichstätt Juramuseum
  8. ↑ There he was classified first. R. Butler and Paul Upchurch placed him in 2007 with original maniraptors and Gareth Dyke and others as relatives of Ornitholestes . In general, however, it is assigned to the coelurosaurs .
  9. ^ A new crane (Aves: Gruidae) from the Miocene of Germany , J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23, 2003, 387-383
  10. ↑ Göhlich, Mayr A new parrot from the Miocene of Germany, with comments on the variation of hypotarsus morphology in some Psittaciformes , Belgian Journal of Zoology 134, 2004, 47–54
personal data
SURNAME Göhlich, Ursula B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göhlich, Ursula Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967