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Alexander Nützel is affiliated with the Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Paleontology. Their scholarly output includes a significant number of publications investigating various paleontological and geological topics.

Their main fields of study encompass Paleontology, Oceanography, Insect Science, Ecology, and Geophysics. Within these, notable subfields include Paleontology with 30 publications, Oceanography with 19, and Insect Science with 12, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to earth science research.

Alexander Nützel's research covers numerous topics, such as:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Mollusks and Parasites Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Baran Karapunar
  • Winfried Werner
  • Franz T. Fürsich
  • Barbara Seuß
  • Chatchalerm Ketwetsuriya

Alexander Nützel has contributed to a range of publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in the following journals:

  • Zitteliana
  • Paläontologische Zeitschrift
  • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Alexander Nützel include:

  • "Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding 'Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data': Myanmar amber" (2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift)
  • "Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding 'Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data': the importance of private collections" (2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift)
  • "Slit-band gastropods (Pleurotomariida) from the Upper Triassic St. Cassian Formation and their diversity dynamics in the Triassic" (2021, Zootaxa)
  • "Middle Permian (Roadian) gastropods from the Khao Khad Formation, Central Thailand: Implications for palaeogeography of the Indochina Terrane" (2020, Zootaxa)
  • "Taxonomy and diversity of slit-band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA" (2022, Papers in Palaeontology)

Best Publications

  • The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain

    Thomas Servais;Oliver Lehnert;Jun Li;Gary L. Mullins

  • The onset of the ‘Ordovician Plankton Revolution’ in the late Cambrian

    Thomas Servais;Vincent Perrier;Vincent Perrier;Taniel Danelian;Christian Klug

  • An unusually diverse mollusc fauna from the earliest Triassic of South China and its implications for benthic recovery after the end-Permian biotic crisis☆

    Michael Hautmann;Hugo Bucher;Thomas Brühwiler;Nicolas Goudemand

  • Origin of planktotrophy--evidence from early molluscs.

    Alexander Nützel;Oliver Lehnert;Jir̆í Frýda

  • δ13C records across the late Silurian Lau event: New data from middle palaeo-latitudes of northern peri-Gondwana (Prague Basin, Czech Republic)

    Oliver Lehnert;Jiři Frýda;Werner Buggisch;Axel Munnecke

  • Competition in slow motion: the unusual case of benthic marine communities in the wake of the end‐Permian mass extinction

    Michael Hautmann;Borhan Bagherpour;Morgane Brosse;Åsa Frisk;Åsa Frisk

  • Recovery of benthic marine communities from the end-Permian mass extinction at the low latitudes of eastern Panthalassa

    Richard Hofmann;Michael Hautmann;Arnaud Brayard;Alexander Nützel

  • Larval ecology and morphology in fossil gastropods

    Alexander Nützel

  • Gastropod evidence against the Early Triassic Lilliput effect

    Arnaud Brayard;Alexander Nützel;Daniel A. Stephen;Kevin G. Bylund

  • Recovery of gastropods in the Early Triassic

    Alexander Nützel

  • Paleozoic plankton revolution: Evidence from early gastropod ontogeny

    Alexander Nützel;Jiri Frýda

  • Facies of two important Early Triassic gastropod lagerstätten: implications for diversity patterns in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction

    Alexander Nützel;Christian Schulbert

  • Identity and phylogeny of the late Paleozoic Subulitoidea (Gastropoda)

    A. Nützel;D. H. Erwin;R. H. Mapes

  • FIRST RECORD OF A HETERODONT BIVALVE (MOLLUSCA) FROM THE EARLY TRIASSIC: PALAEOECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ‘LAZARUS PROBLEM’

    Michael Hautmann;Alexander Nützel

  • Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”: Myanmar amber

    Joachim T. Haug;Dany Azar;Andrew Ross;Jacek Szwedo

  • Early Triassic Gulliver gastropods: Spatio-temporal distribution and significance for biotic recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction

    Arnaud Brayard;Maximiliano Meier;Gilles Escarguel;Emmanuel Fara

  • Evolutionary implications of an exceptionally preserved Carboniferous microboring assemblage in the Buckhorn Asphalt lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA)

    Max Wisshak;Barbara Seunß;Alexander Nützel

  • Larval and juvenile gastropods from a Carboniferous black shale: palaeoecology and implications for the evolution of the Gastropoda

    Alexander Nützel;Royal H. Mapes

  • Seasonal climatic fluctuations in the Late Triassic tropics—High-resolution oxygen isotope records from aragonitic bivalve shells (Cassian Formation, Northern Italy)

    A. Nützel;M. Joachimski;M. López Correa

  • Diversity and palaeoecology of a highly diverse Late Triassic marine biota from the Cassian Formation of north Italy

    Imelda M. Hausmann;Alexander Nützel

  • Late Triassic (Late Norian) gastropods from the Wallowa Terrane (Idaho, USA)

    Alexander Nützel;Douglas H. Erwin

  • Early Triassic (Late Griesbachian) gastropods from South China (Shanggan, Guangxi)

    Andrzej Kaim;Alexander Nützel;Hugo Bucher;Thomas Brühwiler

  • An unusually diverse mollusc fauna from the earliest Triassic of South China and its implications for benthic recovery after the end-Permian biotic crisis § Une malacofaune exceptionnellement diverse du Trias inférieur de Chine du Sud : implications pour la récupération benthique après la crise biotique fini-permienne

    Michael Hautmann;Hugo Bucher;Thomas Brühwiler;Nicolas Goudemand

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugo Bucher
Hugo Bucher University of Zurich
Aymon Baud
Aymon Baud University of Lausanne
Douglas H. Erwin
Douglas H. Erwin National Museum of Natural History
Christian Klug
Christian Klug University of Zurich
Wolfgang Kiessling
Wolfgang Kiessling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Franz T. Fürsich
Franz T. Fürsich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Arnaud Brayard
Arnaud Brayard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille
Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jiri Frýda
Jiri Frýda Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

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