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Christian Klug is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Paleontology. Their work spans various subfields, including Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main research topics include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Christian Klug has frequently published in notable scientific journals. The primary publication venues include:

  • Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
  • Scientific Reports
  • PeerJ
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, such as:

  • René Hoffmann
  • Dirk Fuchs
  • Alexander Pohle
  • Kenneth De Baets
  • Torsten M. Scheyer

Recent publications by Christian Klug include the following papers:

  • "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
  • "A symmoriiform from the Late Devonian of Morocco demonstrates a derived jaw function in ancient chondrichthyans", 2020, Communications Biology
  • "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
  • "Recent advances in heteromorph ammonoid palaeobiology", 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Chamber volume development, metabolic rates, and selective extinction in cephalopods", 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • The Devonian nekton revolution

    Christian Klug;Björn Kröger;Wolfgang Kiessling;Gary L. Mullins

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

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

  • The A‐mode sutural ontogeny in prolecanitid ammonoids

    Dieter Korn;Volker Ebbighausen;Jürgen Bockwinkel;Christian Klug

  • Devonian conodont and ammonoid succession of the eastern Tafilalt (Ouidane Chebbi section), Anti-Atlas, Morocco

    Zdzisław Bełka;Christian Klug;Bernd Kaufmann;Dieter Korn

  • Famennian chondrichthyans from the shelves of North Gondwana

    Michał Ginter;Vachik Hairapetian;Christian Klug

  • Float, explode or sink: postmortem fate of lung-breathing marine vertebrates

    Achim G. Reisdorf;Roman Bux;Daniel Wyler;Mark Benecke

  • EARLY EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS IN AMMONOID EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT

    Kenneth De Baets;Christian Klug;Dieter Korn;Neil H. Landman

  • The origin of ammonoid locomotion

    C Klug;D Korn

  • Life-cycles of some Devonian ammonoids

    Christian Klug

  • Morphological pathways in the evolution of Early and Middle Devonian ammonoids

    Dieter Korn;Dieter Korn;Christian Klug;Christian Klug

  • Quantitative stratigraphy and taxonomy of late Emsian and - Eifelian ammonoids of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco)

    Christian Klug

  • Intraspecific variability through ontogeny in early ammonoids

    Kenneth De Baets;Christian Klug;Claude Monnet

  • Parallel evolution controlled by adaptation and covariation in ammonoid cephalopods

    Claude Monnet;Kenneth De Baets;Christian Klug

  • Devonian Pearls and Ammonoid-Endoparasite Co-Evolution

    Kenneth De Baets;Christian Klug;Dieter Korn

  • Sedimentary evolution of a Palaeozoic basin and ridge system: the Middle and Upper Devonian of the Ahnet and Mouydir (Algerian Sahara)

    Jobst Wendt;Bernd Kaufmann;Zdzislaw Belka;Christian Klug

  • Soft–part preservation in heteromorph ammonites from the Cenomanian–Turonian Boundary Event (OAE 2) in north–west Germany

    Christian Klug;Wolfgang Riegraf;Jens Lehmann

  • First record of a belemnite preserved with beaks, arms and ink sac from the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone (Kimmeridgian, SW Germany)

    Christian Klug;Günter Schweigert;Dirk Fuchs;Gerd Dietl

  • Emsian Ammonoidea and the age of the Hunsrück Slate (Rhenish Mountains, Western Germany)

    Kenneth De Baets;Christian Klug;Dieter Korn;Christoph Bartels

  • Soft-tissue imprints in fossil and Recent cephalopod septa and septum formation

    Christian Klug;Eric P. Meyer;Ute Richter;Dieter Korn

  • 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

  • Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography

    Christian Klug;Dieter Korn;Kenneth De Baets;Isabelle Kruta

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Korn
Dieter Korn Museum für Naturkunde
Neil H. Landman
Neil H. Landman American Museum of Natural History
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra University of Zurich
Alexander Nützel
Alexander Nützel Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
Michael I. Coates
Michael I. Coates University of Chicago
Jens Lehmann
Jens Lehmann University of Bonn
Jobst Wendt
Jobst Wendt University of Tübingen
Hartmut Schulz
Hartmut Schulz University of Tübingen
Andreas Wetzel
Andreas Wetzel University of Basel
André Nel
André Nel French National Museum of Natural History

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