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Franz T. Fürsich is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and has an extensive publication record in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields, including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, and Geophysics.

The scientist's publications cover important topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Marine or freshwater? Accessing the paleoenvironmental parameters of the Caldas Bed, a key marker bed in the Crato Formation (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil)", 2020, Brazilian Journal of Geology
  • "Short-lived "Bakevelliid-Sea" in the Aptian Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil", 2020, Cretaceous Research
  • "Fossil-Bearing Concretions of the Araripe Basin Accumulated During Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b", 2023, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Stress in the tropics? Impact of a latitudinal seawater δ18O gradient on Middle Jurassic temperature reconstructions at low latitudes", 2020, Geology
  • "High-resolution taphonomy and sequence stratigraphy of internally complex, bakevelliid-dominated coquinas from the Aptian Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, NE Brazil", 2022, Marine and Petroleum Geology

Fürsich frequently publishes in several key journals, notably:

  • Cretaceous Research
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Journal of Palaeogeography
  • Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Their collaborations include regular coauthors such as Matthias Alberti, Dhirendra K. Pandey, Marcello Guimarães Simões, Mário Luís Assine, and Filipe Giovanini Varejão.

Best Publications

  • Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates.

    John Alroy;Martin Aberhan;David J. Bottjer;Michael Foote

  • Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification

    J. Alroy;C. R. Marshall;R. K. Bambach;K. Bezusko

  • Shell beds as tools in basin analysis : the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India

    F. T. Fürsich;W. Oschmann

  • Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago.

    Abderrazak El Albani;Stefan Bengtson;Donald E. Canfield;Andrey Bekker

  • The Cimmerian Orogeny in northern Iran: tectono-stratigraphic evidence from the foreland

    Markus Wilmsen;Franz T. Fürsich;Kazem Seyed-Emami;Mahmoud Reza Majidifard

  • A fossil record full of holes: The Phanerozoic history of drilling predation

    Michal Kowalewski;Alfréd Dulai;Franz T. Fürsich

  • Lithostratigraphy of the Upper Triassic–Middle Jurassic Shemshak Group of Northern Iran

    Franz Theodor Fürsich;Markus Wilmsen;Kazem Seyed-Emami;Mahmoud Reza Majidifard

  • On Diplocraterion Torell 1870 and the significance of morphological features in vertical, spreiten-bearing, U-shaped trace fossils

    Franz T. Fursich

  • The influence of faunal condensation and mixing on the preservation of fossil benthic communities

    Franz Theodor Fürsich

  • Trace fossils as environmental indicators in the Corallian of England and Normandy

    Franz Theodor Fürsich

  • Biostratinomy and palaeoecology of the cassian formation (Triassic) of the Southern Alps

    F.T. Fürsich;J. Wendt

  • Hardgrounds, reworked concretion levels and condensed horizons in the Jurassic of western India: their significance for basin analysis

    F. T. Fürsich;W. Oschmann;I. B. Singh;A. K. Jaitly

  • The Jehol Biota: Definition and distribution of exceptionally preserved relicts of a continental Early Cretaceous ecosystem

    Yanhong Pan;Jingeng Sha;Zhonghe Zhou;Franz T. Fürsich

  • Palaeoecology and evolution of Mesozoic salinity-controlled benthic macroinvertebrate associations

    Franz T. Fürsich

  • Sequence stratigraphic significance of sedimentary cycles and shell concentrations in the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous of Kachchh, western India

    Franz Theodor Fürsich;Dhirendra K Pandey

  • The Mid-Cimmerian tectonic event (Bajocian) in the Alborz Mountains, Northern Iran: evidence of the break-up unconformity of the South Caspian Basin

    Franz Theodor Fürsich;Markus Wilmsen;Kazem Seyed-Emami;Mahmoud Reza Majidifard

  • Testing the role of biological interactions in the evolution of mid-Mesozoic marine benthic ecosystems

    Martin Aberhan;Wolfgang Kiessling;Franz T. Fürsich

  • Palaeoclimate reconstructions of the Middle Jurassic of Kachchh (western India): an integrated approach based on palaeoecological, oxygen isotopic, and clay mineralogical data

    F.T. Fürsich;I.B. Singh;M. Joachimski;S. Krumm

  • Taphonomy of tidal flat molluscs in the northern Gulf of California; paleoenvironmental analysis despite the perils of preservation

    Franz T. Fursich;Karl W. Flessa

  • Faunal response to transgressive-regressive cycles: example from the Jurassic of western India

    Franz T. Fürsich;Wolfgang Oschmann;Anand K. Jaitly;Indra Bir Singh

  • Environmental distribution of trace fossils in the Jurassic of Kachchh (Western India)

    Franz Theodor Fürsich

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Wilmsen
Markus Wilmsen Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Mario Luis Assine
Mario Luis Assine Sao Paulo State University
John Alroy
John Alroy Macquarie University
Marcello Guimarães Simões
Marcello Guimarães Simões Sao Paulo State University
Peter J. Wagner
Peter J. Wagner University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Nils Andersen
Nils Andersen Kiel University
Michał Kowalewski
Michał Kowalewski Florida Museum of Natural History
Wolfgang Oschmann
Wolfgang Oschmann Goethe University Frankfurt
Wolfgang Kiessling
Wolfgang Kiessling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Adam Tomašových
Adam Tomašových Slovak Academy of Sciences

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