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Markus Wilmsen is affiliated with the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a substantial number of publications in Paleontology, accounting for 43 works, alongside contributions in Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Artificial Intelligence, and Oceanography.

Their research topics cover a range of specific areas including:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Revisiting Glauconite Geochronology: Lessons Learned from In Situ Radiometric Dating of a Glauconite-Rich Cretaceous Shelfal Sequence" (2022) published in Minerals
  • "The Upper Jurassic Garedu Red Bed Formation of the northern Tabas Block: elucidating Late Cimmerian tectonics in east-Central Iran" (2021) published in International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • "Depositional setting and limiting factors of early Late Cretaceous glaucony formation: implications from Cenomanian glauconitic strata (Elbtal Group, Germany)" (2021) published in Facies
  • "A summary of the Jurassic System in North and East-Central Iran" (2021) published in Open access LMU (Ludwid Maxmilian's Universitat Munchen)
  • "Mid-Cretaceous biostratigraphy (ammonites, inoceramid bivalves and foraminifers) at the eastern margin of the Anarak Metamorphic Complex (Central Iran)" (2020) published in Cretaceous Research

Frequent coauthors of Markus Wilmsen include:

  • Birgit Niebuhr (9 collaborations)
  • Mahmoud Reza Majidifard (5 collaborations)
  • Hannes Löser (5 collaborations)
  • Franz T. Fürsich (4 collaborations)
  • Niklas Metzner (4 collaborations)

Their work is often published in well-known geological and paleontological journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen (9 publications)
  • Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (5 publications)
  • Cretaceous Research (3 publications)
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences (2 publications)
  • Facies (2 publications)

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • The Cenomanian - Turonian of the Wunstorf section - (North Germany): global stratigraphic reference section and new orbital time scale for Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

    Silke Voigt;Jochen Erbacher;Jörg Mutterlose;Wolfgang Weiss

  • Sequence stratigraphy and palaeoceanography of the Cenomanian Stage in northern Germany

    Markus Wilmsen

  • South of Caspian to Central Iran Basins

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  • 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

  • An overview of the stratigraphy and facies development of the Jurassic System on the Tabas Block, east-central Iran

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

  • Cenomanian palaeotemperatures derived from the oxygen isotopic composition of brachiopods and belemnites: evaluation of Cretaceous palaeotemperature proxies

    S. Voigt;M. Wilmsen;R. N. Mortimore;T. Voigt

  • The upper Shemshak Formation (Toarcian–Aalenian) of the Eastern Alborz (Iran): Biota and palaeoenvironments during a transgressive–regressive cycle

    Franz T. Fürsich;Markus Wilmsen;Kazem Seyed-Emami;Fabrizio Cecca

  • Facies analysis of a large-scale Jurassic shelf-lagoon: the Kamar-e-Mehdi Formation of east-central Iran

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

  • Biosedimentology of the Early Jurassic post‐extinction carbonate depositional system, central High Atlas rift basin, Morocco

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  • South Caspian to central Iran basins

    M.-F. Brunet;M. Wilmsen;J. W. Granath

  • Stratigraphy, depositional environments and geodynamic significance of the Upper Bajocian–Bathonian Kashafrud Formation, NE Iran

    Jafar Taheri;Franz Theodor Fürsich;Markus Wilmsen

  • The Cenomanian of northern Germany: facies analysis of a transgressive biosedimentary system

    M. Wilmsen;B. Niebuhr;M. Hiss

  • Cenomanian/Turonian sponge microbialite deep-water hardground community (Liencres, Northern Spain)

    Joachim Reitner;Markus Wilmsen;Fritz Neuweiler

  • Phenotypic plasticity and taxonomy of Schloenbachia varians (J. Sowerby, 1817) (Cretaceous Ammonoidea)

    Markus Wilmsen;Abdolmajid Mosavinia

  • Sequence Stratigraphy in the Cenomanian to Campanian of the North Cantabrian Basin (Cantabria, N-Spain)

    Frank Wiese;Markus Wilmsen

  • South Caspian to Central Iran basins: introduction

    Marie-Françoise Brunet;James W. Granath;Markus Wilmsen

  • DOCUMENTATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF TECTONIC EVENTS IN THE NORTHERN TABAS BLOCK (EAST-CENTRAL IRAN) DURING THE MIDDLE AND LATE JURASSIC

    Kazem Seyed-Emami;Franz T. Fürsich;Markus Wilmsen

  • Biostratigraphy of the Upper Cenomanian – Turonian (lower Upper Cretaceous) successions of the western Wadi Araba, Eastern Desert, Egypt

    Emad Nagm;Markus Wilmsen;Mohamed F. Aly;Abdel-Galil Hewaidy

  • The Shemshak Group (Lower-Middle Jurassic) of the Binalud Mountains, NE Iran: stratigraphy, depositional environments and geodynamic implications

    Markus Wilmsen;Franz Theodor Fürsich;Jafar Taheri

  • Fauna and palaeoecology of the Middle Cenomanian Praeactinocamax primus Event at the type locality, Wunstorf quarry, northern Germany

    Markus Wilmsen;Birgit Niebuhr;Christopher J. Wood;Dietrich Zawischa

  • Evolution and demise of a mid-Cretaceous carbonate shelf: the Altamira Limestones (Cenomanian) of northern Cantabria (Spain)

    M. Wilmsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Franz T. Fürsich
Franz T. Fürsich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jörg Mutterlose
Jörg Mutterlose Ruhr University Bochum
Jens Lehmann
Jens Lehmann University of Bonn
Silke Voigt
Silke Voigt Goethe University Frankfurt
Ulf Linnemann
Ulf Linnemann Senckenberg Naturmuseum
André Bornemann
André Bornemann Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
Gerd Geyer
Gerd Geyer University of Würzburg
Christoph Heubeck
Christoph Heubeck Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Malcolm B. Hart
Malcolm B. Hart Plymouth University
Adam Tomašových
Adam Tomašových Slovak Academy of Sciences

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