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Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
5966
World Ranking
6120
National Ranking
436

Overview

Wolfgang Stinnesbeck is affiliated with Heidelberg University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on paleontology and climatology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields that Stinnesbeck has contributed to are:

  • Paleontology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Anthropology

Research topics cover a broad spectrum mainly centered around:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology

Stinnesbeck's frequent collaborators include:

  • Jerónimo Avilés Olguín
  • Eberhard Frey
  • Nils Schorndorf
  • Sophie Warken
  • Sarah R. Stinnesbeck

Journals where Stinnesbeck has multiple publications include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Historical Biology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Recent papers authored by or involving Stinnesbeck include:

  • "Solar forcing of early Holocene droughts on the Yucatán peninsula," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "A potential cephalopod from the early Cambrian of eastern Newfoundland, Canada," 2021, Communications Biology
  • "Reconstruction of Middle to Late Quaternary sea level using submerged speleothems from the northeastern Yucatán Peninsula," 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • "Manta-like planktivorous sharks in Late Cretaceous oceans," 2021, Science
  • "Ontogeny, evolution and palaeogeographic distribution of the world's largest ammonite Parapuzosia (P.) seppenradensis (Landois, 1895)," 2021, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene climate and sea-level fluctuations: the Tunisian record

    Thierry Adatte;Gerta Keller;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

  • Yucatán subsurface stratigraphy: Implications and constraints for the Chicxulub impact

    W. C. Ward;Gerta Keller;W. Stinnesbeck;T. Adatte

  • Multiple impacts across the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

    G. Keller;W. Stinnesbeck;T. Adatte;D. Stüben

  • Late Cretaceous sea‐level changes in Tunisia: a multi‐disciplinary approach

    Liangquan Li;Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

  • Maastrichtian to Paleocene depositional environment of the Dakhla Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: sedimentology, mineralogy, and integrated micro- and macrofossil biostratigraphies

    A.A. Tantawy;G. Keller;T. Adatte;W. Stinnesbeck

  • Lithostratigraphic and mineralogic correlations of near K/T boundary clastic sediments in northeastern Mexico: Implications for origin and nature of deposition

    Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Gerta Keller

  • Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary mass extinction

    Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra

  • The Late Campanian and Maastrichtian in northwestern Tunisia: palaeoenvironmental inferences from lithology, macrofauna and benthic foraminifera

    Liangquan Li;Gerta Keller;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

  • Paleoecology of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction in planktonic foraminifera

    Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;W. Stinnesbeck;Valeria Luciani

  • Age and paleoenvironment of the Maastrichtian to Paleocene of the Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar: a multidisciplinary approach

    S. Abramovich;Gerta Keller;T. Adatte;W. Stinnesbeck

  • Deposition of channel deposits near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico: Catastrophic or "normal" sedimentary deposits?

    W. Stinnesbeck;J. M. Barbarin;G. Keller;J. G. Lopez-Oliva

  • High stress late Maastrichtian – early Danian palaeoenvironment in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina

    Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;Abdel A. Tantawy;Zsolt Berner

  • Trace fossils in Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) boundary beds in northeastern Mexico; implications for sedimentation during the KT boundary event

    A. A. Ekdale;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

  • Age, stratigraphy, and deposition of near-K/T siliciclastic deposits in Mexico: Relation to bolide impact?

    G. Keller;J. G. Lopez-Oliva;W. Stinnesbeck;T. Adatte

  • The cretaceous-tertiary transition on the shallow Saharan Platform of southern tunisia

    Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Doris Stüben

  • Trace elements, stable isotopes, and clay mineralogy of the Elles II K–T boundary section in Tunisia: indications for sea level fluctuations and primary productivity

    D Stüben;U Kramar;Z Berner;W Stinnesbeck

  • Aristonectes quiriquinensis, sp. nov., A New Highly Derived Elasmosaurid from the Upper Maastrichtian of Central Chile

    Rodrigo A. Otero;Sergio Soto-Acuña;Frank Robin O'Keefe;José Patricio O'Gorman

  • Paleoceanographic changes at the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary in the Western Tethys, northeastern Mexico

    Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Jürgen Remane;Hans Hubberten

  • More evidence that the Chicxulub impact predates the K/T mass extinction

    Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Doris STüBEN

  • The Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in Northeastern Mexico. Confrontation and correlations by microfacies, clay minerals mineralogy, calpionellids and ammonites

    Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Jürgen Remane

  • Sea-level changes, clastic deposits, and megatsunamis across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

    G Keller;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerta Keller
Gerta Keller Princeton University
Thierry Adatte
Thierry Adatte University of Lausanne
Doris Stüben
Doris Stüben Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Zsolt Berner
Zsolt Berner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Norbert Frank
Norbert Frank Heidelberg University
Jorge E. Spangenberg
Jorge E. Spangenberg University of Lausanne
Charles B. Officer
Charles B. Officer Dartmouth College
Ulrich Hambach
Ulrich Hambach University of Bayreuth
Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez University of California, Berkeley

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