Achim G. Reisdorf

Dr. Achim G. Reisdorf
Deputy Head of Natural Science Collections Ruhr Museum
Fritz-Schupp-Allee 15
DE-45141 Essen
Germany


Phone: +49 (0) 201 24 68 14 79
E-mail: achim.reisdorf(at)ruhrmuseum.de
URL Institution: https://www.ruhrmuseum.de


Additional functions:
Ordentliches Mitglied der Deutschen Subkommission für Jurastratigraphie


Key Publications of Achim G. Reisdorf (up to ten) :
Reisdorf, A.G. & Wetzel, A. (2019): Evidence for synsedimentary differential tectonic movements in a low-subsidence setting: Early Jurassic in northwestern Switzerland. – Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 111(3): 417-444.

Hostettler, B.; Reisdorf, A.G., Jaeggi; D:, Deplazes, G.; Bläsii, H.; Morard, A.; Feist-Burkhardt, S.; Waltschew, A.; Dietze, V.; Menkveld-Gfeller, U. (2018): Litho- and biostratigraphy of the Opalinus Clay and bounding formations in the Mont Terri rock laboratory (Switzerland). – Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 110(1): 23–37.

Reisdorf, A.G.; Bux, R.; Wyler, D.; Benecke, M.; Klug, Ch.; Maisch, M.W.; Fornaro, P. & Wetzel, A. (2012): Float, explode or sink: Postmortem fate of lung-breathing marine vertebrates. - Palaeobio., Palaeoenv., 92: 67–81.

Reisdorf, A.G. & Wuttke, M. (2012):Re-evaluating Moodie's Opisthotonic-Posture Hypothesis in Fossil Vertebrates Part I: Reptiles—the taphonomy of the bipedal dinosaurs Compsognathus longipes and Juravenator starki from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Jurassic, Germany). - Palaeobio., Palaeoenv., 92: 119-168.

Reisdorf, A.G.; Wetzel, A.; Schlatter, R. & Jordan, P. (2011): The Staffelegg Formation: a new stratigraphic scheme for the Early Jurassic of northern Switzerland. – Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 104(1): 97-146.

Maisch, M.W.; Reisdorf, A.G.; Schlatter, R. & Wetzel, A. (2008): A large skull of Ichthyosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of Frick (NW Switzerland). – Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101(3): 617-627.

Jordan, P.; Wetzel, A. & Reisdorf, A.G. (2008): Swiss Jura Mountains. – In: McCann, T. (ed.): The Geology of Central Europe. Volume 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic. – Geological Society, pp.: 880-889; London.

Wetzel, A. & Reisdorf, A.G. (2007): Ichnofabrics elucidate the accumulation history of a condensed interval containing a vertically emplaced ichthyosaur skull. – In: Bromley et al. (eds): Ichnology at the Crossroads: A Multidimensional Approach to the Science of Organism-Substrate Interactions. – SEPM Spec. Publ., 88: 241-251.

Maisch, M.W. & Reisdorf, A.G. (2006): Evidence for the longest stratigraphic range of a post-Triassic Ichthyosaur: a Leptonectes tenuirostris from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of Switzerland. – Geobios, vol. 39, fasc. 4: 491-505.


Expertise of Achim G. Reisdorf:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic LithosphereLithosphere
Sediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism
Topic BiosphereBiosphere
Animals
Topic EcosystemsEcosystems
Terrestrial Ecosystems
Marine Ecosystems
Time FrameTime Frame
Past: Jurassic
Past: Triassic

Specialties of Achim G. Reisdorf:
Early Jurassic sediments of the Jura Mountains of northwestern Switzerland (stratigraphy, sedimentology, phosphorites, sequence stratigraphy, paleogeography, diagenesis, tectonics), Taphonomy

Last update: 12/13/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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