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Paläontologisches Institut und Museum Universität Zürich

Address Paläontologisches Institut und Museum Universität Zürich
Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4
8006
CH-Zürich
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Responsible applicant Institution of higher education Start End date Funding scheme

The Early and Middle Triassic biotic recovery of marine Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes: Diversity, palaeogeography and palaeoenvironments
Brinkmann Winand University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2011 31.03.2012 Project funding

Sensory Palaeoecology in Secondary Aquatic Reptiles - The Radiation of Independent Triassic Marine Reptile Lineages following the Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction Event
Scheyer Torsten University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2014 31.03.2017 Project funding

Morphogenesis, buoyancy, intraspecific variability and palaeoecology of Cretaceous Ammonoidea
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.11.2013 31.10.2017 Project funding

Changes of palaeocommunity structure and diversity partitioning in benthic marine communities during the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic transition
Hautmann Michael University of Zurich - ZH 01.12.2013 30.11.2015 Project funding

Kleinsäuger-Biostratigraphie, Faunenentwicklung und Oekologie der Oberen Süsswassermolasse (Mittelmiozän) Mitteleuropas
Hünermann Karl Alban University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.1992 30.09.1992 Project funding

Taxonomy and systematics of the Saurischia from the new upper dinosaur layer (Norian stage, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland, and their significance for the early radiation and phylogeny of Theropoda and Sauropodomorpha
Scheyer Torsten University of Zurich - ZH 01.01.2016 30.11.2019 Project funding

Glaciation history and environmental evolution of overdeepened valleys in the northern Alpine Foreland: A deep drill hole at the mammoth site in Niederweningen, northern Switzerland
Furrer Heinz University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2009 30.04.2010 Project funding

Sharks extinction risk: From the past to the future (SHARKS-XT)
Pimiento Catalina University of Zurich - ZH 01.08.2020 31.07.2025 PRIMA

New Middle and Late Anisian (Middle Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Nevada (USA): taxonomy and biochronology
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.07.2005 31.07.2005 Publication grants

A new high-resolution Computed Tomography facility for Paleobiological and Anthropological Research at the University of Zürich
Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo University of Zurich - ZH 01.08.2015 31.07.2016 R'EQUIP

Variability, Macroecology, Morphogenesis and Evolution of early Ammonoidea
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.02.2011 31.01.2014 Project funding

Recovery of benthic marine communities after the end-Permian mass extinction event: a synecological approach
Hautmann Michael University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2012 28.02.2013 Project funding

Quantifying decamillennial changes in carbon cycling, climatic and biotic responses to Late Permian-Early Triassic volcanism
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.11.2018 31.10.2022 Sinergia

Sensory Palaeoecology in Secondary Aquatic Reptiles - The Radiation of Independent Triassic Marine Reptile Lineages following the Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction Event
Scheyer Torsten University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2017 31.03.2018 Project funding

9th International Symposium “Cephalopods ? Present and Past” ISCPP 9 gemeinsam mit dem “International Coleoid Symposium”
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.09.2014 30.11.2014 Scientific Conferences

The Early Triassic biotic recovery and climatic/oceanographic contraints
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.01.2010 31.12.2010 Project funding

Mass extinction of gastropods across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary
Hautmann Michael University of Zurich - ZH 01.07.2021 31.10.2021 Scientific Exchanges

Global warming and biotic responses in deep time: insights from Cretaceous ammonoids.
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2010 31.10.2011 Project funding

A new Fossillagerstätte from the Late Devonian of Morocco: faunal composition, taphonomy and palaeoecology
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.12.2014 30.11.2018 Project funding

Ammonitenfauna und Biostratigraphie des Unter-Pliens- bachium (Carixium) zwischen Schwäbischer Alb und Nordschweizer Jura
Rieber Hans University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.1979 31.03.1982 Project funding

Recovery of benthic marine communities after the end-Permian mass extinction event: a synecological approach
Hautmann Michael University of Zurich - ZH 01.03.2009 31.03.2012 Project funding

The developmental bases of variation in mammalian domestication: comparative ontogenetic and experimental approaches
Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo University of Zurich - ZH 01.09.2017 31.05.2021 Project funding

Evolution of late Early Triassic ammonoid faunas and climatic/oceanographic constraints
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.10.2002 30.09.2004 Project funding

Variability, Macroecology, Morphogenesis and Evolution of early Ammonoidea
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.02.2014 31.01.2015 Project funding

Environmental influence on spore-pollen morphology during the Mesozoic
Schneebeli Elke University of Zurich - ZH 01.07.2018 31.08.2022 Project funding

Phylogenetic relationships of placodont reptiles (Diapsida, Sauropterygia) as evidenced by 3D imaging, bone histology, and developmental data
Scheyer Torsten University of Zurich - ZH 01.01.2010 28.02.2013 Project funding

Protorosaur phylogeny and palaeobiogeography: marine versus arboreal, dispersal versus vicariance
Scheyer Torsten University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2016 30.09.2020 Project funding

Systematische und paläo-ökologische Untersuchungen der Fischfauna aus der mittleren Trias des Monte San Giorgio (Kanton Tessin)
Rieppel Olivier University of Zurich - ZH 01.10.1987 30.04.1990 Project funding

‘Chicken: queen of the dinosaurs’ - A new special exhibition and outreach activities
Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo University of Zurich - ZH 01.01.2022 30.09.2022 Agora

Postnatal development and the generation of morphological and life history diversity in mammalian evolution: a study of heterochrony, modularity and bone histology in extant and extinct forms
Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo University of Zurich - ZH 01.10.2013 31.01.2017 Project funding

A new Museum exhibit on Evolution: The Diversity of Crocodiles and their ancestors in geological time
Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo University of Zurich - ZH 01.06.2014 31.08.2016 Agora

The Early Triassic biotic recovery and climatic/oceanographic contraints
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.01.2007 31.12.2009 Project funding

The Early and Middle Triassic biotic recovery of marine Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes: Diversity, palaeogeography and palaeoenvironments
Brinkmann Winand University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2008 31.03.2011 Project funding

The Early and Middle Triassic Biotic Recovery of Marine Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes: Fine-tuning of the recovery dynamics and paleotemperature curve
Brinkmann Winand University of Zurich - ZH 01.09.2013 31.08.2014 Project funding

The second stage of recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction: Ecology, diversity partitioning, and rank-abundance distributions in Middle Triassic marine level-bottom communities
Hautmann Michael University of Zurich - ZH 01.08.2016 31.07.2020 Project funding

Evolution of late Early Triassic ammonoid faunas and climatic/oceanographic constraints
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.10.2004 30.09.2006 Project funding

Growth and shape of molluscan shells: experiments and models
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2009 31.03.2011 Project funding

Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China): taxonomy and biochronology
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.05.2008 31.05.2008 Publication grants

Morphologie und systematische Stellung neuer Ichthyosaurier aus der mittleren Trias des Monte San Giorgio (Tessin/Schweiz)
Rieber Hans University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.1992 31.03.1995 Project funding

Testing for competition or ecological replacement in extinct carnivore faunas
Forasiepi Analía University of Zurich - ZH 01.05.2015 31.07.2015 International short research visits

Skeletal heterochrony in mammals and the parsupial/placental dichotomy
Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo University of Zurich - ZH 01.09.2007 31.08.2010 Project funding

Pattern and process in evolutionary radiations of fossil and living actinopterygian fishes
Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo University of Zurich - ZH 01.10.2011 30.04.2015 Sinergia

The drill hole "Niederweningen'09": Further insights into glaciation history and environmental evolution of overdeepened valleys in the northern Alpine Foreland, Switzerland
Furrer Heinz University of Zurich - ZH 01.05.2010 30.04.2011 Project funding

Annual meeting of the Palaeontological Association 2013
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.12.2013 28.02.2014 Scientific Conferences

Thalattosauriform reptiles in Triassic marine ecosystems: digital cranial retrodeformation, 3D reconstruction & functional anatomy
Scheyer Torsten University of Zurich - ZH 01.08.2018 31.07.2022 Project funding

Taxonomic, morphological and functional diversity of Placodermi and Chondrichthyes from the Late Devonian of Morocco
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.06.2019 31.05.2023 Project funding

The onset of the Early Triassic biotic recovery
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2011 30.11.2015 Project funding

Origin of an Important Clade: Stratigraphy, Evolution and Palaeoenvironment of the Early Ammonoidea
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2009 30.04.2011 Project funding

Phylogenetic Relationships of Placodont Reptiles (Diapsida, Sauropterygia) as Evidenced by 3D Imaging, Bone Histology, and Developmental Data
Scheyer Torsten University of Zurich - ZH 01.04.2013 31.03.2014 Project funding

Reconstructing ammonoid phylogeny by means of morphometric analyses of development trajectories
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.10.2006 30.09.2008 Project funding

Origin of an important clade: stratigraphy, evolution and palaeoenvironment of the early Ammonoidea
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.01.2007 31.03.2009 Project funding

Evolution and Palaeobiology of early cephalopods (Nautiloidea)
Klug Christian University of Zurich - ZH 01.11.2016 31.12.2020 Project funding

Heterochrony and modularity in mammalian evolution: An examination of the developmental bases of adaptive radiations in three clade-pairs
Sánchez-Villagra Marcelo University of Zurich - ZH 01.10.2010 31.01.2014 Project funding

Mid-Early Triassic Extreme Climatic Oscillation (METECO): biotic-abiotic global couplings
Bucher Hugo University of Zurich - ZH 01.12.2015 30.04.2020 Project funding
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