Prof. Dr. Bettina Reichenbacher
PhD students
M. Sc. Felix Hofmayer
Thesis projects of Bachelor students (summer semester 2025)
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Thesis projects of Master students (summer semester 2025)
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Completed thesis projects in the Bachelor program Geowissenschaften (2017–current)
Linus Gremmler (2024): New material of fossil herring from the Chapelcorner Fish Beds (Upper Eocene) of the Isle of Wight (England)
Joachim Oberschätzl (2024): Contribution to the fish fauna based on otoliths from the Middle Eocene (Lutetian) of the Upper Rhine Graben
Lukas Wildgruber (2023): Biostratigraphic and micropaleontological analysis of the Neuhofen Formation in the Mitterdorf clay pit. – 1st prize for the best bachelor’s thesis from the Friends of Geology Munich e.V.
Haodong Chen (2023): Biostratigraphic analysis of the boundary between Neuhofen Formation and glauconite sands & marl (Ottnangian) and detection of possible erosion unconformity based on the microfauna in the Mitterdorf clay pit. – 2nd prize for the best bachelor’s thesis from the Friends of Geology Munich e.V.
Leonard von Ehr (2022): Description and interpretation of the closely related fish species Corcyrogobius liechtensteini (Kolombatović, 1891) and Corcyrogobius lubbocki Miller, 1988.
Kelly Zhan (2022): Description and interpretation of anatomical differences between the closely related fish species Corcyrogobius liechtensteini (Kolombatović, 1891) and Corcyrogobius pulcher Kovačić et al., 2020.
Poster at the XVII European Congress of Ichthyology, 4–8 September 2023, Prague:
Von Ehr, L., Zhan, K., Cerwenka, A. F., Schliewen, U. K. & Reichenbacher, B. (2023): Description and interpretation of new species-identifying differences in the skeletons of three species of Corcyrogobius (Gobiidae). – In XVII European Congress of Ichthyology 4–8 September 2023, Prague, Switzerland, ECI-Abstract-Book, p. 137 (Foto of poster).
Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Warsaw, September 2024:
Von Ehr, L., Zhan, K., Cerwenka, A. F., Schliewen, U. K. & Reichenbacher, B. (2024): Too small for microCT-scanning?—A case study involving African and Mediterranean dwarf gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae). In: De Baets K. & Kaim A. (eds.) Joint Meeting of the Polish Paleobiologists and the 95th Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes), Warsaw, September 16th–21st, 2024, Abstract Book, p. 158. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, Warszawa. doi.org/10.4202/app.01209.2024. 1st prize for the best poster of the conference.
Jana Schmid (2022): Anatomical differences between Trichonotidae und Rhyacichthyidae.
Nicolai Appel (2017): Did the Miocene Esox lepidotus Agassiz, 1844 have a similar lifestyle to the modern Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758?
Laura Brummer (2017): Asineops squamifrons (Cope, 1869) - A mysterious fish of unknown origin
Completed thesis projects in the Master program Geobiology and Paleobiology (2017–lfd.)
Emily Cornford (2024): Jaw and Tooth Morphology in Killifish: Actualistic Insights for Analysis of Fossils.
Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Warsaw, September 2024:
Cornford, E., Herbert Mainero, A., & Reichenbacher, B. (2024): Jaw and Tooth Morphology in Killifish: Actualistic Insights for Analysis of Fossils. In: De Baets K. & Kaim A. (eds.) Joint Meeting of the Polish Paleobiologists and the 95th Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes), Warsaw, September 16th–21st, 2024, Abstract Book, p. 27. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, Warszawa. doi.org/10.4202/app.01209.2024.
Pooria Mohammadzadeh Shaghooei (2023): Disentangling species diversity of Iranocichla (Teleostei, Cichlidae) in southern Iran.
Oral presentation at the XVII European Congress of Ichthyology, 4–8 September 2023, Prague:
Mohammadzadeh Shaghooei, P., Teimori, A., Esmaeili, H. R., Erpenbeck, D., Schliewen U. & Reichenbacher, B. (2023): Disentangling species diversity of Iranocichla (Teleostei, Cichlidae) in southern Iran. – ECI-Abstract-Book, p. 49.
Elena Bauer (2022): Phylogenetic placement of †Paralates chapelcorneri [Teleostei: Gobiodei] from the Upper Eocene using new morphological characters for the distinction of Odontobutidae and Rhyacichthyidae.
Poster presentation (3. prize) at the 8. Rencontres de L'Ichthyologie en France, 14–18 mars 2022, Paris.
Bauer, E., Simpson, M. & Reichenbacher, B. (2022). Investigation of the enigmatic gobioid Paralates chapelcorneri based on new finds from the Eocene of southern England. - RIF-Abstract book, p. 13.
Moritz Dirnberger (2022): Taxonomical revision and phylogenetic placement of a Lower Miocene goby from Western Turkey.
Published:
Dirnberger M., Bauer E., & Reichenbacher B. (2024): A new freshwater gobioid from the Lower Miocene of Turkey in a significantly amended total evidence phylogenetic framework. Journal of Systematic Paleontology. Link to article Artikel (open access)
Riya Bidaye (2021): Intraspecific variation in the killifish Aphaniops stoliczkanus Day, 1872 — implications for understanding diversification.
Published:
Bidaye, R.G., Al-Jufaili, S. M., Charmpila, E. A., Jawad, L., Vukić, J., & Reichenbacher, B. (2023). Possible links between phenotypic variability, habitats and connectivity in the killifish Aphaniops stoliczkanus in Northeast Oman. Acta Zoologica, 104:262–278. Link to article (open access).
Andrea Herbert Mainero (2021): Killifish palaeodiversity in a middle Miocene Lake in the Bugojno Basin, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Awarded the LMU Research Prize for excellent students
Beatriz Hadler Boggiani (2021): New insights in the Neuhofen Formation based on micropaleontological data, C and O isotopes during the Burdigalian in the German Molasse Basin. 2nd prize for the best master's thesis from the Friends of Geology Munich e.V.
Rohit Soman (2020): High resolution palaeoenvironmental analysis of the middle part of the Neuhofen Formation from the outcrop Mitterdorf in the SE German Molasse Basin.
Juan David Andrade (2020): High resolution palaeoenvironmental analysis reveals rapidly changing conditions in the Early Ottnangian (Middle Burdigalian, Early Miocene) of the Central Paratethys.
Published:
Hofmayer, F., Hadler Boggiani, B., Soman, R., Andrade, J. D., Ćorić, S., & Reichenbacher, B. (2023). An integrative palaeoenvironmental and chronostratigraphic study of the Lower Miocene in the North Alpine Foreland Basin – Are global climate signals detectable? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 627, 111719. Link to article
Eleni A. Charmpila (2019): Recently diverged killifishes: A comparative study of Aphanius species from the Middle East.
Published:
Charmpila, E. A., Teimori, A., Freyhof, J., Weissenbacher, A. & Reichenbacher, B. (2020). New osteological and morphological data of four species of Aphaniops (Teleostei; Aphaniidae). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 36: 724–736. Link to article (open access)
Felix Hofmayer (2018): Spatial reconstruction of the Burdigalian (early Miocene) depositional history in the eastern North Alpine Foreland Basin (lower Bavaria) - a revised Chronostratigraphy.
Published:
Hofmayer, F., Kirscher, U., Sant, K., Krijgsman, W., Fritzer, T., Jung, D., Weissbrodt, V., Reichenbacher, B. (2019). Three-dimensional geological modeling supports a revised Burdigalian chronostratigraphy in the North Alpine Foreland Basin. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 108: 2627–2651. Link to article.
Yong Peng (2018): Taxonomic identification of new fossils of Cichlidae (Teleostei) from the Middle Miocene in Central Kenya.
Inda Brinkmann (2017): Ostracod-based palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Miocene Upper Marine Molasse in the Central Paratethys. – A multi-proxy approach.
Published:
Brinkmann, I., Pippèrr, M. & Reichenbacher, B. (2019). A new well-preserved ostracod fauna from the middle Burdigalian (lower Miocene) of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Geobios, 56: 65–93. Link to article.
David Piatka (2017): Regression of the Lower Marine Molasse: Global sea level fall or alpine tectonics?