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Dr. Dirk Fuchs

Geologische Wissenschaften

Fachrichtung Paläontologie

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Malteserstrasse 74-100, Haus D — Raum D.032
D-12249 Berlin

Tel.: +49(0)30 838 70282
Fax: +49(0)30 838 70745

E-Mail: drig@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Curriculum vitae

• born in December 3, 1971 in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

• 1993 – 1998: Study of biology and palaeontology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• 1998: Diploma: Title of diploma thesis: „Climatic relevant palaeoecologic studies on Holocene molluscs from the Badain Jaran Desert (Inner Mongolia, China)“.

• 1998 – 2001: Study of geology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• 2001 – 2004: PhD-student at the Institute of Systematic Zoology, Humboldt Universität, Berlin funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

• 2005: PhD degree. Title of doctoral thesis: “Character complexes preserved in fossil Coleoidea (Cephalopoda) and their phylogenetic significance”.

• 2006: postdoctoral scholarship at the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tokyo (Japan) funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

• 2005 – today: freelancer at the Musée National d´Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg. Responsible for the palaeontological database (RECORDER).

 

Research interests

Morphology, taxonomy, phylogeny and evolutionary development of both fossil and Recent coleoid cephalopods

• shell ultrastructure with emphasis on the morphogenetic origin and evolutionary transformations of the proostracum and the gladius
• soft tissue morphology preserved in Konservat-Lagerstätten and their phylogenetic significance
• predator-prey interactions in the Mesozoic

 

Future projects

“Palaeontology of decabrachiate Cephalopoda – an ultrastructural approach to their morphogenesis and phylogenesis”

 

Publication list

2000

• Mischke, S., Riedel, F., Schudack, M. E. and Fuchs, D. (2000). Δ18O and Δ 13C isotopes and the Holocene palaeoenvironment of Juyanhai Lake (Northwestern China). In: Oschmann, W., Steininger, F. F. and Fürsich, F. T. Biomarkers and stable isotopes in palaeontology. European Palaeontological Association Workshop 2000, Frankfurt, Program & Abstracts: 75-77.
• Mischke, S., Riedel, F., Schudack, M. E., Demske, D. and Fuchs, D. (2000). Palaeoenvironment of a mid Holocene lacustrine sequence based on orstracods and stable isotopes, Juyanhai Lake (NW China). In: Yanko-Hombach, V. The 2nd International Conference "Application of Micro- and Meioorganisms to Environmental Problems", Winnipeg (Canada), Program & Abstracts: 87-88.
• Schudack, M., Mischke, S., Riedel, F. and Fuchs, D. (2000). Ostracod and gastropod stable isotopes and the Holocene palaeoenvironment of Juyanhai Lake (Northwestern China). 70. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Coburg, Program & Abstracts: 108.

2002

• Mischke, S., Fuchs, D., Riedel, F. and Schudack, M. E. (2002). Mid to Late Holocene palaeoenvironment of Lake Eastern Juyanze (north-western China) based on ostracods and stable isotopes. Geobios 35: 99-110.
• Fuchs, D. (2002). Fossilization of coleoid soft-tissues – releasing the data locked in the fossil record. International Symposium – Mesozoic – Cenozoic Bioevents: Possible links to impacts and other causes, Program & Abstracts: 56.
• Fuchs, D., Keupp, H. and Engeser , T. (2002). New records of soft parts of Muensterella scutellaris MUENSTER, 1842 (Coleoidea) from the Late Jurassic Plattenkalks of Eichstätt and their significance for octobrachian relationships. In: Warnke, K. (ed.). 1st International Symposium - Coleoid cephalopods Through Time, Program & Abstracts, Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 1: 49-50.

2003

• Fuchs, D., Keupp, H. and Engeser , T. (2003). New records of soft parts of Muensterella scutellaris MUENSTER, 1842 (Coleoidea) from the Late Jurassic Plattenkalks of Eichstätt and their significance for octobrachian relationships. In: Warnke, K., Keupp, H. & Boletzky, S. v. (eds.). Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium - Coleoid cephalopods Through Time, Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 3: 101-111.
• Fuchs, D. (2003). Die fossile Gattung Trachyteuthis v.Meyer, 1846 (Coleoidea, Cephalopoda) - ein taphonomisches, morphologisches und phylogenetisches Problem. 73. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Mainz, Programm & Abstracts, Terra Nostra 2003/5: 50-51.
• Mischke, S., Herzschuh, U., Kürschner, H., Fuchs, D., Fahu, C., Fei, M. and Zhencheng, S. (2003). Sub-Recent Ostracoda from Quilian Mountains (NW China) and their ecological significance. Limnologica 33: 280-292.

2004

• Fuchs, D., Keupp, H. and Engeser , T. (2004). Ultrastructural analyses on the conotheca of the genus Belemnotheutis (Belemnitida) with a note on the origin of the proostracum. In: 6th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Present & Past, Fayetteville, Program & Abstracts: 45-46.
• Fuchs, D. and Weis, R. (2004). The "Schistes Cartons" (Lower Toarcium) from the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and its unnoticed coleoid diversity. In: 6th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Present & Past, Fayetteville, Program & Abstracts: 43-44.
• Fuchs, D., Reich, M. and Wiese, F. (2004). Onychites in Diplobelid Coleoids? - Arguments and discussion. In: 6th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Present & Past, Fayetteville, Program & Abstracts: 47-48.

2005

• Fuchs, D. (2005). The "fossil teuthids" of the "Schistes Carton" of Luxembourg are ancient vampyromorphs. XXIIe Reunion anuelles des collaborateurs scientifiques du Musee National D´Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg, abstracts: 15-16.
• Fuchs, D. (2005). Coleoid Cephalopods from the Lithographic Limestones of Hakel (Lebanon) - A Comparison with Solnhofen (Germany). Abstracts volume of the 4th International Symposium on Lithographic Limestone and Plattenkalk. Zitteliania B26: 13.
• Fuchs, D. (2005). About the phylogeny of the Coleoidea. In: Kostak, M. and Marek, J. 2nd International Symposium “Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time”, Prague, abstracts: 68-69.
• Fuchs, D. and Warnke, K. (2005). Fossil record and DNA-Sequences: A working hypothesis about the time of origin of the Decabrachia and the Vampyropoda. In: Kostak, M. and Marek, J. 2nd International Symposium “Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time”, Prague, abstracts: 70-71.
• Klug, C., Schweigert, G., Dietl, G. and Fuchs, D. (2005). Coleoid beaks from the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone (Late Kimmeridgian, SW Germany). Lethaia 38: 173-192.
• Klug, C., Schweigert, G., Dietl, G. and Fuchs, D. (2005). Coleoid Beaks from the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone (Late Kimmeridgian, SW Germany). 4th International Symposium on Lithographic Limestone and Plattenkalk, abstracts. Zitteliania B26: 17-18.

2006

• Delsate, D., Fuchs, D. und Weis, R. (2006). Predator – prey interactions between cephalopods, fishes and marin reptiles during the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of Luxembourg. XXIIIe Reunion anuelles des collaborateurs scientifiques du Musee National D´Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg 2005: 12
• Fuchs, D. (2006). Fossil erhaltungsfähige Merkmalskomplexe der Coleoidea (Cephalopoda) und ihre phylogenetische Bedeutung. Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 8: 1-122. (doctoral thesis)
• Fuchs, D. (2006). Diversity, Taxonomy and Morphology of vampyropod Coleoids (Cephalopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon. Memorie Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, Museo di Storia Naturale Milano 34 (2): 1-28.
• Fuchs, D. (2006). Re-description of Doryanthes munsterii (Orbigny, 1845), a poorly known vampyropod coleoid (Cephalopoda) from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalks. Archaeopteryx 24: 79-88.

2007

• Fuchs, D. (2007). Coleoid Cephalopods from the Plattenkalks of the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany and the Late Cretaceous of Lebanon - A faunal comparison. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 245 (1): 59-69.
• Fuchs, D. (2007). The "proostracum" in spirulid coleoids and its phylogenetic implications. In: 7^th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Present & Past, Sapporo, abstracts. 45.
• Fuchs, D., Beard, G., Tanabe, K. and Ross, R. (2007). Coleid cephalopods from the Late Cretaceous North eastern Pacific. In: 7^th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Present & Past, Sapporo, abstracts. 131.
• Fuchs, D., Engeser, T. and Keupp, H. (2007). Gladius shape variation in the genus /Trachyteuthis/ Meyer 1846 (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from the Late Jurassic Plattenkalks of Nusplingen (Kimmeridgian) and Solnhofen (Tithonian). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 (3): 575-589.
• Fuchs, D., Keupp, H., Mitta, V. and Engeser, T. (2007). Ultrastructural analyses on the conotheca of the genus /Belemnotheutis/ (Belemnitida) with a note on the origin of the proostracum. In: Mapes, R. H. and Landman, N. H. (eds.). Proceedings of the 6^th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Present & Past, Fayetteville. Springer Verlag. Dortrecht. 300-315.
• Fuchs, D., Klinghammer, A. and Keupp, H. 2007. Taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny of plesioteuthidid coleoids from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) Plattenkalks of Solnhofen. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 245 (2): 239-252.

2008

• Delsate, D., Fuchs, D. and Weis, R. (2008). Predator-prey interactions between coleoids, fishes and marine reptiles during the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) in Luxembourg. In: Fuchs, D. (ed.). 3^rd International Symposium "Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time", Luxembourg, abstracts: 99-100.
• Fuchs, D. (2008). Did ancestral Decabrachia possess a proostracum in their body plan? Acta Universitatis Carolinae 49: 123-127.
• Fuchs, D., Bizikov, V., Bracchi, G., Ifrim, Ch., Stinnesbeck, W., Tanabe, K. and Weis, R. (2008). Evolutionary development of the octobrachian life styles -- implications from the fossil record. In: Fuchs, D. (ed.). 3^rd International Symposium "Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time", Luxembourg, abstracts: 19-21.
• Fuchs, D., Ifrim, C. and Stinnesbeck, W. (2008). A new /Palaeoctopus /(Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Vallecillo, north-eastern Mexico, and its implications on the evolution of Octopoda. Palaeontology, 51: 1129-1139.
• Fuchs, D., Ifrim, C. and Stinnesbeck, W. (2008). /Palaeoctopus pelagicus/ (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea), a Turonian octopod from Vallecillo, N.L., Mexico. In: Fuchs, D. (ed.). 3^rd International Symposium "Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time", Luxembourg, abstracts: 107-108.
• Fuchs, D. and Schultze, H.-P. (2008). /Trachyteuthis covacevichi/ n. sp., a late Jurassic coleoid cephalopod from the Paleopacific. Fossil record 11: 34-44.
• Fuchs, D. and Weis, R. (2008). Taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny of Lower Jurassic loligosepiid coleoids (Cephalopoda). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 249: 93-112.
• Fuchs, D. and Weis, R. (2008). Les céphalopodes (seiches, calmars, octopus) particulièrement bien conserves de la collection paléontologique. 25^e réunion annuelle de collaborateurs scientifiques du Musée national d'histoire naturelle.**
• Fuchs, D., Weis, R. and Larson, N. (2008). Fossil evidence of cephalic cartilage - a new character relevant for systematic and phylogenetic problems. In: Fuchs, D. (ed.). 3^rd International Symposium "Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time", Luxembourg, abstracts: 105-106.**
• Ifrim, Ch., Fuchs, D. Stinnesbeck, W. (2008). /Palaeoctopus pelagicus/ (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea), a Turonian octopod from Vallecillo, N.L., Mexico. Abstracts Linares.
• Vartak, A., Fuchs, D. and Ghares, M. (2008). New records of Naefia sp. from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of South India. In: Fuchs, D. (ed.). 3^rd International Symposium "Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time", Luxembourg, abstracts: 75-76.

2009

• Fuchs, D. (2009). Paleobiology of the earliest Octopoda. In: CIAC 2009, Abstracts, 33-34.
• Fuchs, D. (2009). News about the diversity of coleoid cephalopods from the Cenomanian Plattenkalks of Lebanon. Plattenkalksysmposium, Basel, Abstract,
• Fuchs, D., Bracchi, G. and Weis, R. (2009). New records of octopods (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from the Late Cretaceous (Upper Cenomanian) of Hakel and Hadjoula (Lebanon). Palaeontology 52 (1): 56-81.
• Fuchs, D. and Weis, R. (2009). A new Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) coleoid (Cephalopoda) from Hadjoula, Lebanon. Fossil record 12 (2): 175-181.
• Fuchs, D., Kostak, M., Mariotti, N. and Weis, R. (2009). Belemnoids - a paleontological proxy for biogeographical ground patterns of coleoid cephalopods. In: CIAC 2009, Abstracts, 34.

in press

• Fuchs, D. and Tanabe, K. (in press). The shell morphology of Naefia (Cephalopoda: Coleoida) from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Campanian) of Hokkaido (Northern Japan) – a re-investigation. In. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Present & Past, Sapporro.
• Fuchs, D. and Weis, R. (press). Taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny of teudopseid coleoids (Cephalopoda). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie.
• Klug, Ch. and Fuchs, D. (in press). An earliest Hettangian (Jurassic) belemnitid proostracum from Great Britain. In. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Present & Past, Sapporro.
• Klug, Ch., Schweigert, G., Fuchs, D. and Dietl, G. (in press). First record of a belemnite preserved with beaks, arms and ink sac from the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone (Kimmeridgian, SW Germany). Lethaia,
• Schultze, H.-P., Fuchs, D., Giersch, S., Ifrim, C. and Stinnesbeck, W. (in press). Palaeoctopus pelagicus Fuchs et al. 2008 from the Turonian of Mexico is a sarcopterygian. Palaeontology,

in revision

• Fuchs, D. (in revision). A rare and unusual teudopseid coleoid from the Late Cretaceous of Lebanon. In: Fuchs, D. (ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium "Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time".

submitted

• Fuchs, D. (submitted). Solnhofenbuch. Verlag Pfeil.
• Fuchs, D. and Weis, R. (submitted). First record of an upper Toarcian gladius. Ferrantia,
• Fuchs, D. and Keupp, H. (submitted). Trachyteuthis nusplingensis (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) from the Upper Kimmeridgian (Malm ε) of Schamhaupten (Bavaria, South Germany). Archeopteryx

in preparation

• Fuchs, D. et al. (in preparation). First record of a trachyteuthidid from the south western Interior. Paläontologische Zeitschrift,
• Fuchs, D., Bizikov, V. A. and Tanabe, K. (in preparation). An 80 Million years-old deep-sea octopus from Vancouver Island (Canada).
• Fuchs, D. and Niko, S. (in preparation). A new diplobelid belemnoid (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido (Japan).

press releases

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/tpa-cow031709.php

exhibitions

• “Coquilles coquines –Harte Schale Weicher Kern”, 08.10.2008-16.08.2009, Musée National D’Histoire Naturell Luxembourg.
• „Darwin“, 27.10.2009-August 2010, Musée National D’Histoire Naturell Luxembourg.