Adolf Seilacher
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German paleontologist
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Adolf Seilacher's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of Göttingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Adolf "Dolf" Seilacher was a German palaeontologist who worked in evolutionary and ecological palaeobiology for over 60 years. He is best known for his contributions to the study of trace fossils; constructional morphology and structuralism; biostratinomy, Lagerstätten and the Ediacaran biota.
Adolf Seilacher's Published Works
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Published Works
- Bathymetry of trace fossils (1967) (1026)
- Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy (1991) (1002)
- Trace Fossil Analysis (2007) (698)
- Biomat-related lifestyles in the Precambrian (1999) (448)
- Sedimentological, ecological and temporal patterns of fossil Lagerstätten (1985) (411)
- Vendobionta and Psammocorallia: lost constructions of Precambrian evolution (1992) (391)
- FAULT‐GRADED BEDS INTERPRETED AS SEISMITES (1969) (391)
- Cyclic and Event Stratification (1982) (355)
- Uniformity in marine invertebrate ichnology (1980) (347)
- Vendozoa: Organismic construction in the Proterozoic biosphere (1989) (322)
- Ediacaran biota: The dawn of animal life in the shadow of giant protists (2003) (251)
- Trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Behavioral diversification, ecological turnover and environmental shift (2005) (235)
- Sedimentary structures tentatively attributed to seismic events (1984) (222)
- Aberrations in bivalve evolution related to photo‐ and chemosymbiosis (1990) (217)
- Constructional morphology of sand dollars (1979) (162)
- Late Precambrian and Early Cambrian Metazoa: Preservational or Real Extinctions? (1984) (154)
- Fabricational Noise in Adaptive Morphology (1973) (151)
- Paleontological Studies on Turbidite Sedimentation and Erosiona (1962) (134)
- Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats (2011) (121)
- Bivalvian trace fossils a lesson from actuopaleontology (1994) (119)
- The Phylum Vendobionta: a sister group of the Eumetazoa? (1994) (117)
- Puncoviscana folded belt in northwestern Argentina: testimony of Late Proterozoic Rodinia fragmentation and pre-Gondwana collisional episodes (1999) (114)
- Divaricate patterns in pelecypod shells (1972) (105)
- Trilobite palaeobiology and substrate relationships (1985) (104)
- Concretion morphologies reflecting diagenetic and epigenetic pathways (2001) (100)
- Distinctive Features of Sandy Tempestites (1982) (99)
- Underground Vendobionta From Namibia (2002) (94)
- General Remarks About Event Deposits (1982) (90)
- Biomats, biofilms, and bioglue as preservational agents for arthropod trackways (2008) (83)
- Use of Trace Fossil Assemblages for Recognizing Depositional Environments (1978) (82)
- Fossil Foraging Behavior: Computer Simulation (1969) (82)
- Paleoecology of Boring Barnacles (1969) (73)
- Sedimentary and Evolutionary Cycles (1985) (73)
- Ammonites as cartesian divers (1995) (71)
- Epizoans as a key to ammonoid ecology (1960) (66)
- Ordovician and Silurian Arthrophycid Ichnostratigraphy (2000) (66)
- Self-Organizing Mechanisms in Morphogenesis and Evolution (1991) (65)
- Alleged mosasaur bite marks on Late Cretaceous ammonites are limpet (patellogastropod) home scars (1998) (64)
- Paleodictyon nodosum: a living fossil on the deep-sea floor (2009) (61)
- Swimming habits of belemnites—Recorded by boring barnacles (1968) (55)
- How valid is Cruziana Stratigraphy? (1994) (54)
- A re-examination of the Nama-type Vendian organism Rangea schneiderhoehni (2005) (51)
- Upper paleozoic trace fossils from the Gilf Kebir-Abu Ras area in southwestern Egypt (1983) (47)
- The nature of vendobionts (2007) (45)
- The Role of Development in Macroevolutionary Change Group Report (1982) (45)
- Oyster beds: Morphologic response to changing substrate conditions (1985) (45)
- Ammonite aptychi; how to transform a jaw into an operculum? (1993) (44)
- Crinoid Anchoring Strategies for Soft-Bottom Dwelling (2005) (42)
- Constructional Morphology of Pelagic Crinoids (2004) (41)
- A fresh look at sideritic “coprolites” (2001) (40)
- Chapter 11 Evolution of Trace Fossil Communities (1977) (36)
- Ichnostratigraphic correlation of Lower Palaeozoic clastics in the Kufra Basin (SE Libya) (2002) (34)
- Whale barnacles: exaptational access to a forbidden paradise (2005) (34)
- The trace fossil Cruziana semiplicata and the trilobite that made it (2007) (33)
- Ichnocoenoses of a turbidite sole (1991) (32)
- Undertraces of Sea Pens and Moon Snails and possible fossil counterparts (1999) (32)
- Discussion of Precambrian metazoans (1985) (30)
- “European” Species of Trilobite Burrows in Eastern Newfoundland (1969) (30)
- EARLY MOLLUSCAN EVOLUTION: EVIDENCE FROM THE TRACE FOSSIL RECORD (2010) (30)
- Swimming trace of a coelacanth fish from the Lower Keuper of south‐west Germany (2003) (30)
- Bivalve morphology and function (1985) (29)
- Soft-bottom tube worms: from irregular to programmed shell growth (2008) (28)
- Morphogenetic count-downs in heteromorph shells (1993) (27)
- Class Psammocorallia (Coelenterata, Vendian‐Ordovician): Recognition, systematics, and distribution (1996) (27)
- The jeram model: Event condensation in a modern intertidal environment (1985) (26)
- Paleozoic trace fossils (2017) (25)
- Mosasaurs, Limpets or Diagenesis: How Placenticeras Shells Got Punctured (1998) (24)
- The parasite connection in ecosystems and macroevolution (2007) (20)
- Orientation of agnostid shields in Alum Shale (Upper Cambrian): Implications for the depositional environment (1999) (20)
- A trace fossil assemblage from fluvial Old Red deposits (Wood Bay Formation; Lower to Middle Devonian) of NW‐Spitsbergen, Svalbard (2004) (19)
- Use of trace fossils for recognizing depositional environments (1978) (18)
- Hermit arthropods 500 million years ago (2009) (18)
- Trace fossil associations in the Swedish Mickwitzia sandstone (Lower Cambrian): Did trilobites really hunt for worms? (2001) (18)
- Ammonite Shells as Habitats — Floats or Benthic Islands? (Abstract) (1982) (18)
- Towards an Evolutionary Stratigraphy (1981) (16)
- Spirocosmorhaphe, a new graphoglyptid trace fossil (1989) (16)
- Directions in the History of Life (1986) (15)
- Paleogeographic Significance of Tempestites and Periodites (1982) (15)
- Ordovician and Silurian trace fossils from Northern Benin (W-Africa) (1988) (14)
- Precambrian “fossil” Vermiforma is a tectograph (2000) (14)
- Preservational history of compressed Jurassic ammonites from Southern Germany (2014) (13)
- Secondary soft-bottom dwellers: convergent responses to an evolutionary "mistake" (2005) (13)
- Origin and Diagenesis of the Oriskany Sandstone (Lower Devonian, Appalachians) as Reflected in its Shell Fossils (1968) (12)
- The early evolution of metazoa and the significance of problematic taxa (1993) (12)
- Patterns of macroevolution through the Phanerozoic (2013) (12)
- Patterns of macroevolution : How to be prepared for extinction (1998) (11)
- A new helical trace fossil from the Lower Devonian of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) and its palaeoenvironmental significance (2008) (11)
- Remote biomineralization 2: fill skeletons controlling buoyancy in shelled cephalopods (1993) (10)
- Trace fossils from the Late Proterozoic of North Carolina: early conquest of deep-sea bottoms (1992) (9)
- Benkovac Stone (Eocene, Croatia): a deep-sea Plattenkalk? (2011) (8)
- Marine influences in the so-called continental sediments of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic Kandi Basin (Northern Benin - West Africa) (1991) (8)
- Storm Beds: Their Significance in Event Stratigraphy (1984) (7)
- Candle wax shells, morphodynamics, and the Cambrian explosion (1993) (7)
- Principles of Ichnostratigraphy (2007) (6)
- Self‐organization and emergent individuality of favositid corals adapted to live on soft substrates (2012) (6)
- Developmental transformations in Jurassic driftwood crinoids (2011) (6)
- “Medusoid” salt pseudomorphs (1991) (6)
- Cyclism revisited: extinction and ‘Achilles’ Heels' keep diversification in check on macroevolutionary time scales (2013) (6)
- Silurian trace fossils from Africa and South America mapping a trans-Gondwanan seaway (2005) (5)
- Vendobionts (Precambrian evolution) (2003) (5)
- "Hammer oysters" as secondary soft bottom dwellers (1982) (5)
- The elastic age: rise and fall of Precambrian biomat communities (2014) (5)
- CRINOID ANCHORING STRATEGIES FOR SOFT-BOTTOM DWELLING (SEILACHER AND MACCLINTOCK, 2005) (2006) (4)
- Vendobionts: Lost Life Forms of Ediacaran Times (2014) (4)
- TRILOBITE TRACE FOSSILS MADE FOR MOULTING (2015) (4)
- Great revolutions in the history of life. (1997) (3)
- Short-term Changes Affecting Atmosphere, Oceans, and Sediments During the Phanerozoic (1984) (3)
- Constructional “mistakes” in the evolution of blastoid echinoderms (2004) (2)
- Problems of correlation in the Nubian Sandstone Facies (2017) (2)
- Burrowing and feeding of sand dollars as reflected in the functional differentiation of external structures (1982) (2)
- Puncoviscana folded belt in northwestern Argentina: testimony of Late Proterozoic Rodinia fragmentation and pre-Gondwana collisional episodes: a reply (2001) (1)
- Presentation of the Harrell L. Strimple Award of the Paleontological Society to Hans Hagdorn (1998) (1)
- Gastropod Heteromorphy: Or How to Get Out of the Spiral Syndrome (2014) (1)
- Soft-Bottom Corals (2014) (1)
- Estratigrafía evolutiva = Towards an evolutionary stratigraphy (1981) (0)
- Storm Tells: Interaction of Physical Events, Functional Adaptation, and Settling Behavior: ABSTRACT (1983) (0)
- Extinct Echinoderms: Deviant Symmetries and Armored Tube Feet (2014) (0)
- Cirripeds: Arthropods Become Sessile (2014) (0)
- Fabricational Noise in Body Shapes (2014) (0)
- Branching and Intercalating Patterns (2014) (0)
- Ammonites I: Outer Shell and Jaws (2014) (0)
- Bivalves II: Evolutionary Ecology (2014) (0)
- International Congress on Paleoecology -past and future (1984) (0)
- Plate Tectonics in an Expanding Globe: The constructional dilemma and fate of blastoid echinoderms (1997) (0)
- Ammonites III: Taphonomy (2014) (0)
- Bivalves I: Constructional and Morphogenetic Principles (2014) (0)
- Worm-like Organisms (2014) (0)
- Soft-Bottom Actinians and Jellyfish (2014) (0)
- Book reviewThe early evolution of metazoa and the significance of problematic taxa: A. Simonetta and S. C. Morris (Editors). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1991. Hardcover. 296 pp. Price £40.00 ISBN 0-521-40242-5 (1993) (0)
- Introduction: Principles of Morphodynamics (2014) (0)
- Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life: Evolutionary innovation versus ecological incumbency (2007) (0)
- Brachiopods: Bivalved Shells with a Difference (2014) (0)
- Lifestyles and Functional Convergence (2014) (0)
- Mosasaurs, Limpets and Diagenesis: Alternative Pathways to Punctured Ammonite Shells (1997) (0)
- Ammonites II: Septal Apparatus (2014) (0)
- Other Fabricational Morphospaces (2014) (0)
- Patterns of Evolution Versus Counter-Evolution (2014) (0)
- Self-organizing morphogenetic mechanisms as processors of evolution. (2022) (0)
- Mosasaur bites or punctured limpet home scars? (2008) (0)
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