Prof. Dr. Alexander Nützel
Section Fossil Molluscs
Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology
Deputy Director, Senior Conservator Fossil Molluscs
Research interests
Phylogeny and evolution of gastropods (especially late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic); gastropods at the Permian/Triassic boundary; evolution of larval ecology of molluscs; systematics and taxonomy of gastropods.
- Evolution of the Late Palaeozoic Caenogastropoda
- Jurassic(Pliensbachium, Toarcium, Aalenium) Gastropod faunas of Franken
- Late Paleozoic larval palaeobiology (DFG NU 96/10-1; Förderungszeitraum:1. 5. 2006 bis 30. 4. 2009)
- Gastropod diversity and evolution at the turn from the Paleozoic to the Mesozoic (DFG NU 96/6-1, 6-2; Funding period: 2002 until 2005; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with Andrzej Kaim as scholarship holder since 2009)
- Evolution, phylogeny and taxonomy of selected superfamilies of the Gastropoda in the period Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic.(DFG NU 96/11-1; Förderungszeitraum:1. 2. 2009 bis 31. 1. 2011)