Om ook het kwartair met de machtige mammoeten en de prachtige paarden onder de loep te nemen, kunnen wij met vreugd mededelen dat de Paleobiologische Kring van het KNGMG op zaterdag 13 oktober een excursie zal organiseren naar de Zandmotor! De zandmotorexcursie 2018 zal plaatsvinden onder begeleiding van de conservator van het Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam […]
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PaleoTime-NL Internationale Fossilienbörse 2019
— for English version, click here — Am 9. März 2019 richteten das Niederländisch-Belgische Website/Forum Paleontica-Fossiel.net, die Werkgroep Fossielen Wageningen, und der Niederländisch-Belgische Verein “De Paleobiologische Kring” in enger Kooperation miteinander zum fünften Mal eine Internationaler Fossilienbörseaus in die Niederlande, weniger als 100 Kilometer entfernt von der deutsch-niederländischen Grenze. Diese Börse, unter dem Namen PaleoTime-NL, ist die größte paläontologische Veranstaltung in den […]
Dr. Adiël Klompmaker
Dr. Adiël Klompmaker, postdoctoral researcher at the Museum of Paleontology of the University of California Berkeley (USA), studied Earth Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After graduating in 2006, he started a PhD research in Applied Geology at Kent State University in Ohio (USA) in 2008, on Mesozoic crustaceans. After completing his PhD dissertation, […]
Dr. Matúš Hyžný
Dr. Matúš Hyžný received his PhD. at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2012, and since then he is a researcher at a full-time position there. During his postdoc research stay in 2013–2015 he was affiliated with Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria. His research mainly focuses on systematics and biogeography of Cenozoic decapod crustaceans. […]
Dr. Cees Hof
Dr. Cees Hof (DANS-KNAW) started his academic career as an aquatic ecologist and received his MSc degree (Cum Laude) from the Radboud University in Nijmegen (NL). Thereafter he moved into animal systematics, palaeontology and geochemistry for his PhD research at the University of Amsterdam (NL) and postdoctoral research at the University of Bristol (UK). His research […]
Prof. Stephen Donovan
Professor Stephen K. Donovan, researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, studied geology at the universities of Manchester (B.Sc.) and Liverpool (Ph.D., D.Sc.). He was a post-doctoral research fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. Steve was on the teaching staff of the Department of Geology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, from 1986 to 1998, where he was […]
Dr. John Jagt
Dr John Jagt, staff member of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht (a municipal museum) since January 1991, considers himself to be something of an anachronism – a truly nineteenth-century natural scientist living in the twenty-first! Following his PhD defence (entitled “Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeogene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and northeast Belgium”) at […]
Barry van Bakel
Barry van Bakel, palaeontologist and carcinologist for 20+ years, studies fossil crabs with focus on the primitive crabs (podotremata). He is associated researcher at the Oertijdmuseum and Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Comparative morphology with extant congeners and macroevolution are typical aspects of his recent work. In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious Van Der Lijn onderscheiding, […]
PaleoTime-NL international fossil show 2019
On Saterday, March the 9th 2019, PaleoTime-NL, the yearly international fossil show of Paleontica-Fossiel.net, the Paleobiologische Kring and the Werkgroep Fossielen Wageningen, will be held again. The past 4 years, this fossil show was held at the ROVC, in the town of Ede. Sadly, om May the 22nd 2018, this location burnt down, forcing us to find a […]
An introduction to fossil Crustacea, with emphasis on hermit crab evolution
Dr. René H.B. Fraaije info@oertijdmuseum.nl Het Oertijdmuseum (Boxtel, The Netherlands) Friday, 28th of September 2018 (10:45-11:30) at the international symposium “Crustacea Through Time“ Crustaceans (phylum Arthropoda) are a group of invertebrate animals comprising some 50,000 species that are distributed worldwide. Crabs, lobsters, shrimps and isopods are among the best-known crustaceans. Having appeared first during the Early Cambrian period, crustaceans […]