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Middle Palaeozoic (Devonian – Lower Carboniferous) ammonoids, conodonts, and trilobites
Global Events in the Middle Palaeozoic
Revision and refinement of Devonian/Carboniferous chronostratigraphy and geochronology (in the frame of the National and International Subcommissions on Devonian and Carboniferous Stratigraphy)
Facies developments, synsedimentary tectonic movements, and plate tectonic configurations/palaeogeography in the Devonian/Carbniferous of the external Variscides (northern and southern Europe, Morocco); relationships between Laurussia, NW Gondwana, and North America
Devonian reef complexes
Taxonomy, systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeobiology, and palaeobiogeography of other mid-Palaeozoic fossil groups
Trace fossils (M. Bertling)
Open topics concerning the palaeontology of the Münsterland and northern Sauerland (Cretaceous and Quarternary)
A focus on the Rhenish Massif, Franconia, southern France, Morocco, USA, Russia (Sibiria, Timan) and Western Australia
Other regions yielded fossils that have been or are currently subject of research: Thuringia, Belgium, northern France, SW-England, Carnic Alps, Holy Cross Mountains (Poland), Greece, Algeria, Northwest- and South China, Uzbekistan, Iran, Malaysia, Queensland, Victoria, Bolivia.
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2010
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2011
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2012
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2013
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2014-2015
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2016
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2017
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2018
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2019
Annual report of the working group Palaeontology - 2020