Benjamin SAMES, Dipl.-Geol. Dr.
Room Number: 2B385A
Tel.: +43-1-4277-53479
Personal Website: homepage.univie.ac.at/benjamin.sames/
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Research Interests/Expertise:
- Micropaleontology of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ostracoda (and Charophyta) with focus on Mesozoic non-marine deposits (Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous) of the world
- Integrated Stratigraphy (incl. biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy) with focus on the Cretaceous
- Fundamentals, principles and methods of the biostratigraphic application of (late) Mesozoic non-marine Ostracoda
- Paleoclimatology and climate change, ocean-land interactons and its impact on life and the hydrological circle with focus on the Cretaceous
- Cretaceous greenhouse climate, Mesozoic climate shifts and climate extremes
- Mesozoic evolution of non-marine/terrestrial habitats
- Ostracod biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, phylogeny
- Palaobiology and application of ostracod reproductive and dispersal mechanisms
- Origin and early evolution of non-marine ostracods
- Taxonomy and application of Late Jurassic-Cretaceous Charophyta
- Theoretical, practical and applied taxonomy
Other Affiliations and Professional Activities:
- Affiliate Research Associate, Collections Division Vertebrate Paleontoloy, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
- Stratigraphic Consultant, Petrobras (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Visiting Staff, Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Current Projects:
04/2020 – 04/2024: BrasCretOst I "Revision and integration of applied taxonomy of non-marine ostracods of the Buracica, Jiquiá and Alagoas local stages”, service contract funded by PETROBRAS (PI).
04/2022 – 03/2024: UNESCO-IUGS IGCP Project 710 – Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys, Subproject NOMAJU: “Non-marine – marine correlation and sea-level changes in the Mid-Jurassic Tethys: Tectonic versus climate events” funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) (PI).
Teaching:
SoSe 2022: MA-ERD-W-3.14 Advanced Stratigraphy and Carbonate Sedimentology
Publications (taken from u:cris)
2015
From Naples 1963 to Rome 2013 – A brief review of how the International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO) developed as a social communication system. / Danielopol, Dan Luca (Corresponding author); Baltanás, Angel; Carbonel, Pierre et al.
In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 419, No. 1, 2015, p. 3-22.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ostracods from the marginal coastal Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of the Central Tunisian Atlas (North Africa) : Paleoenvironment, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography. / Trabelsi, Khaled (Corresponding author); Sames, Benjamin; Samouna, Amal et al.
In: Revue de Micropaléontologie, Vol. 58, No. 4, 2015, p. 309 - 331.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2014
Kegelina: a new limnic ostracod (Cyprideidae, Crustacea) genus from the Lower Cretaceous of the Americas and Africa. / Queiroz Neto, Joao Villar de (Corresponding author); Sames, Benjamin; Colin, Jean-Paul.
In: Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 88, No. 4, 07.2014, p. 800-813.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Earliest Cretaceous mammals from the western United States. / Cifelli, Richard L. (Corresponding author); Davis, Brian M.; Sames, Benjamin.
In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Vol. 59, No. 1, 03.2014, p. 31-52.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Eustasy, its controlling factors, and the limno-eustatic hypothesis – concepts inspired by Eduard Suess. / Wagreich, Michael; Lein, Richard; Sames, Benjamin.
In: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 107, No. 1, 2014, p. 115 - 131.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2013
Charophytes from the Upper Berriasian of the Western Interior Basin of the United States. / Martin-Closas, Carles (Corresponding author); Sames, Benjamin; Schudack, Michael E.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 46, 2013, p. 11-23.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Middle to Late Eocene palaeoenvironmental changes in a marine transgressive sequence from the northern Tethyan margin (Adelholzen, Germany). / Gebhardt, Holger (Corresponding author); Coric, Stjepan; Darga, Robert et al.
In: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 106, No. 2, 2013, p. 45-72.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2012
Latest Jurassic to Cretaceous non-marine ostracod biostratigraphy: Unde venis, quo vadis? / Sames, Benjamin (Corresponding author); Horne, David J.
In: Journal of Stratigraphy, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2012, p. 266-288.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2011
Combined references for Taxonomic studies in Early Cretaceous nonmarine Ostracoda of North America. / Sames, Benjamin.
In: Micropaleontology, Vol. 57, No. 4-5, 5, 2011, p. 455-465.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Early Cretaceous Cypridea Bosquet 1852 in North America and Europe. / Sames, Benjamin.
In: Micropaleontology, Vol. 57, No. 4-5, 3, 2011, p. 345-431.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Early Cretaceous Theriosynoecum Branson 1936 in North America and Europe. / Sames, Benjamin.
In: Micropaleontology, Vol. 57, No. 4, 2, 2011, p. 291-344.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Glossary of morphologic terms of late Mesozoic nonmarine Ostracoda, relevant to Theriosynoecum Branson 1936 and Cypridea Bosquet 1852. / Sames, Benjamin.
In: Micropaleontology, Vol. 57, No. 4-5, 4, 2011, p. 433-454.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2010
Praecypridea: A new non-marine ostracod genus from the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Europe, North and South America, and Africa. / Sames, Benjamin (Corresponding author); Whatley, Robin; Schudack, Michael E.
In: Journal of Micropalaeontology, Vol. 29, 2010, p. 163-176.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The nonmarine Lower Cretaceous of the North American Western Interior foreland basin: new biostratigraphic results from ostracod correlations and early mammals, and their implications for paleontology and geology of the basin – an overview. / Sames, Benjamin (Corresponding author); Cifelli, Richard L.; Schudack, Michael E.
In: Earth-Science Reviews, Vol. 101, 2010, p. 207-224.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
To correlate or not to correlate―That is not the question anymore! Continental Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous supraregional correlation based on freshwater to brackish-water ostracodes. / Sames, Benjamin (Corresponding author).
In: Palaios, Vol. 25, 2010, p. 3-5.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2008
Application of Ostracoda and Charophyta from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Tendaguru formation at Tendaguru, Tanzania (East Africa) – Biostratigraphy, Palaeobiogeography and Palaeoecology. / Sames, Benjamin (Corresponding author).
In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 264, No. 3-4, 2008, p. 213-229.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review