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)
2022
Modes of Pangean lake level cyclicity driven by astronomical climate pacing modulated by continental position and pCO 2. / Landwehrs, Jan; Feulner, Georg; Willeit, Matteo et al.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 46, e2203818119, 07.11.2022.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Non-marine ostracods of the Codó Formation (upper Aptian, Lower Cretaceous), Parnaíba Basin, NE Brazil: new biostratigraphic and paleoecological insights. / Barros, Cecília de Lima (Corresponding author); Silva, Sílvia Clara; Machado, Lucas Lage et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 133, 105125, 05.2022.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Ostracod Response to a Major Middle Jurassic Sea-Level Fall : A Case Study from Southern Tunisia (North Gondwana) with Implications on Regional Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction. / Trabelsi, Khaled; Tiss, Lassad; Sames, Benjamin et al.
In: Geosciences (Switzerland), Vol. 12, No. 2, 93, 02.2022.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
2021
Paleoenvironmental analysis of a Lower Cretaceous Paleolake from the Iguatu Basin based on its ostracod fauna and XRF. / Dos Santos Filho, Marcos Antonio Batista; Fauth, Gerson; Sames, Benjamin et al.
In: Palaios, Vol. 36, No. 12, 12.2021, p. 356-376.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
A brackish to non-marine aquatic and terrestrial fossil assemblage with vertebrates from the lower Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) Gosau Group of the Tiefengraben locality near St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Austria. / Ősi, Attila; Szabó, Márton; Tóth, Emőke et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 127, 104938, 11.2021.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Discovery of a new Lower Cretaceous Wealden-type ostracod fauna from the Bouhedma Formation, Central Tunisian Atlas, North Africa. / Chnayna, Manel (Corresponding author); Sames, Benjamin; Trabelsi, Khaled et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 127, 104942, 11.2021.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Living environment of the early Jehol Biota : A case study from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation, Luanping Basin (North China). / Qin, Zuohuan; Xi, Dangpeng (Corresponding author); Wagreich, Michael et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 124, 104833, 08.2021.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Ostracods from the non-marine Lower Cretaceous interval at Liying section of Luanping Basin, North China: A stratigraphic correlation. / Qin, Zuohuan; Xi, Dangpeng (Corresponding author); Sames, Benjamin (Corresponding author) et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 123, 104743, 07.2021.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
A new diverse charophyte flora and biozonation of the Eocene bauxite cover-sequence at Gánt (Vértes Hills, Hungary). / Trabelsi, Khaled; Sames, Benjamin; Wagreich, Michael et al.
In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 19, No. 7, 26.06.2021, p. 541-563.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Investigating Mesozoic Climate Trends and Sensitivities with a Large Ensemble of Climate Model Simulations. / Landwehrs, Jan Philip; Feulner, Georg; Petri, Stefan et al.
In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Vol. 36, No. 6, e2020PA004134, 20.05.2021.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
An integrated multi-proxy study of cyclic pelagic deposits from the north-western Tethys: the Campanian of the Postalm section (Gosau Group, Austria). / Wolfgring, E. (Corresponding author); Wagreich, M.; Hohenegger, J. et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 120, 104704, 04.2021.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Lower Cretaceous non-marine ostracods of the Oros Formation, Iguatu basin : Taxonomy and biostratigraphic considerations. / Santos Filho, Marcos Antnio Batista dos; Fauth, Gerson; Sames, Benjamin.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 118, No. 2021, 104634, 02.2021.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Ostracods as proxies for marginal marine to non-marine intervals in the mid-Cretaceous carbonate platform of the Central Tunisian Atlas (North Africa): Response to major short-term sea-level falls. / Trabelsi, Khaled (Corresponding author); Sames, Benjamin; Nasri, Ahmed et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 117, 104581, 01.2021.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
2020
New record of podocopid ostracods from Cretaceous amber. / Wang, He; Schädel, Mario; Sames, Benjamin et al.
In: PeerJ, Vol. 8, 10134, 26.10.2020.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Aquifer-eustasy as the main driver of short-term sea-level fluctuations during Cretaceous hothouse climate phases. / Sames, Benjamin; Wagreich, Michael; Conrad, Clinton P. et al.
In: Geological Society Special Publications, Vol. 498, No. 1, 2020, p. 9-38.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Cretaceous Climate Events and Short-Term Sea-Level Changes. / Wagreich, Michael (Editor); Hart, Malcolm B. (Editor); Sames, Benjamin (Editor) et al.
London : The Geological Society of London, 2020. (Geological Society Special Publications, Vol. 498).Publications: Book › Collection › Peer Reviewed
2019
Advances in the Study of the Non-Marine Ostracods in Luanping Basin, Northern Hebei (North China): A Preliminary Result. / Qin, Zuohuan; Xi, Dangpeng; Sames, Benjamin et al.
In: Open Journal of Geology, Vol. 9, 23.09.2019, p. 601 - 604.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Middle Jurassic charophytes from southern Tunisia: Implications on evolution and paleobiogeography. / Tiss, Lassad; Trabelsi, Khaled; Kamoun, Fekri et al.
In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Vol. 263, 04.2019, p. 65-84.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
2018
The Santonian-Campanian boundary and the end of the Long Cretaceous Normal Polarity-Chron : Isotope and plankton stratigraphy of a pelagic reference section in the NW Tethys (Austria). / Wolfgring, Erik; Wagreich, Michael; Dinares-Turell, Jaume et al.
In: Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Vol. 51, No. 4, 09.2018, p. 445-476.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Ostracods of the non-marine Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation at Yushuxia (Luanping basin, North China): Implications for the early Jehol Biota age. / Qin, Zuohuan; Xi, Dangpeng; Sames, Benjamin et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 86, 06.2018, p. 199-218.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
A gigantic marine ostracod (Crustacea: Myodocopa) trapped in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. / Xing, Lida; Sames, Benjamin; McKellar, Ryan C. et al.
In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1365, 22.01.2018.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
First record of non-marine ostracods from the Paleogene “hamadian deposits” of Méridja area, west of Bechar (southwestern Algeria). / Hammouda, Sid Ahmed; Sames, Benjamin; Adaci, Mohammed et al.
In: Annales de paléontologie, Vol. 104, No. 1, 2018, p. 27-44.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
2017
Late Cretaceous ostracod fauna from the Shenjiatun section (Songliao Basin, Northeast China): Biostratigraphic and palaeoecological implications. / Wang, Yaqiong; Sames, Benjamin; Liao, Huanyu et al.
In: Cretaceous Research, Vol. 78, 10.2017, p. 174-190.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
2016
Greenhouse sea-level changes: Growing evidence for aquifer-driven eustasy. / Wagreich, Michael; Wendler, Jens; Sames, Benjamin et al.
2016. Paper presented at Historical Studies of Gondwana. 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed
Unravelling short-term climate and sea-level changes in a greenhouse world – Evidence from the Cretaceous (IGCP 609). / Sames, Benjamin; Wagreich, Michael.
2016. Paper presented at Historical Studies of Gondwana. 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed