Benjamin SAMES, Dipl.-Geol. Dr.
Raumnummer: 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
- Associate Editor of the Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences
- Visiting Staff, Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Current Projects:
2017–2019: IGCP 632 Subproject “Late Mesozoic lacustrine systems in Tunisia and their global correlation” within the scope of the Earth System Sciences Programme (ESS) of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) (PI in charge). See overview in FGGA’s news: http://fgga.univie.ac.at/en/research/research-portal-detail-view/news/in-the-footsteps-of-a-dinosaur/)
Lower Cretaceous (Hauterivian to Albian, ~133 to 100 million years ago) succession at Jebel Chemsi, Gafsa region, central Tunisia. © B. Sames
2015–2018: FWF P 27687 “Lower Cretaceous Climate and Non-marine Stratigraphy” (LCCNS) (PI in charge).
2013–2017: UNESCO-IUGS IGCP 609 “Climate-environmental deteriorations during greenhousephases: Causes andconsequences of short-term Cretaceous sea-levelchanges” (Project-Secretary)
Teaching:
current semester: no teaching in summer term 2018
Publications (peer-reviewed articles):
Xing, L., Sames, B., McKellar, R., Xi, D., Bai, M., Wan, X., 2018. A gigantic marine ostracod (Crustacea: Myodocopa) trapped in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Scientific Reports, 8, 1365. www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-19877-y *OPEN ACCESS*
Amber specimen DIP-V-17118 in natural light with lateral view of ostracod specimen (left valve, anterior end to the left) clearly visible. Orange dot represents the eye tubercle, dark brownish spots are insect frass particles (© and courtesy of Lida Xing, China University of Geosciences).
Veröffentlichungen (aus u:cris)
2014
Danielopol, DL, Baltanás, A, Carbonel, P, Colin, J-P, Crasquin, S, Decrouy, L, De Deckker, P, Gliozzi, E, Groos-Uffenorde, H, Horne, DJ, Iepure, S, Keyser, D, Kornicker, LS, Lord, A, Martens, K, Matzke-Karasz, R, Miller, CG, Oertli, HJ, Pugliese, N, Russo, A, Sames, B, Schön, I, Siveter, DJ, Smith, A, Viehberg, FA, Wouters, K & Yassini, I 2014, 'From Naples 1963 to Rome 2013 – A brief review of how the International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO) developed as a social communication system', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Jg. 419, S. 3-22. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.08.016
Queiroz Neto, JVD, Sames, B & Colin, J-P 2014, 'Kegelina: a new limnic ostracod (Cyprideidae, Crustacea) genus from the Lower Cretaceous of the Americas and Africa', Journal of Paleontology, Jg. 88, Nr. 4, S. 800-813. doi.org/10.1666/13-019
2013
Martin-Closas, C, Sames, B & Schudack, ME 2013, 'Charophytes from the Upper Berriasian of the Western Interior Basin of the United States', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 46, S. 11-23. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2013.08.009
Gebhardt, H, Coric, S, Darga, R, Briguglio, A, Schenk, B, Werner, W, Andersen, N & Sames, B 2013, 'Middle to Late Eocene palaeoenvironmental changes in a marine transgressive sequence from the northern Tethyan margin (Adelholzen, Germany)', Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, Jg. 106, Nr. 2, S. 45-72. <www.univie.ac.at/ajes/archive/volume_106_2/gebhardt_et_al_ajes_106_2.pdf>
2012
Sames, B & Horne, DJ 2012, 'Latest Jurassic to Cretaceous non-marine ostracod biostratigraphy: Unde venis, quo vadis?', Journal of Stratigraphy, Jg. 36, Nr. 2, S. 266-288.
2011
Sames, B 2011, 'Combined references for Taxonomic studies in Early Cretaceous nonmarine Ostracoda of North America', Micropaleontology, Jg. 57, Nr. 4-5, 5, S. 455-465. <www.jstor.org/stable/41410992>
Sames, B 2011, 'Early Cretaceous Cypridea Bosquet 1852 in North America and Europe', Micropaleontology, Jg. 57, Nr. 4-5, 3, S. 345-431. <www.jstor.org/stable/41410993>
Sames, B 2011, 'Early Cretaceous Theriosynoecum Branson 1936 in North America and Europe', Micropaleontology, Jg. 57, Nr. 4, 2, S. 291-344. <www.jstor.org/stable/41410992>
Sames, B 2011, 'Glossary of morphologic terms of late Mesozoic nonmarine Ostracoda, relevant to Theriosynoecum Branson 1936 and Cypridea Bosquet 1852', Micropaleontology, Jg. 57, Nr. 4-5, 4, S. 433-454. < www.jstor.org/stable/41410992>
2010
Sames, B, Whatley, R & Schudack, ME 2010, 'Praecypridea: A new non-marine ostracod genus from the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Europe, North and South America, and Africa', Journal of Micropalaeontology, Jg. 29, S. 163-176.
Sames, B, Cifelli, RL & Schudack, ME 2010, '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', Earth-Science Reviews, Jg. 101, S. 207-224.
Sames, B 2010, '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', Palaios, Jg. 25, S. 3-5.
2008
Sames, B 2008, 'Application of Ostracoda and Charophyta from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Tendaguru formation at Tendaguru, Tanzania (East Africa) – Biostratigraphy, Palaeobiogeography and Palaeoecology', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Jg. 264, Nr. 3-4, S. 213-229.