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
- 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
Veröffentlichungen (aus u:cris)
2015
Trabelsi, K, Sames, B, Samouna, A, Piovesan, EK, Ben Rouina, S, Houla, Y, Touir, J & Soussi, M 2015, 'Ostracods from the marginal coastal Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of the Central Tunisian Atlas (North Africa): Paleoenvironment, biostratigraphy and paleobiography', Revue de Micropaléontologie, Jg. 58, Nr. 4, S. 309 - 331. doi.org/10.1016/j.revmic.2015.09.002
2014
Cifelli, RL, Davis, BM & Sames, B 2014, 'Earliest Cretaceous mammals from the western United States', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Jg. 59, Nr. 1, S. 31-52. doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0089
Wagreich, M, Lein, R & Sames, B 2014, 'Eustasy, its controlling factors, and the limno-eustatic hypothesis – concepts inspired by Eduard Suess', Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, Jg. 107, Nr. 1, S. 115 - 131.
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.