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)
2022
Trabelsi, K, Tiss, L, Sames, B, Houla, Y, Hanini, A, Elferhi, F, Skanji, A, Kamoun, F, Zagrarni, MF & Wagreich, M 2022, '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', Geosciences (Switzerland), Jg. 12, Nr. 2, 93. doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12020093
2021
Dos Santos Filho, MAB, Fauth, G, Sames, B, Wolfgring, E & Villegas-Martin, J 2021, 'Paleoenvironmental analysis of a Lower Cretaceous Paleolake from the Iguatu Basin based on its ostracod fauna and XRF', Palaios, Jg. 36, Nr. 12, S. 356-376. doi.org/10.2110/palo.2021.006
Ősi, A, Szabó, M, Tóth, E, Bodor, E, Lobitzer, H, Kvacek, J, Svobodová, M, Szente, I, Wagreich, M, Trabelsi, K, Sames, B, Magyar, J, Makádi, L, Berning, B & Botfalvai, G 2021, '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', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 127, 104938. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104938
Chnayna, M, Sames, B, Trabelsi, K, Houla, Y, Hanini, A, Elferhi, F, Skanji, A, Wagreich, M & Soussi, M 2021, 'Discovery of a new Lower Cretaceous Wealden-type ostracod fauna from the Bouhedma Formation, Central Tunisian Atlas, North Africa', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 127, 104942. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104942
Qin, Z, Xi, D, Wagreich, M, Sames, B, Tong, X, Hu, J, Yu, Z & Wan, X 2021, 'Living environment of the early Jehol Biota: A case study from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation, Luanping Basin (North China)', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 124, 104833. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104833
Qin, Z, Xi, D, Sames, B, Ma, F, Ye, Y, Wu, B, Wang, X, Kamran, M & Wan, X 2021, 'Ostracods from the non-marine Lower Cretaceous interval at Liying section of Luanping Basin, North China: A stratigraphic correlation', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 123, 104743. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104743
Trabelsi, K, Sames, B, Wagreich, M, Kázmér, M, Mindszenty, A & Martín-Closas, C 2021, 'A new diverse charophyte flora and biozonation of the Eocene bauxite cover-sequence at Gánt (Vértes Hills, Hungary)', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Taylor & Francis, Jg. 19, Nr. 7, S. 541-563. doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2021.1938264
Landwehrs, JP, Feulner, G, Petri, S, Sames, B & Wagreich, M 2021, 'Investigating Mesozoic Climate Trends and Sensitivities with a Large Ensemble of Climate Model Simulations', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Jg. 36, Nr. 6, e2020PA004134. doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004134
Wolfgring, E, Wagreich, M, Hohenegger, J, Böhm, K, Turell, JD, Gier, S, Sames, B, Spötl, C & Jin, SD 2021, 'An integrated multi-proxy study of cyclic pelagic deposits from the north-western Tethys: the Campanian of the Postalm section (Gosau Group, Austria)', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 120, 104704. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104704
Santos Filho, MABD, Fauth, G & Sames, B 2021, 'Lower Cretaceous non-marine ostracods of the Oros Formation, Iguatu basin: Taxonomy and biostratigraphic considerations', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 118, Nr. 2021, 104634. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104634
Trabelsi, K, Sames, B, Nasri, A, Piovesan, EK, El Ferhi, F, Skanji, A, Houla, Y, Soussi, M & Wagreich, M 2021, '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', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 117, 104581. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104581
2020
Wang, H, Schädel, M, Sames, B & Horne, DJ 2020, 'New record of podocopid ostracods from Cretaceous amber', PeerJ, Jg. 8, 10134. doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10134
Sames, B, Wagreich, M, Conrad, CP & Iqbal, S 2020, 'Aquifer-eustasy as the main driver of short-term sea-level fluctuations during Cretaceous hothouse climate phases', Geological Society Special Publications, Jg. 498, Nr. 1, S. 9-38. doi.org/10.1144/SP498-2019-105
Wagreich, M, Hart, MB, Sames, B & Yilmaz, IO (Hrsg.) 2020, Cretaceous Climate Events and Short-Term Sea-Level Changes. Geological Society Special Publications, Bd. 498, Bd. 498, The Geological Society of London, London.
2019
Qin, Z, Xi, D, Sames, B, Pang, Q & Wan, X 2019, 'Advances in the Study of the Non-Marine Ostracods in Luanping Basin, Northern Hebei (North China): A Preliminary Result', Open Journal of Geology, Jg. 9, S. 601 - 604. doi.org/10.4236/ojg.2019.910052
Tiss, L, Trabelsi, K, Kamoun, F, Soussi, M, Houla, Y, Sames, B & Martín-Closas, C 2019, 'Middle Jurassic charophytes from southern Tunisia: Implications on evolution and paleobiogeography', Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Jg. 263, S. 65-84. doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.01.011
2018
Wolfgring, E, Wagreich, M, Dinares-Turell, J, Gier, S, Bohm, K, Sames, B, Spoetl, C & Popp, F 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)', Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Jg. 51, Nr. 4, S. 445-476. doi.org/10.1127/nos/2018/0392
Xing, L, Sames, B, McKellar, RC, Xi, D, Bai, M & Wan, X 2018, 'A gigantic marine ostracod (Crustacea: Myodocopa) trapped in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber', Scientific Reports, Jg. 8, 1365. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19877-y
Hammouda, SA, Sames, B, Adaci, M & Bensalah, M 2018, 'First record of non-marine ostracods from the Paleogene “hamadian deposits” of Méridja area, west of Bechar (southwestern Algeria)', Annales de paléontologie, Jg. 104, S. 27-44. doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2017.12.001
Qin, Z, Xi, D, Sames, B, Do Carmo, DA, Wang, X, Xu, Y, Yu, Z, Wei, F, Leite, AM & Wan, X 2018, 'Ostracods of the non-marine Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation at Yushuxia (Luanping basin, North China): Implications for the early Jehol Biota age', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 86, S. 199-218. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2018.03.010
2017
Sames, B (Hrsg.) 2017, 10th International Symposium on the Cretaceous – Abstracts, 21–26 August 2017, Vienna. Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Bd. 120, Bd. Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 120, Geologische Bundesanstalt. <opac.geologie.ac.at/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx>
Wang, Y, Sames, B, Liao, H, Xi, D & Pan, Y 2017, 'Late Cretaceous ostracod fauna from the Shenjiatun section (Songliao Basin, Northeast China): Biostratigraphic and palaeoecological implications', Cretaceous Research, Jg. 78, S. 174-190. doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.05.001
2016
Sames, B, Wagreich, M, Wendler, JE, Haq, BU, Conrad, CP, Melinte-Dobrinescu, MC, Hu, X, Wendler, I, Wolfgring, E, Yilmaz, I & Zorina, SO 2016, 'Review: Short-term sea-level changes in a greenhouse world - A view from the Cretaceous', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Jg. 441, Nr. 3, S. 393-411. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.10.045
Wagreich, M, Wendler, J, Sames, B & Wendler, I 2016, 'Greenhouse sea-level changes: Growing evidence for aquifer-driven eustasy', Beitrag in Historical Studies of Gondwana. 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, Südafrika, 27/08/16 - 2/09/16. <www.americangeosciences.org/sites/default/files/igc/2685.pdf>
Sames, B & Wagreich, M 2016, 'Unravelling short-term climate and sea-level changes in a greenhouse world – Evidence from the Cretaceous (IGCP 609)', Beitrag in Historical Studies of Gondwana. 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, Südafrika, 27/08/16 - 2/09/16. <www.americangeosciences.org/sites/default/files/igc/2400.pdf>