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PROFESSIONAL PALAEO CONSULTING
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Prof. Dr. Christian A. Meyer
Switzerland
more than 40 years of experience in palaeontology
EXPERTISE
Expertise for invertebrate and vertebrate fossils
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Fossil brittlestar
Geocoma schoentalensis HESS & MEYER
SURVEY
Drone survey & Photogrammetry
ADVICE
Museum advice
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Museum of Nature Solothurn
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Natural History Museum Basel
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Parque Cretacico (Bolivia)
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FIS Senckenberg (Germany)
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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Germany)
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Staatl. Museum Naturkunde Stuttgart (Germany)
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Staatl. Museum Naturkunde Karlsruhe (Germany)
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Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria)
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Unesco (IUCN)
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WHL
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SERNAP Toro Toro (Bolivia)
CONSULTING
Collection management
Conservation
Sustainable development of sites
Survey of excavation pits
SERVICES
Microfacies of carbonate thin sections
Stratigraphy
EDUCATION
Services
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Fieldtrips
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Lectures
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Talks
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Workshops
CONSULTING
Site surveys
Scientific translations: English/French/German
RESEARCH
Current projects
CRETACEOUS DINOSAUR ICHNOCOENOSIS OF BOLIVIA
Description of dinosaur tracks from the Cal Orck'o tracksite. We have been documenting the World largest tracksite since 1998. It comprises more than 12'000 footprints on a single surface of app. 60'000 sqm
Since 2019 we have enlarge our focus and have no the permit to work in the Parque Nacional de Toro Toro
PALAEOECOLOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF LATE TRIASSIC VERTEBRATE LAGERSTAETTEN IN NW SWITZERLAND
Reconstructing the depositional environment of Norian/Rhaetian vertebrate assemblages in NW Switzerland. We are focussing on the type locality of "Gresslyosaurus" close to Liestal and the nearby locality Frick, with many complete Plateosaurus specimens.
JURASSIC/CRETACEOUS DINOSAUR TRACKS OF NORTHERN CHILE
We are exploring and mapping the dinosaur track record in the Chilean Precordillera with a international team from Chile, Italy, Austria and Switzerland
JURASSIC DINOSAUR TRACKS OF SWITZERLAND
We are exploring and mapping the dinosaur track record in the Late Jurassic of Switzerland & France
Pictures:
Cal Orck'o, Bolivia
Hybodus, Rhaetian, Switzerland
Quebrada de Arcas, Chile
Montbautier, Switzerland
COLLABORATORS
ISMAR SOUZA DE CARAVALHO
Prof.
Universidade de Sao Paolo Brazil
DOROTHEE HIPPLER
Ass. Prof.
TU Graz, Austria
Geochemistry,
Stratigraphy
MATTEO BELVEDERE
Ass. Prof.
University of Firenze, Italy
Photogrammetry,
Ichnology
HENDRIK KLEIN
Paläontologisches Museum - Saurierwelt
Lara Sciscio
JURASSICA Museum Porrentruy
Switzerland
Ichnologist
Karl Stransky
Münchenbuchsee
Switzerland
Geologist
Climbing security
CHRISTIAN A. SALAZAR
Prof.
Universidad Mayor
Santiago de Chile
Ichnologist
Stratigraphy
SCIENTIFIC REVIEWS
Nature Comunications
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences
International Journal of Earth Sciences
Ameghiniana
Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
Revista española de paleontologÃa
Iberian Journal of Palaentology
Geological Society London Memoirs
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
BACKGROUND
University of Bern 1984
University of Bern 1984
MASTER IN GEOLOGY
Ph D. IN GEOLOGY/PALAEONTOLOGY
1988 - 1990 & 1994 - 1998
CURATOR EARTH SCIENCES
MUSEUM OF NATURE SOLOTHURN (CH)
1991 - 1993
POST DOC UNIVERSITY OF COLORADAO AT BOULDER
University of Vienna 1994 - 1998
VISITING PROFESSOR
University of Basel 1994
VENIA LEGENDI - HABILITATION
Natural History Museum of Basel (CH)
DIRECTOR 2001 - 2017
University of Basel 2009
PROFESSOR
University of Basel 2017 -
SENIOR SCIENTIST
For papers check out Research Gate
SOCIETIES
Swiss Palaeontological Association
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
International Ichnological Association
Swiss Geological Society
Swiss Academy of Sciences
European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Naturforschende Gesellschaft beider Basel
La Murithienne
Naturforschende Gesellschaft Oberwallis
