Techincal Publications

in press

• Klug, S. & Kriwet, J. in press. Node age estimations and the origin of angel sharks, Squatiniformes (Neoselachii, Squalomorphii). Journal of Systematic Paleontology.

• Stepanek, R. & Kriwet, J. in press. Contributions to the skeletal anatomy of freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes, Myliobatiformes): 1. Morphology of male Potamotrygon motor from South America. Zoosystematics and Evolution.

2012

• Licht, M., Schmuecker, K., Huelsken, T., Hanel, R., Bartsch, P. & Paeckert, M. 2012 (online first). Contribution to the molecular phylogenetic analysis of extant holocephalan fishes (Holocephali, Chimaeriformes). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. DOI 10.1007/s13127-011-0071-1

2011

• Kriwet, J. & Klug, S. 2011. An embryonic mandibular tooth plate and associated remains of a Late Jurassic chimaeroid (Holocephali, Chimaeriformes) from the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(5): 954-961.

• Kriwet, J. & Klug, S. 2011. A new Jurassic cow shark (Chondrichthyes, Hexanchiformes) with comments on Jurassic hexanchiform systematics. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104 (suppl. 1): 107-114.

• Licht, M. 2011. A short contribution about the pycnodont fishes (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) from Lower Saxony (NW-Germany) described by Fricke (1876). Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 47 (1): 69-76.

• Licht, M. & Kogan, I. 2011. Late Cretaceous pycnodont fishes (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) from Saxony (Eastern Germany). Freiberger Forschungshefte C 540: 79-90.

• Straube, N., Duhamel, G., Gasco, N., Kriwet, J. & Schliewen, U. 2011. Description of a new deep-sea lantern shark, Etmopterus viator n. sp. (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the southern hemisphere. In Duhamel, G. & Welsford, D. (eds). The Kerguelen Plateau, Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries. Société Française d´Ichtyologie: pp. 137-150.

• Straube, N., Kriwet, J. & Schliewen, U. 2011. Cryptic diversity and species assignment of large lantern sharks of the Etmopterus spinax clade from the Southern Hemisphere (Squaliformes, Etmopteridae). Zoologica Scripta 40: 61-75.

2010

• Klug, S. 2010. Monophyly, Phylogeny and Systematic Position of the Synechodontiformes (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii). Zoologica Scripta 39: 37-49.

• Klug, S. & Kriwet, J. 2010. Timing of deep-sea adaptation in dogfish sharks: insights from a supertree of extinct and extant taxa. Zoologica Scripta 39: 331-342.

• Klug, S. & Kriwet, J. 2010. A new Late Jurassic species of the rare synechodontiform shark, Welcommia (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84: 413-419.

• Klug, S., Tuetken, T., Wings, O.,Pfretzschner, H.-U. & Martin, T. 2010. A Late Jurassic freshwater shark assemblage (Chondrichthyes, Hybodontiformes) from the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment 90: 241-257.

• Kriwet, J., Endo H. & Stelbrink, B. 2010. On the occurrence of the Taiwan angel shark, Squatina formosa Shen & Ting, 1972 (Chondrichthyes, Squatinidae) from Japan. Zoosystematics and Evolution 86: 117-124.

• Schmitz, L., Thies, D. & Kriwet, J. 2010. Two new lamniform sharks (Leptostyrax stychi sp. nov. and Protolamna sarstedtensis sp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous of NW Germany. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen 257 (3): 283-296.

• Stelbrink, B., Rintelen, T. von, Cliff, G. & Kriwet, J. 2010. Molecular systematics and global phylogeography of angel sharks (Genus Squatina). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 395-404.

• Straube, N., Iglésias, S.P., Sellos, D.Y., Kriwet, J. & Schliewen, U. 2010. Molecular Phylogeny and Node Time Estimation of Bioluminescent Lantern Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Etmopteridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 905-917.

2009

• Klug, S. 2009. A new palaeospinacid shark (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2): 326-335.

• Klug, S., Kriwet, J., Böttcher, R., Schweigert, G. & Dietl, G. 2009. Skeletal anatomy of the extinct shark Paraorthacodus jurensis (Chondrichthyes; Palaeospinacidae), with comments on synechodontiform and palaeospinacid monophyly. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 107-134.

• Kriwet, J. & Klug, S. 2009. Fossil record and origin of squaliform sharks (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii). In Gallucci, V., McFarlane, G. & Bargmann, G. (eds). Biology and Management of dogfish sharks. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland: 19-38.

• Kriwet, J., Kiessling, W. & Klug, S. 2009. Diversification trajectories and evolutionary life-history traits in early sharks and batoids. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Series 276: 945-951.

• Kriwet, J., Nunn, E.V. & Klug, S. 2009. Neoselachians (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Lower and lower Upper Cretaceous of north-eastern Spain. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155: 316-347.

• Licht, M. 2009. Is it possible to determine a special fish group by one habitat?: A short discussion. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 45(2): 181-186.

• Licht, M. 2009. The relationship of prearticular length and standard length in pycnodontiform fishes. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 45(2): 139-148.

• Schneider, S., Berning, B., Bitner, M. A., Carriol, R.-P., Jäger, M., Kriwet, J., Kroh, A. & Werner, W. 2009. A parautochthonous shallow marine fauna from the Late Burdigalian (early Ottnangian) of Gurlarn (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany): Macrofaunal inventory and paleoecology. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 254: 63-103.

2008

• Carvalho, M.R., Kriwet, J. & Thies, D. 2008. A systematic and anatomical revision of Late Jurassic angelsharks (Chondrichthyes: Squatinidae). In Arratia, G., Schultze, H.-P. & Wilson, M.V.H. (eds). Mesozoic Fishes 4 - Homology and Phylogeny. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München: 469-502.

• Klug, S. 2008. The Late Jurassic neoselachian Macrourogaleus Fowler, 1947 is a palaeospinacid shark (Elasmobranchii; Synechodontiformes). Acta Geologica Polonica 58: 229-234.

• Klug, S. & Kriwet, J. 2008. A new basal galeomorph shark (Synechodontiformes, Neoselachii) from the Early Jurassic of Europe. Naturwissenschaften 95: 443-448.

• Klug, S., Kriwet, J., Lirio, M. & Nunez, H. 2008. Synechodontiform sharks (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. In Arratia, G., Schultze, H.-P. & Wilson, M.V.H. (eds). Mesozoic Fishes 4 - Homology and Phylogeny. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München: 455-467.

• Kriwet, J. 2008. A Late Jurassic carpetshark (Neoselachii, Orectolobiformes) from southern Germany. In Arratia, G., Schultze, H.-P. & Wilson, M.V.H. (eds). Mesozoic Fishes 4 - Homology and Phylogeny. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München: 443-454.

• Kriwet, J. 2008. The dentition of the enigmatic pycnodont fish Athrodon wittei (Fricke, 1876) (Neopterygii; Pycnodontiformes), from the Late Jurassic of NW Germany. Fossil Record 11(2): 61-66.

• Kriwet, J. 2008. A new species of extinct bullhead sharks, Paracestracion viohli sp. nov. (Neoselachii, Heterodontiformes), from the Upper Jurassic of South Germany. Acta Geologica Polonica 58: 235-241.

• Kriwet, J. 2008. Erratum. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28: 578.

• Kriwet, J. & Hecht, T. 2008. A review early gadiform evolution and diversification: first record of a rattail fish skull (Gadiformes, Macrouridae) from the Eocene of Antarctica, with otoliths preserved in situ. Naturwissenschaften 95: 899-907.

• Kriwet, J. & Klug, S. 2008. Diversity and biogeography patterns of Late Jurassic neoselachians (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii). In Cavin, L., Longbottom, A. & Richter, M. (eds). Fishes and the Break-up of Pangaea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 295: 55-69.

• Kriwet, J., Klug, S., Canudo, J.I. & Cuenca-Bescos, G. 2008. A new Early Cretaceous lamniform shark: Eoptolamna eccentrolopha gen. et sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 278-290.

• Kriwet, J., Witzmann, F., Klug, S. & Heidtke, U.H.J. 2008. First direct evidence of a vertebrate three-level trophic chain in the fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 275: 181-186.

• Ruthensteiner, B., Reinicke G.B., & Straube N. 2008. The Type Material of Hydrozoa described by Eberhard Stechow in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Spixiana 31: 3-27.

• Straube, N., Schliewen, U. & Kriwet, J. 2008. Dental structure of the Giant lantern shark Etmopterus baxteri (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes) and its taxonomic implications. Environmental Biology of Fishes 82: 133-141.

2007

• Klug, S. 2007. A short synopsis of Cretaceous synechodontiform sharks (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from Antarctica. Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, Beiheft 23: 133-134.

• Kriwet, J. & Klug, S. 2007. Late Jurassic diversity and geographic patterns of neoselachians (Chondrichthyes). Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, Beiheft 23: 131-132.

• Kriwet, J., Soler-Gijón, R. & López-Martínez, N. 2007. Neoselachian faunas from the upper Campanian and lower Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of the southern Pyreneens (northern Spain). Palaeontology 50: 1-21.

• Pucéat, E., Lécuyer, C., Donnadieu, Y., Naveau, P., Cappetta, H., Ramstein, G., Huber, B.T. & Kriwet, J. 2007. Fish tooth delta¹⁸O revising Late Cretaceous meridional upper ocean water temperature gradients. Geology 35(2): 107-110.

2006

• Klug, S. & Kriwet, J. 2006. Anatomy and systematics of the Early Jurassic neoselachian shark Synechodus smith-woodwardi (Fraas, 1896) from southern Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 2006(4): 193-211.

• Kriwet, J. 2006. Biology and dental morphology of Priscusurus adruptodontus gen. et sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from the Albian (Early Cretaceous) of Peru. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26: 583-543.

• Kriwet, J., Lirio, M., Nunez, H. Puceat, E. & Lécuyer, C. 2006. Late Cretaceous Antarctic fish diversity. In Pirrie, D., Francis, J. E. & Crame J. A. (eds). Cretaceous-Tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments, James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Geological Society of London Special Publication 258: 83-100.

• Kriwet, J., Thies, D. & Müller, A. 2006. Paraphorosoides gen. nov., a replacement name for Palaeomicroides Thies and Müller, 1993 (Chondrichthyes, Squaliformes), a preoccupied name. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26: 487.

2005

• Kiessling, W., Aragón, E., Scasso, R., Aberhan, M., Kriwet, J., Fracchia, D., Medina, F. 2005. Massive corals in Paleocene siliclastic sediments of Chubut (Patagonia, Argentina). Facies 51: 233-241.

• Kriwet, J. 2005a. A comprehensive study of the skull and dentition of pycnodont fishes (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes. Zitteliana 45: 135-188.

• Kriwet, J. 2005b. An amioid fish (Neopterygii, Amiiformes) from the Late Jurassic of the Iberian Peninsula. Geobios 38: 99-106.

• Kriwet, J. 2005c. Additions to the Eocene selachian fauna of Antarctica with comments on Antarctic selachian diversity. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25: 1-7.

• Kriwet, J. & Schmitz, L. 2005. New insight into the distribution and palaeobiology of the pycnodont fish Gyrodus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50: 49-56.

2004

• Arratia, G., López-Arbarello, A., Prasad, G.V.R., Parnar, V. & Kriwet, J. 2004. Late Cretaceous-Paleocene percomorphs (Teleostei) from India Early radiation of Perciformes. In Arratia, G.& Cloutier, R. (eds). Recent advances in Vertebrate Paleontology: 635-655; Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München.

• Kriwet, J. & Klug, S. 2004. Late Jurassic selachians (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from southern Germany: Re-evaluation on taxonomy and diversity. Zitteliana A44: 67-95.

• Delsate, D. & Kriwet, J. 2004. Late Triassic pycnodont fish remains (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Germanic basin. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 97: 183-191.

• Kriwet, J. & Benton, M. 2004. Neoselachian (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) diversity across the K/T boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 214: 181-194.

• Kriwet, J. 2004c. A new pycnodont fish genus (Neopterygii: Pycnodontiformes) from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Mount Lebanon and its interrelationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24: 525-532.

• Kriwet, J. 2004b. The systematic position of the Cretaceous sclerorhynchid sawfishes (Elasmobranchii, Pristiorajea). In Arratia, G. & Tintori, A. (eds). Mesozoic Fishes 3 Systematics, Paleoenvironment and Biodiversity: 57-74; Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München.

• Kriwet, J. 2004a. Late Jurassic selachians (Chondrichthyes: Hybodontiformes, Neoselachii) from Central-Portugal. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 4: 233-256.

2003

• Kriwet, J. 2003a. First record of Early Cretaceous shark (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from Antarctica. Antarctic Science 15: 519-523.

• Kriwet, J. 2003b. Neoselachian remains (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Middle Jurassic of SW Germany and NW Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(4): 587-598.

• Kriwet, J. 2003c. Lancetfish teeth (Neoteleostei, Alepisauroidei) from the Early Cretaceous of Alcaine, NE Spain. Lethaia 36: 323-331.

• Kriwet, J. 2003d. Dental Morphology of the pycnodont fish Stemmatodus rhombus (Agassiz 1844) (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Early Cretaceous with comments on its systematic position. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 94: 145-155.

• Kriwet, J. & Gazdzicki, A. 2003. A new Chimeroid fish (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from the Eocene La Meseta Fm. of Seymour Island. Polish Polar Research 24: 29-51.

2002

• Aberhan, M., Bussert, R., Heinrich, W.-D., Schrank, E., Schultka, S., Sames, B., Kriwet, J. & Kapilima, S. 2002. Palaeoecology and depositional environments of the Tendaguru Beds (Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, Tanzania). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlins, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 5: 19-44.

• Arratia, G., Kriwet, J. & Heinrich, W.-D. 2002. Selachians and actinopterygians from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 5: 207-230.

• Kriwet, J. 2002a. Anomoeodus pauciseriale, a new pycnodont fish (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the White Chalk Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Sussex, South England. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 76(1): 117-123.

• Kriwet, J. 2002b. Pycnodont fish remains (Neopterygii: Pycnodontiformes) from the Upper Jurassic of the Lusitanian basin. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 10: 577-587.

2001

• Kriwet, J. 2001a. Palaeobiogeography of pycnodontiform fishes (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii). Seminario de Paleontología de Zaragoza 5.1: 121-130.

• Kriwet, J. 2001b. Feeding mechanisms and ecology of pycnodont fishes (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 4: 139-165.

• Kriwet, J. & Kussius, K. 2001. Paleobiology and Paleobiogeography of slerorhynchid sawfishes (Chondrichthyes, Batomorphii). Revista espanola de Paleontología nr extraordinario: 35-46.

1999 / 2000

• Kriwet, J. 2000a. The fish fauna from the Guimarota mine. In Martin, Th. & Krebs, B. (eds). Guimarota A Jurassic ecosystem: 41-50; Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München.

• Kriwet, J. 2000b. Revision of Mesturus cordillera Martill et al., 1998 (Actinopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) of northern Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3): 450-455.

• Kriwet, J. 1999a. Neoselachier (Pisces, Elasmobranchii) aus der Unterkreide (unteres Barremium) von Galve und Alcaine (Spanien, Provinz Teruel). Palaeo Ichthyologica 9: 113-142.

• Kriwet, J. 1999b. Ptychotrygon geyeri n. sp. (Chondrichthyes, Rajiformes) from the Utrillas Formation (upper Albian) of the central Iberian Ranges (East-Spain). Profil 16: 337-346.

• Kriwet, J. 1999c Pycnodont fishes (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Una (Cuenca Province, E-Spain) and branchial teeth in pycnodontid fishes. In Arratia, G. & Schultze, H.-P. (eds): Mesozoic Fishes - Systematics and the fossil record: 215-238; Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München.

• Kriwet, J., Poyato-Ariza, F. & Wenz, S. 1999. A revision of Coelodus subdiscus Wenz, 1989 (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Early Cretaceous of Montsec de Rubies (Lérida). Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 8: 33-65.

• Schultze, H.-P. & Kriwet, J. 1999. Die Fische der Germanischen Trias. In Hauschke, N. & Wilde, V. (eds). Trias. Eine ganz andere Welt. Mitteleuropa im frühen Erdmittelalter: 239-250; Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München.

before 1999

• Bellas, S.M., Kussius, K., Kommerell, J.K. & Kriwet, J. 1998. Integrated biostratigraphical approach of the Neogene Pigadia basin of Karpathos Island (Dodecanes Group, Greece) - Implications on the depositional palaeoenvironment based on calcareous nannofossils, ostracodes and facies development with special references to Messinian fish assemblages. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E 28: 129-156.

• Kriwet, J. 1998. Late Jurassic elasmobranch and actinopterygian fishes from Portugal and Spain. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica 24: 241-260.

• Kriwet, J. 1997. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fischfauna des Oberjura (unteres Kimmeridgium) der Kohlengrube Guimarota bei Leiria, Mittel-Portugal: 2. Neoselachii (Pisces, Elasmobranchii). Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E 25: 293-301.

• Kriwet, J., Rauhut, O.W.M. & Gloy, U. 1997. Microvertebrate remains (Pisces, Archosauria) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of southern France. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 206(1): 1-28.

• Kriwet, J. 1995. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fisch-Fauna des Ober-Jura (unteres Kimmeridge) der Kohlengrube Guimarota bei Leiria, Mittel-Portugal: 1. Asteracanthus biformatus n. sp. (Chondrichthyes: Hybodontoidea). Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E 16: 683-691.

• Kriwet, J. & Gloy, U. 1995. Zwei mesopelagische Raubfische (Actinopterygii: Euteleostei) aus dem Unterturon der Kronsberg-Mulde bei Hannover/Misburg (NW-Deutschland). Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E 16: 335-355.

• Rauhut, O.W.M. & Kriwet, J. 1994. Teeth of a big theropod dinosaur from Porto das Barcas (Portugal). Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E 13: 179-185.