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Publikationen
Dr. Daniela Schwarz
Krebs, B. & Schwarz, D. (2000). The crocodiles from the Guimarota mine. P. 69-74. In: Martin, T. & Krebs, B. (eds). Guimarota. A Jurassic Ecosystem. 155 Seiten, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München.
Schwarz, D. (2002). A new species of Goniopholis from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. – Palaeontology 45 (1): 185-208.
Schwarz, D. (2003). A procoelous crocodilian vertebra from the lower Tertiary of Central Africa (Cabinda enclave, Angola). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2003 (6): 376-384.
Jouve, S. & Schwarz, D. (2004). Congosaurus bequaerti, a Paleocene dyrosaurid (Crocodyliformes; Mesoeucrocodylia) from Landana (Angola) – Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 74: 129-146.
Schwarz, D. & Fechner, R. (2004). Lusitanisuchus, a new genus name for Lisboasaurus mitracostatus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia), with a description of new remains from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) and Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Portugal. – Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41: 1259-1271.
Schwarz, D., Meyer, C. A., Lehmann, E. H., Vontobel, P. & Bongartz, G. (2005). Testing Neutron tomography in comparison with X-ray computed tomography as a technique for the investigation of the internal structure of sauropod vertebrae and ribs. – Palaeontologia Electronica 8(2).30A. online
Schwarz, D. & Salisbury, S. W. (2005). A new species of Theriosuchus (Atoposauridae, Crocodilia) from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Guimarota, Portugal. – Géobios 38: 779-802.
Karl, H.-V., Gröning, E., Brauckmann, C., Schwarz, D. & Knötschke, N. (2006). The Late Jurassic crocodiles of the Langenberg near Oker, Lower Saxony (Germany), and description of related materials (with remarks on the history of quarrying the “Langenberg Limestone” and “Obernkirchen Sandstone”). – Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 5: 59-77.
Schwarz, D., Frey, E. & Martin, T. (2006). The postcranial skeleton of the Hyposaurinae (Dyrosauridae; Crocodyliformes). – Palaeontology 49 (4): 695-718.
Schwarz, D. (2006). Abstammung und Evolution der Krokodile. S. 19-32, In: Trutnau, L. & Sommerlad, R. (Hrsg.) Krokodile. Biologie und Haltung. 646 Seiten, Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.
Schwarz, D., Meyer, C. A. & Frey, E. (2006). Pneumaticity in neck and trunk of sauropods and implications for locomotion and ecology. p. 114-117. In: Barrett, P. M. & Evans, S. E. (eds.) Ninth International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Abstracts and Proceedings, Natural History Museum, London.
Schwarz, D. & Fritsch, G. (2006). Pneumatic structures in the cervical vertebrae of the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) Tendaguru sauropods Brachiosaurus brancai and Dicraeosaurus. – Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 99: 65-78.
Schwarz, D., Wings, O. & Meyer, C. A. (2007). Super sizing the giants: first cartilage preservation at a sauropod limb joint. – Journal of the Geological Society, 164: 61-65.
Schwarz, D., Frey, E. & Meyer, C. A. (2007). Pneumaticity and soft-tissue reconstructions in the neck of diplodocid and dicraeosaurid sauropods. – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 52 (1): 167-188.
Schwarz, D., Frey, E. & Meyer, C. A. (2007). Novel reconstruction of the orientation of the pectoral girdle in sauropods. – Anatomical Record, 290: 32-47.
Schwarz, D., Ikejiri, T., Breithaupt, B., Sander, P. M. & Klein, N. (2007). A nearly complete skeleton of an early juvenile diplodocid (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Lower Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) of North Central Wyoming and its implications for pneumaticity and early ontogeny in Sauropods. – Historical Biology, 19 (3): 225-253.
Schwarz, D. & Fechner, R. (2008). The first dentary of Lisboasaurus (Crocodylomorpha, ?Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Una, Cuenca Province, Spain. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (1): 264-268.
Schwarz-Wings, D. & Frey, E. (2008). Is There An Option for a Pneumatic Stabilization of Sauropod Necks? – An Experimental and Anatomical Approach. - Palaeontologia Electronica 11 (3) 17A: 26p; palaeo-electronica.org/2008_3/155/index.html
Schwarz-Wings, D. (2009). Approach to the reconstruction of the thoracic epaxial musculature of sauropod dinosaurs. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29 (2): 517-534
Schwarz-Wings, D., Frey, E. & Martin, T. (2009). Reconstruction of the bracing system of the trunk and tail in hyposaurine dyrosaurs (Crocodylomorpha; Mesoeucrocodylia). – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29 (2): 453-472
Schwarz-Wings, D., Rees, J. & Lindgren, J. (2009). Lower Cretaceous Mesoeucrocodylians from Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden). – Cretaceous Research, 30: 1345-1355
Knoll, F. & Schwarz-Wings, D. (2009). Palaeoneuroanatomy of Brachiosaurus. - Annales de Paléontologie, 95: 165-175
Schellhorn, R., Schwarz-Wings, D., Wings, O. & Maisch, M. (2009). Late Jurassic Sunosuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia) from the Qigu Formation in the Junggar Basin (Xinjiang, China). – Fossil Record, 12 (1): 59-69
Schwarz-Wings, D., Meyer, C. A., Frey, E., Manz-Steiner, H.-R. & Schumacher, R. (2010). Mechanics of pneumatic neck vertebrae in sauropod dinosaurs reveals a key role of vertebral pneumaticity for achieving enormous body sizes. - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 277: 11-17
Hampe, O., Schwarz-Wings, D., Bickelmann, C. & Klein, N. (2010). Fore limb bones of late Pleistocene dwarf hippopotamuses (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) from Madagascar previously determined as belonging to the crocodylid Voay Brochu, 2007. - Fossil Record, 13 (2): 303-307
Wings, O., Schwarz-Wings, D., Pfretzschner, H.-U. & Martin, T. (2010). Overview of Mesozoic crocodylomorphs from the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China, and description of isolated crocodyliform teeth from the Late Jurassic Liuhuanggou locality. - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 90 (3): 283-294
Schwarz-Wings, D., Klein, N., Neumann, C. & Resch, U. (2011). A new partial skeleton of Alligatorellus (Crocodyliformes) associated with echinoids from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) lithographic limestone of Kelheim, S-Germany. - Fossil Record, 14 (2): 195-205
Wings, O., Schwarz-Wings, D. & Fowler, D. W. (2011). New sauropod material from the Late Jurassic part of the Shishugou Formation (Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, NW China). - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 262 (2): 129-150
Seymour, R. S., Smith, S. L., White, C. R., Henderson, D. M. & Schwarz-Wings, D. (2012). Blood flow to long bones indicates activity metabolism in mammals, reptiles and dinosaurs. - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 279 (1728): 451-456
Knoll, F., Witmer, L. M., Ortego, F., Ridgely, R.C. & Schwarz-Wings, D. (2012). The Braincase of the Basal Sauropod Dinosaur Spinophorosaurus and 3D Reconstructions of the Cranial Endocast and Inner Ear. - PLoS ONE, 7(1):e30060. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030060Carballido, J. L., Marpmann, J. S., Schwarz-Wings, D. & Pabst, B.(2012). New information on a juvenile sauropod specimen from the Morrison Formation and the reassessment of its systematic position. - Palaeontology, 55 (3): 567-582.
Fechner, R. & Schwarz-Wings, D. (2013). The muscles of the infrapubic abdominal wall of a six month-old Crocodylus niloticus (Crocodylia: Reptilia). - Anat Histol Embryol, 42 (3): 175-182.
Manning, P. L., Edwards, N. P., Wogelius, R. A., Bergmann, U., Barden, H. E., Larson, P., Schwarz-Wings, D., Egerton, V. M., Sokaras, D., Morib, R. A. & Sellers, W. I. 2013. Synchrotron-based chemical imaging reveals plumage patterns in a 150 million year old early bird. - Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 28: 1024-1030.
Schwarz-Wings, D. (2014). The feeding apparatus of Dyrosauridae (Crocodyliformes). - Geological Magazine, 151 (1): 144-166
Witzmann, F., Schwarz-Wings, D., Hampe, O., Fritsch, G., Asbach, P. (2014) Evidence of Spondyloarthropathy in the Spine of a Phytosaur (Reptilia: Archosauriformes) from the Late Triassic of Halberstadt, Germany. - PLoS ONE, 9(1): e85511. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085511
Schwarz-Wings, D. & Böhm, N. (2014). A morphometric approach to the specific separation of the humeri and femora of Dicraeosaurus from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru/Tanzania. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 59 (1): 81-98
Schilling, R., Barck, M., Weinhold, J., Wings, O., Schwarz-Wings,D., Jastram, B., Issever, A. S. (2014). Virtual reconstruction and 3D print of a dinosaur vertebra. – Radiology, 270 (3): 864-871
Schwarz-Wings, D., Milàn, J. & Gravesen, P. (2014). A new eusuchian (Crocodylia) tooth from the Early or Middle Paleocene, with a description of the Early–Middle Paleocene boundary succession at Gemmas Allé, Copenhagen, Denmark. - Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 62: 17-26Schwarz, D., Kosch, J., Fritsch, G. & Hildebrandt, T. (2015). Dentition and tooth replacement of Dicraeosaurus hansemanni(Dinosauria, Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania.- Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35(6):e1008134. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2015.1008134
Witzmann, F., Hampe, O., Rothschild, B. M., Joger, U., Kosma, R., Schwarz, D. & Asbach, P. (2016). Subchondral cysts at synovial vertebral joints as analogies of Schmorl's nodes in a sauropod dinosaur from Niger. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36 (2): e1080719. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2016.1080719
Schwarz, D., Raddatz, M. & Wings, O. (2017). Knoetschkesuchus langenbergensis gen. nov. sp. nov., a new atoposaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Langenberg Quarry (Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany), and its relationships to Theriosuchus. - PLoS ONE, 12(2):e0160617. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160617
Hamm, C. A., Mallison, H, Hampe, O., Schwarz, D., Mews, J., Blobel, J., Issever, A. S. & Asbach, P. (2018). Efficiency, workflow and image quality of clinical Computed Tomography scanning compared to photogrammetry on the example of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull from the Maastrichtian of Montana, U.S.A. - Journal of Paleontological Techniques 21:1-13.
Kaye, T. G., Pittman, M., Mayr, G., Schwarz, D. & Xing, X. (2019). Detection of lost calamus challenges identity of isolated Archaeopteryxfeather. - Scientific Reports, 9:1182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37343-7
Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P., Schwarz, D. & Wings, O. (2919). Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 185:784-909.
Schwarz, D., Kundrát, M., Tischlinger, H., Dyke, G. & Carney, R. (2019). Ultraviolet light illuminates the avian nature of the Berlin Archaeopteryx skeleton. - Scientific Reports, 9:6518. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42823-5
Sattler, F. & Schwarz, D. (2019). Tooth replacement in a specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana. - Historical Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1675052
Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P., Schwarz, D. & Wings, O. (2919). Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 (3):784-909. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly068
Schwarz, D., Mannion, P. D., Wings, O. & Meyer, C. A. (2020). Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia ("Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus") greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland. - Swiss Journal of Geology 113:2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s00015-020-00355-5
Hamm, C. A., Hampe, O., Schwarz, D., Witzmann, F., Makovicky, P. J., Brochu, C. A., Reiter, R. &. Asbach, P. (2020). A comprehensive diagnostic approach combining phylogenetic disease bracketing and CT imaging reveals osteomyelitis in a Tyrannosaurus rex. Scientific Reports 10:18897. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75731-0
Díez Díez, V., Demuth, O. E., Schwarz, D. & Mallison, H. (2020). The Tail of the Late Jurassic Sauropod Giraffatitan brancai: Digital Reconstruction of Its Epaxial and Hypaxial Musculature, and Implications for Tail Biomechanics. Frontiers in Earth Science 8:160. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00160
Hübner, T. R., Foth, C., Heinrich, W.-D., Schwarz, D. & Bussert, R. (2021). Research history, taphonomy, and age structure of a mass accumulation of the ornithopod dinosaur Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki from the Upper Jurassic of Tanzania. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2):275-300. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00687.2019
Díez Díez, V., Mallison, H., Asbach, P., Schwarz, D. & Blanco, A. (2021). Comparing surface digitization techniques in palaeontology using visual perceptual metrics and distance computations between 3D meshes. Palaeontology 64 (2):179-202. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12518
Schwarz, D. & Hampe, O. (2022). Afrika Mashariki zama za Dinosaria. in: Heumann, I., Stoecker, H. & Vennen, M. (eds): Vipande vya Dinosaria. Historia ya Msafara wa Kipaleontolojia kwenda Tendaguru, Tanzania 1906 – 2018, pp. 27-45. Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania
Huth, M., Schwarz, D. & Hampe, O. (2022). Der Forschung verpflichtet. Aus dem Leben des Paläontologen und Dinosaurierausgräbers Werner Janensch (1878–1969). 169 S., ISBN: 9783000725524
Schwarz, D., Fritsch, G., Issever, A. S. & Hildebrandt, T. (2023). Description of contents of unopened bamboo corsets and crates from Quarry Ig/WJ of the Tendaguru locality (Late Jurassic, Tanzania, East Africa) as revealed by medical CT data and the potential of this data under paleontological and historical aspects. Palaeontologia Electronica, 26(1):a4. https://doi.org/10.26879/1231
Díez Díaz, V., Akhlaq, S., Kaiser, K., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. 2025. Digitization as a research methodology in colonial natural history collections. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1, 145–146. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00031-2
Depraetere, M., Akhlaq, S., Díaz, V.D., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. 2025. Virtual Access to Fossil & Archival Material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909–1913): More Than 100 years of Data-Meta-paradata Management for Improved Standardisation. In: Ioannides, M., Baker, D., Agapiou, A., Siegkas, P. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0_8
Díez Díaz, V., Akhlaq, S., Campbell, A., Depraetere, M., Mahlow-Tillack, K., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. 2025. Risks and Responsibilities: The German Tendaguru Collection as Cultural Heritage and Its 3D Digitisation. In: Ioannides, M., Issini, G., Oliveira, D. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13577. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93753-8_5
Díez Díaz, V., Van Bijlert, P. A., Sellers, W. I., Wedel, M. J., Schwarz, D. 2025. Centres of rotation and osteological constraints on caudal ranges of motion in the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai. Royal Society Open Sciences 12: 250851. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250851
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- Wissenschaftliche Leitung des DFG LIS Projekts "Research and Responsibility: Virtual access to integrated fossil and archival material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913)"
- DFG Forschungsprojekt "Commitment to the morphological extreme – Revised systematics of the sauropod dinosaur Dicraeosaurus from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) and 3D articulation and biomechanics of the dicraeosaurid neck and shoulder girdle"
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Aufgabengebiete
- Wissenschaftliche Leiterin der Sammlungen Fossile Reptilien und Tetrapodenfährten und Fossile Vögel
- Sammlungsbasierte Forschung an fossilen Archosauriern
- Ansprechpartnerin für sammlungs- und forschungsrelevante Fragen zum Thema Dinosaurier und Archaeopteryx für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
- Leitung Paläontologische Präparationslabore
Forschung
- Fossilfundstelle Tendaguru (Tansania): Paläontologische Forschungs- und Kooperationsprojekte, Digitalisierung
- Wissenschaftliche Leitung des DFG LIS Projekts "Research and Responsibility: Virtual access to integrated fossil and archival material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913)"
- Sauropode Dinosaurier: Pneumatisierung des Axialskeletts, Anatomie und funktionelle Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie insbes. der Sauropoden der Tendaguru Formation
- Archaeopteryx: Pneumatisierung des Axialskelettes, Anatomie, Anwendung moderner Bildgebungsverfahren
- Mesozoische Krokodile: Taxonomie, Phylogenie, Anatomie, funtionelle Morphologie
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Publikationen aktuell
Schwarz, D., Mannion, P. D., Wings, O. & Meyer, C. A. (2020). Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia ("Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus") greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland. - Swiss Journal of Geology 113:2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s00015-020-00355-5
Hamm, C. A., Hampe, O., Schwarz, D., Witzmann, F., Makovicky, P. J., Brochu, C. A., Reiter, R. &. Asbach, P. (2020). A comprehensive diagnostic approach combining phylogenetic disease bracketing and CT imaging reveals osteomyelitis in a Tyrannosaurus rex. Scientific Reports 10:18897. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75731-0
Díez Díez, V., Demuth, O. E., Schwarz, D. & Mallison, H. (2020). The Tail of the Late Jurassic Sauropod Giraffatitan brancai: Digital Reconstruction of Its Epaxial and Hypaxial Musculature, and Implications for Tail Biomechanics. Frontiers in Earth Science 8:160. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00160
Hübner, T. R., Foth, C., Heinrich, W.-D., Schwarz, D. & Bussert, R. (2021). Research history, taphonomy, and age structure of a mass accumulation of the ornithopod dinosaur Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki from the Upper Jurassic of Tanzania. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2):275-300. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00687.2019
Díez Díez, V., Mallison, H., Asbach, P., Schwarz, D. & Blanco, A. (2021). Comparing surface digitization techniques in palaeontology using visual perceptual metrics and distance computations between 3D meshes. Palaeontology 64 (2):179-202. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12518
Schwarz, D., Fritsch, G., Issever, A. S. & Hildebrandt, T. (2023). Description of contents of unopened bamboo corsets and crates from Quarry Ig/WJ of the Tendaguru locality (Late Jurassic, Tanzania, East Africa) as revealed by medical CT data and the potential of this data under paleontological and historical aspects. Palaeontologia Electronica, 26(1):a4. https://doi.org/10.26879/1231
Díez Díaz, V., Akhlaq, S., Kaiser, K., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. 2025. Digitization as a research methodology in colonial natural history collections. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1, 145–146. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00031-2
Depraetere, M., Akhlaq, S., Díaz, V.D., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. 2025. Virtual Access to Fossil & Archival Material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909–1913): More Than 100 years of Data-Meta-paradata Management for Improved Standardisation. In: Ioannides, M., Baker, D., Agapiou, A., Siegkas, P. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0_8
Díez Díaz, V., Akhlaq, S., Campbell, A., Depraetere, M., Mahlow-Tillack, K., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. 2025. Risks and Responsibilities: The German Tendaguru Collection as Cultural Heritage and Its 3D Digitisation. In: Ioannides, M., Issini, G., Oliveira, D. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13577. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93753-8_5
Díez Díaz, V., Van Bijlert, P. A., Sellers, W. I., Wedel, M. J., Schwarz, D. 2025. Centres of rotation and osteological constraints on caudal ranges of motion in the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai. Royal Society Open Sciences 12: 250851. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250851