Dr. Christian Foth

Lebenslauf

• Seit 06/2025 Arbeitsgruppenleiter (DFG Heisenberg-Stelle) am Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
• 05/2024-04/2025 Gastwissenschaftler am Zoologischen Institut der University Rostock
• 09/2019 Habilitation im Fach Paläontologie an der Université de Fribourg, Schweiz
• 08/2018-11/2022 Arbeitsgruppenleiter (SNF Ambizione) an der Université de Fribourg, Schweiz
• 10/2017-07/2018 Postdoc am Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (Arbeitsgruppe Prof. Rainer Schoch)
• 03/2015-08/2017 Postdoc an der Université de Fribourg, Schweiz (Arbeitsgruppe Prof. Walter Joyce)
• 11/2013 Promotion im Fach Paläontologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
• 09/2010-02/2015 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Doktorand und Postdoc) an der Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, München (Arbeitsgruppe Prof. Oliver Rauhut)
• 10/2004-12/2009 Studium der Biologie an der Universität Rostock

Forschungsthemen

• Anatomie, Makroevolution und Phylogenese der Raubdinosaurier (Theropoda)
• Ursprung der Vögel
• Evolution von Reptilien

Publikationen (Auswahl)

Profil auf Researchgate

• Spiekman SNF, Foth C, Rossi V, Gascó Martín C, Slater TS, Bath Enright OG, Dollman KN, Serafini G, Seegis D, Grauvogel-Stamm L, McNamara ME, Sues H-D, Schoch RR. 2025. Triassic reptile reveals unexpected diversity in amniote skin appendages. Nature.
• Foth C, van de Kamp T, Tischlinger H, Kantelis T, Carney RM, Zuber M, Hamann E, Wallaard JJW, Lenz N, Rauhut OWM, Frey E. 2025. A new Archaeopteryx from the lower Tithonian Mörnsheim Formation at Mühlheim (Late Jurassic). Fossil Record 28: 17-43.
• Plateau O, Green T, Gignac P, Foth C. 2024. Comparative digital reconstruction of Pica pica and Struthio camelus and their cranial suture ontogenies. The Anatomical Record 307: 5-48.
• Evers SW, Joyce WG, Choiniere J, Ferreira GS, Foth C, Hermanson G, Honyu Y, Johnson C, Werneburg I, Benson RBJ. 2022. Independent origins of large labyrinth size in turtles. Nature Communications 13: 5807.
• Foth C, Wang S, Spindler F, Lin Y, Rui Y. 2021. A juvenile specimen of Archaeorhynchus shedding new light on the ontogeny of basal euornithines. Frontiers in Earth Science 9: 149.
• Plateau O, Foth C. 2020. Birds have peramorphic skulls, too: oppositional heterochronies in avian skull evolution. Communications Biology 3: 1-12.
• Rauhut OWM, Tischlinger H, Foth C. 2019. A non-archaeopterygid bird (Dinosauria; Theropoda; Avialae) from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany. eLife 8: e43789.
• Rauhut OWM, Foth C, Tischlinger H. 2018. The oldest Archaeopteryx (Theropoda: Avialae): a new specimen from the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian boundary of Schamhaupten, Bavaria. PeerJ 6: e4191.
• Foth C, Rauhut OWM. 2017. Re-evaluation of the Haarlem Archaeopteryx and the radiation of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 236.
• Foth C, Joyce WG. 2016. Slow and steady: the evolution of cranial disparity in fossil and recent turtles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20161881.
• Foth C, Ezcurra MD, Sookias RB, Brusatte SL, Butler, RJ. 2016. Unappreciated diversification of stem archosaurs during the Middle Triassic predated the dominance of dinosaurs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 188.
• Foth C, Hedrick BP, Ezcurra MD. 2016. Cranial ontogenetic variation in early saurischians and the role of heterochrony in the diversification of predatory dinosaurs. PeerJ 4: e1589.
• Foth C, Evers SW, Pabst B, Mateus O, Flisch A, Patthey M, Rauhut OWM. 2015. New insights into the lifestyle of Allosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) based on another specimen with multiple pathologies. PeerJ 3: e940.
• Foth C, Tischlinger H, Rauhut OWM. 2014. New specimen of Archaeopteryx provides insights into the evolution of pennaceous feathers. Nature 511: 79-82.
• Rauhut OWM, Foth C, Tischlinger H, Norell MA. 2012. Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 109: 11746-11751.
• Foth C. 2012. On the identification of feather structures in stem-line representatives of birds: evidence from fossils and actuopalaeontology. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86: 91-102.