Dr.Daniela Schwarz (she/her)

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Daniela.Schwarz@mfn.berlin+49 0 30 889 140 - 8754
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Department:
Evolutionary Morphology

I am the scientific head of the sub-collections of fossil reptiles, tetrapod tracks, and fossil birds in the Fossil Vertebrates collection. My research is focused on collection-based research on fossil archosaurs, in particular the sauropod dinosaurs from the fossil locality Tendaguru in Tanzania.

I work in the laboratories:
Paläontologische Präparationslabore
I work in the collections:
Fossil Vertebrates

Project(s)

  • Third-Party Funded Project

    Research and Responsibility

    Virtual Access to Integrated Fossil and Archival Material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909–1913)

Further information

- editorial board (associate editor) of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology - board of European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists

Publications

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(3), 145-146. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00031-2

Díez-Díaz, V., van Bijlert, P., Sellers, W., Wedel, M., Schwarz, D. (2025). Centres of rotation and osteological constraints on caudal ranges of motion in the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai. Royal Society Open Science, 12(8). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250851Open Access

Beeston, S., Schwarz, D., Upchurch, P., Barrett, P., Asbach, P., Mannion, P. (2025). New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages. Journal of Anatomy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70045Open Access

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. (Hrsg.), 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage IV (69-82). Cham: Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93753-8_5Open Access

Gorscak, E., Lamanna, M.C., Schwarz, D., Díaz, V.D., Salem, B.S., Sallam, H.M., Wiechmann, M.F. (2023). A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 42(6), e2199810. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2199810Open Access

Depraetere, M., Akhlaq, S., Díez-Díaz, V., 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. (Hrsg.), 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V (89-102). Cham: Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0_8Open Access

Heumann, I., Vennen, M., Stoecker, H., Newman, P. (2024). Ch. 13: Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Conversation with Daniela Schwarz, Curator of the Tendaguru Dinosaur Collection. In Vennen, M., Stoecker, H., Heumann, I. (Hrsg.), Deconstructing Dinosaurs: The History of the German Tendaguru Expedition and Its Finds, 1906-2023 (219-228). Brill. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004691063_014Open Access

Heyne, E., Kaiser, K., Kilbourne, B., von Oheimb, P.V., von Oheimb, K.C.M., von Rintelen, T., Lentge-Maaß, N., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D., Berger, F., Quaisser, C., Ohl, M., Hoffmann, A., Bilder von: Wolff, E. (2025). 1.2 Sammlung, Forschung und die Zukunft des Sammelns. In Kaiser, K., Heumann, I. (Hrsg.), Umgang mit kolonialen Objekten der Naturkunde: Empfehlungen, Objekte, Reflexionen (1. Auflage, 46-63). Dresden: Sandstein Kultur. URL: https://www.sandstein-kultur.de/shop/umgang-mit-kolonialen-objekten-der-naturkunde