Paläopathologien von obertriassischen Phytosauriern als Fenster zu Paläoökologie
Verhalten und Knochenheilung von frühen Archosauriformes

Der Schwerpunkt meiner Forschung liegt auf der Frage, wie sich die Sinnesorgane und Larvenlebenszyklen bei frühen Amphibien (Temnospondylen) entwickelt haben. Außerdem untersuche ich Skelettpathologien fossiler Wirbeltiere, um Aspekte ihrer Physiologie, ihres Verhaltens und ihrer Lebensweise zu rekonstruieren.
Verhalten und Knochenheilung von frühen Archosauriformes

Rekonstruktion von Aspekten der life history von Temnospondylen aus physiologischer Perspektive

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æ Witzmann, F., Ruta, M., Fröbisch, N., Paß, S., Herrmann, E. (2024). Editorial: 25 years of ‘Fossil Record, an International Journal of Palaeontology’. Fossil Record, 27(3), 291-293. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.143987
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æ Werneburg, R., Witzmann, F. (2024). The last eryopids: Clamorosaurus and Syndyodosuchus from the late Kungurian (Cisuralian, Permian) of Russia revisited. Fossil Record, 27(3), 353-380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.e125460
æ Schaeffer, J., Wolff, E., Witzmann, F., Ferreira, G.S., Schoch, R.R., Mujal, E. (2024). Paleobiological implications of chevron pathology in the sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Upper Triassic of SW Germany. PLoS ONE, 19(7), e0306819. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306819
æ Schoch, R.R., Witzmann, F. (2024). The evolution of larvae in temnospondyls and the stepwise origin of amphibian metamorphosis. Biological Reviews, 99(5), 1613-1637. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13084
Capasso, L., Ebert, M., Witzmann, F. (2024). Dental paleopathologies in †Pycnodontiformes (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 311(3), 299-341. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2024/1193
Capasso, L., Ebert, M., Witzmann, F. (2024). Skeletal and integumental paleopathologies in †Pycnodontomorpha (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 313(1), 39-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2024/1218
æ Prino, A., Witzmann, F., Schwermann, A., Garbay, L., Sander, P., Konietzko-Meier, D. (2024). How not to disappear completely: New Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) of Bonenburg (North Rhine-Westphalia) and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 69. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01147.2024
Ruta, M., Witzmann, F., Klembara, J., Fröbisch, N. (2024). Tempo and mode of skull size evolution in Temnospondyli (Tetrapoda: Amphibia) and lineage diversification in the largest group of early tetrapods. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 115(3-4), 212-234. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S175569102400015X
Witzmann, F., Schoch, R.R. (2024). Osteology and phylogenetic position of Plagiosaurus depressus (Temnospondyli: Plagiosauridae) from the Late Triassic of Germany and the repeated loss of dermal bones in plagiosaurids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202(3), zlae014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae014
æ Schoch, R.R., Witzmann, F., Werneburg, I., Werneburg, R., Mujal, E., Moreno, R. (2025). The morphology and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl genus Cyclotosaurus with a focus on material from Germany. PalZ, 99(3), 319-337. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00729-w
æ Schoch, R.R., Gastou, S., Steyer, J.S., Mujal, E., Moreno, R., Witzmann, F. (2025). Morphology and ontogeny of the plagiosaurid temnospondyl Plagiosternum granulosum from the Middle Triassic of Germany. PalZ. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00748-7
æ Cornille, A., Beguesse, K., Wolff, E., Zinner, C., Asbach, P., Clarac, F., Witzmann, F. (2025). Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs. The Anatomical Record, ar.70079. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70079
æ Capasso, L., Witzmann, F. (2025). Atavisms in †Pycnodontomorpha (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii). Palaeodiversity, 18(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v18.a3