Dr. Andrej Ernst

My main research interest is on the Palaeostomata, a group of bryozoans almost completely restricted to the Palaeozoic Era, and focuses on their taxonomy and evolution, and the practical implications of this knowledge in fields of stratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology. These animals were exceptionally important in marine biotopes of the Palaeozoic, often being involved in reef construction and sediment formation. The modularity of bryozoans facilitates the development of numerous adaptations for enhanced feeding, competition for substrate space, and defense against predators. Due to their calcareous skeletons (mainly of stable low-Mg calcite), these bryozoans have a rich fossil record. My research aims to reveal global macroevolutionary patterns in bryozoans and to investigate links between bryozoan macroevolution and biotic and abiotic ecological factors. Fossil bryozoans are also useful as climate proxies and environmental indicators. Furthermore, I am interested in carbonate sedimentology (microfacies analysis) and the interactions between various organisms (symbiosis).

Research grants

• DFG grant ER 278/2-1. u. 2-2 "Radiation of the Ordovician bryozoans", University of Kiel (2000-2002).
• DAAD guest researcher at the Paleontologisk Museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway (2002-2003).
• DFG project ER 278/4-1 u.2 "Evolution, Paläoökologie und Paläobiogeographie der Devonbryozoen von Europa und angrenzenden Gebieten", University of Kiel (2006-2009).
• Gledden Senior Researcher Visitor Fellowship, University of Western Australia, Perth (2011).
• DFG project "Diversity dynamics and evolutionary patterns of Carboniferous Bryozoa", ER 278/6-1, University of Kiel (2011-2013).
• DFG project "Early Permian bryozoan faunas of the East Gondwana rift system: viewed from a global perspective", ER 278/7-1, 7-2, University of Hamburg (2013-2015, 2016-2017).
• DFG project "From high latitudes into the tropics: The role of palaeogeography for the biodiversification of Ordovician bryozoans of Baltoscandia", ER 278/10-1, University of Hamburg (2018-2020).
• DFG project "Global diversity patterns and macroevolution of Palaeostomata (Bryozoa)", ER 278/12-1, University of Hamburg (2023-2025).

1988-1993      Study at the Tomsk State University (Russia)

1995-1999      PhD thesis “Systematics and phylogeny of the bryozoans of the Permian in Europe: Importance for biogeography and ecology in German Zechstein Basin and in the NW-Tethys”, University of Kiel

2009-2011      Lecturer at the Institute for Geosciences, University of Kiel

2013                Habilitation “Diversity dynamics and evolutionary patterns of the Palaeozoic stenolaemate Bryozoa“, University of Kiel

 

Research grants

 

• DFG grant ER 278/2-1. u. 2-2 "Radiation of the Ordovician bryozoans",
  University of Kiel (2000-2002).
• DAAD guest researcher at the Paleontologisk Museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway (2002-2003).
• DFG project ER 278/4-1 u.2 "Evolution, Paläoökologie und Paläobiogeographie der Devonbryozoen von Europa und angrenzenden Gebieten", University of Kiel (2006-2009).
• Gledden Senior Researcher Visitor Fellowship, University of Western Australia, Perth (2011).
• DFG project "Diversity dynamics and evolutionary patterns
  of Carboniferous Bryozoa", ER 278/6-1, University of Kiel (2011-2013).
• DFG project "Early Permian bryozoan faunas of the East Gondwana rift system: viewed from a global perspective", ER 278/7-1, 7-2, University of Hamburg (2013-2015, 2016-2017).
• DFG project "From high latitudes into the tropics: The role of palaeogeography for the biodiversification of Ordovician bryozoans of Baltoscandia", ER 278/10-1, University of Hamburg (2018-2020).
• DFG project "Global diversity patterns and macroevolution of Palaeostomata (Bryozoa)", ER 278/12-1, University of Hamburg (2023-2025).

171  Ernst, A. & Buttler, C. (2025): Bryozoan fauna from the Ferques Formation (Upper Devonian, Frasnian) of France.  –  Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 105(1): 265–281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00614-5

170.  Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M.A., & Toom, U. (2025b): Symbiosis between bryozoans with erect cribrate colonies and rugose corals from the lower Katian (Upper Ordovician) of Estonia. Carnets Geol. 25 (6): 147–154. https://doi.org/10.2110/carnets.2025.2506

169.  Vinn, O., Wilson, M.A., Madison, A., Ernst, A. & Toom, U. (2025): Dwarf cornulitid tubeworms from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia. Historical biology, 37 (3): 590–595. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2318796

168.  Zatoń, M., Nawrot, R., Król, J. J., Zapalski, M. K., Majchrzyk, A., Jakubowicz, M., Ernst, A., Słowiński, J., & Berkowski, B. (2024): Skeletobiosis on favositid corals: a case study from the Middle Devonian of the Mader Basin, Morocco. – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 74(4): e40. https://doi.org/10.24425/agp.2024.152655

167.  Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Alkahtane, A. A., El Hedeny, M., & Al Farraj, S. (2024a): New cecidospecies of Anoigmaichnus in the cystoporate bryozoan Fistulipora przhidolensis from the upper Pridoli (Silurian) of Saaremaa Island, Estonia. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 312 (1): 101–107. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2024/1202

166. Ernst, A., Serobyan, V., & Danelian, T. (2024b): Biostratigraphic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographic implications of bryozoan fauna from the Upper Devonian sequences of Armenia. – Geobios, 85: 10–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.02.001

165. Ernst, A., Vachard, D. & Rodríguez, S. (2024a): Palaeoecology of calcified microfossils from the Lower Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) of Sierra Morena (SW Spain). Facies, 70: 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-024-00680-3

164. Wyse Jackon, P.N., Ernst, A., Shaikh-Horajska, M., & Murray, J. (2023): Volgia (Bryozoa, Cystoporata): a rare occurrence from the Mississippian of Ireland. – In: Key, M.M. Jr., Porter, J.S. & Wyse Jackson, P.N. (eds.): Bryozoan Studies 2022. CRC Press, London, pp. 183–190. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003454915-19

163. Ernst, A. (2022c): Semicosciniid bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of Rommersheim (Eifel, Germany). – PalZ, 97:741–749. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-021-00602-6

162. Kröger, B., Ernst, A., Penny, A., Nakrem, H.A., & Toom, U. (2023): Scale dependent diversity of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Late Ordovician Vasalemma Formation, Estonia. – Lethaia, 56(2): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.18261/let.56.2.7

161. Ernst, A. & Rodríguez, S. (2023): Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeographic relationships of Lower Devonian bryozoans from the Guadámez and Peñón Cortado sections of Sierra Morena (SW Spain). – Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 38(2):173–220. https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.26580

160. Vinn, O., Wilson, M.A., Ernst, A. & Toom, U. (2023c): The Ordovician bioclaustration revolution. – Geobios, 81: 145–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2022.10.007

159. Ernst, A. &Tolokonnikova, Z. (2023): Unusual cystoporate? bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of Siljan District, Dalarna, central Sweden. – GFF, 144(3–4): 210–219. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2023.2223579

158. Lucas S.G., Krainer, K., Allen, B.D., Vachard, D., & Ernst, A. (2023): The Pennsylvanian System in the Sierra Ladrones, Socorro County, New Mexico. – In: Lucas, S. G., Lichtig, A. J., Morgan, G. S., & Hunt, A.P. (eds.): Fossil Record 9: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin, 94: 337–398.

157. Ernst, A. (2023b): New trepostome bryozoan genus from the Estonian Kukersite. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 307 (3): 24–259. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2023/1124

156. Ernst, A. (2023a): Fossilized soft tissues in Palaeozoic bryozoans. – Papers in Palaeontology, 9(1): e1483. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1483

155. Vinn, O., Wilson, M.A., & Ernst, A. (2023c): Macroscopic symbiotic endobionts in Phanerozoic bryozoans. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 615: 111453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111453

154. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M.A., Tinn, O., Isakar, M., & Toom, U. (2023a): Symbiosis in brachiopods and brachiopod-attached trepostome bryozoans from the Katian of Estonia. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 307 (1): 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2023/1111

153. Ernst, A., Krainer, K., & Lucas S.G. (2022): Bryozoan fauna from the Pennsylvanian of the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, USA. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 306 (2): 97–160. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2022/1100

152. Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Holmer, L. E., Ernst, A., Tinn, O., & Toom, U. (2022): Diverse endobiotic symbiont fauna from the late Katian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia. – Palaeontologia Electronica, 25(3): a31. https://doi.org/10.26879/1232

151. Ernst, A. (2022): Fenestrate bryozoan fauna from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany). – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 102: 521–539. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-022-00544-0

150. Zapalski, M.K., Vinn, O., Toom, U., Ernst, A. &Wilson, M. (2022): Bryozoan-cnidarian mutualism triggered a new strategy for greater resource exploitation as early as the Late Silurian. – Scientific Reports, 12: 15556. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19955-2

149. Zatón, M., Nawrot, R., Jakubowicz, M., Ernst, A., Rakociński, M., Berkowski, B. & Belka, Z. (2022): Middle Devonian brachiopod-hosted sclerobiont assemblage from the northern shelf of Gondwana (Mader Basin, Morocco): Diversity, colonization patterns and relation to coeval palaeocommunities. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 594: 110947.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110947

148. Ernst, A. & Carrera, M. (2022): A cool-water bryozoan association from the La Pola Formation (Sandbian, Ordovician) of Argentine Precordillera. – Geodiversitas, 44 (20): 563-601. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a20

147. Ernst, A. & Nakrem, H.A. (2022): Two trepostome bryozoans from the Assistance Formation (Permian, Roadian) near Lake Hazen, Ellesmere Island, Canada. – GFF, 144(1): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2021.1989716

146. Ernst, A. (2022): Upper Ordovician bryozoans of Morocco. – In: Hunter, A.W., Álvaro, J.J., Lefebvre, B., Van Roy, P., & Zamora, S. (eds.): The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 485: 201–208. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP485-2018-71

145. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M. A. & Toom, U. (2022): Symbiosis in trepostome bryozoans from the Sandbian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia. – Historical Biology, 34 (6): 1029–1038. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.1959579

144. Ernst, A., Claussen, A.L., Seuss, B., & Wyse Jackson, P.N. (2022): Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Graham Formation, Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) at Lost Creek Lake, Texas, USA. – Palaeontologia Electronica, 25(2): a15. https://doi.org/10.26879/1174

143. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M.A. & Toom, U. (2022): Borings and bioclaustrations in bryozoans from the Kunda Regional Stage (Darriwilian) of northern Estonia and NW Russia. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 303(2): 219–225. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2022/1044

142. Ernst, A. (2022): Bryozoan fauna from the Kunda Stage (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician) of Estonia and NW Russia. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 97(1): 33–68. doi/10.1002/spp2.1483

141. Claussen, A.L., Munnecke, A. & Ernst, A. (2022): Bryozoan-rich stromatolites (bryostromatolites) from the Silurian of Gotland and their relation to climate-related perturbations of the global carbon cycle. – Sedimentology, 69: 162–198. doi: 10.1111/sed.12863

140. Ernst, A. & Wilson, M. (2021): Bryozoan fossils found at last in deposits from the Cambrian period. – Nature, 599: 203–204. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02874-z

139. Tolokonnikova, Z. & Ernst, A. (2021): Richness of Famennian-Tournaisian (Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous) bryozoans in shallow areas of Palaeotethys and Palaeoasian oceans. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 101: 885–906. doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00478-5

138. El Hedeni, M., Ernst, A., El Sabbagh, A., Rashwan, M., Al Farraj, S., Al Basher, G., & Mansour, H. (2021): Paleoecology and taphonomy of the Middle Miocene domical cheilostome bryozoan, Siwa Oasis, the northern Western Desert of Egypt. – Lethaia, 54: 504-520. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12419

137. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M. A. & Toom, U. (2021): Intergrowth of bryozoans with other invertebrates in the Late Pridoli of Saaremaa, Estonia. – Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 91: 101-111. doi: https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2021.04

136. Eichholt, S., Becker, R.T., Aboussalam, Z.S., El Hassani, A., Cozar, P., May, A., Jansen, U., Ernst, A., & El Kamel, F. (2021): Devonian of the Mechra Ben Abbou region (Rehamna) – new data on the reef succession, microfacies, stratigraphy, and palaeogeography. – Frontiers in Science and Engineering, 10(2): 131-174.

135. Becker, R.T., Aboussalam, Z.S., El Hassani, A., Cozar, P., Herbig, H-G., & Ernst, A. (2021): The Devonian and Viséan transgression in the Eastern Jebilet (Moroccan Meseta) – review and new data. – Frontiers in Science and Engineering, 10(2): 153-201.

134. Ernst, A., Krainer, K., & Lucas, S.G. (2021): Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Gray Mesa Formation (Pennsylvanian) of the Fra Cristobal Mountains, New Mexico, USA. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 300(2): 215–233. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2021/0986

133. Ernst, A., Yaghub, N., Carrera, M.G., Mosaddegh, H., Moussavi–Harami, R. & Mahboubi, A. (2021с): Bryozoan fauna from the Mobarak Formation (Mississippian), Northern Iran. – PalZ, 95: 105–116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542–019–00504–8

132. Ernst, A., Li, Qi–j., Zhang, M., & Munnecke, A. (2021): Bryozoans from the lower Silurian (Telychian) Hanchiatien Formation from southern Chongqing, South China. – Journal of Paleontology, 95(2): 252–267. https://doi.org/2010.1017/jpa.2020.86

131. Ernst, A., Krainer, K. Schönlaub, H.–P. & Vachard, D. (2021): Bryozoans, foraminifers, algae, and sedimentological characteristics of an exotic limestone block of the late Viséan Kirchbach Formation, Carnic Alps, Austria. – Bulletin of Geosciences 96(2), 181–194. DOI 10.3140/bull.geosci.1820 http://www.geology.cz/bulletin/contents/art1820#

130. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M. & Toom, U. (2021): Symbiosis of cornulitids with the cystoporate bryozoan Fistulipora in the Pridoli of Saaremaa, Estonia. – Lethaia, 54: 90–95. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12385

128. Ernst, A. (2020): 2. Fossil record and evolution of Bryozoa. In: Schwaha, T. (ed.): Phylum Bryozoa: 11–55 (de Gruyter, Berlin). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586312–002

127. Ernst, A. (2020): 8. Cyclostomata (Stenolaemata). In: Schwaha, T. (ed.): Phylum Bryozoa: 225–263 (de Gruyter, Berlin). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586312–008

126. Ernst, A. Bahrami, A., & Parast, A. (2020): Early Famennian bryozoan fauna from the Baqer–abad section, northeast Isfahan, central Iran. – Palaeobiodiveristy and Palaeoenvironments, 100: 705–718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00417-4

125. Ernst, A. & Gorgij, M. N. (2020): Carboniferous bryozoans from the Kalmard area, central Iran. – PalZ, 94: 533–543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-019-00502-w

124. Ernst, A. (2020): Anastomopora (Fenestrata, Bryozoa) from the Middle Devonian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 297(1): 11–26. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2020/0911

123. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M. & Toom, U. (2020): Symbiosis of rugose corals with the cystoporate bryozoan Fistulipora przhidolensis in the Pridoli (latest Silurian) of Saaremaa, Estonia. – Palaios, 35: 237–244. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2020.019

122. Ernst, A., Kora, M., El–Desouky, H., Herbig, H.–G., & Wyse Jackson, P. (2020): Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Carboniferous of Egypt. – Journal of African Earth Sciences, 165: 103811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103811

121. Hageman, S. & Ernst, A. (2019): The last phylum: Occupation of Bryozoa morpho–ecospace (colony growth habits) during the early phase of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 534: 109270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109270

120. Ernst, A., Brett, C.E., & Wilson, M.A. (2019): Bryozoan fauna from the Reynales Formation (Lower Silurian, Aeronian) of New York, USA. – Journal of Paleontology, 93(4): 628–657. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.101

119. Swami, N., Ernst, A., Tripathi, S., Bharti, S., & Rana, Y. (2019). A new cryptostome bryozoan Ptilotrypa from the Upper Ordovician Yong Limestone Formation: Tethyan sequence of Kumaun Higher Himalaya, India. – Journal of Paleontology, 93(3): 585–591. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.94

118. Carrera, M., Ernst, A. & Rustan, J. (2019): Devonian bryozoans from Argentina: new cosmopolitan components of Southern Gondwanan basins. – Journal of Paleontology, 93(2): 232–243. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.81

117. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Wilson, M. & Toom, U. (2019): Symbiosis of conulariids with trepostome bryozoans in the Late Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 518: 89–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.018

116. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., Toom, U. & Isakar, M. (2018): Cryptic encrusting fauna inside invertebrate fossils from the Ordovician of Estonia. – Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 88: 285–290. doi: https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2018.021

115. Li, Qi–j., Ernst, A., Munnecke, A., Yu, S. & Li, Y. (2018): Early Silurian (Telychian) bryozoan reefs in the epeiric sea of South China: Are heterotroph metazoan buildups promoted by internal waves? – Sedimentary Geology, 376: 50–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.07.008

114. Vinn, O., Ernst, A. & Toom, U. (2018): Symbiosis of cornulititds and bryozoans in the Late Ordovician of Estonia. (Baltica). – Palaois, 33 (7): 290–295. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2018.018

113. Vinn, O., Ernst, A. & Toom, U. (2018): Bioclaustrations in Upper Ordovician bryozoans from northern Estonia. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 289(1): 113–121. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2018/0752

112. Ernst, A., Krainer, K. & Lucas, S. (2018): Bryozoan fauna of the Lake Valley Formation (Mississippian), New Mexico. – Journal of Paleontology, 92(4): 568–576. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.146

111. Ernst, A. (2018): Diversity dynamics of Ordovician Bryozoa. – Lethaia, 51: 198–206. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12235

110. Vinn, O., Toom, U. & Ernst, A. (2018): Intergrowth of Orbignyella germana Bassler, 1911 (Bryozoa) and Lambelasma carinatum Weyer, 1993 (Rugosa) in the pelmatozoan–bryozoan–receptaculitid reefs from the Late Ordovician of Estonia. – Palaeontologia Electronica, 21.1.4A. https://doi.org/10.26879/818

109. Krainer, K., Vachard, D., Lucas, S.G. & Ernst, A. (2017): Microfacies and sedimentary petrography of Pennsylvanian limestones and sandstones of the Cerros de Amado area, east of Socorro (New Mexico, USA). – In: Lucas, S.G., DiMichele, W.A. and Krainer, K. (eds.): Carboniferous–Permian transition in Socorro County, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 77: 159–198.

108. Tolokonnikova, Z. & Ernst, A. (2017): Palaeoecology of Famennian–Tournaisian (Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous) bryozoans from central and southern regions of Russia. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 97: 731–745. DOI 10.1007/s12549-017-0293-0

107. Ernst, A., Bogolepova, O. K., Gubanov, A. P. (2017): Two bryozoan assemblages from the Ordovician of the Russian Arctic. – GFF, 139 (3): 205–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2017.1319877

106. Kröger, B., Desrochers, A. & Ernst, A. (2017): The reengineering of reef habitats during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. – Palaois, 32: 584–599. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2017.017

105. Ernst, A., Königshof, P., Bahrami, A., Yazdi, M., & Boncheva, I. (2017): A Late Devonian (Frasnian) bryozoan fauna from the Central Iran. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 97: 541–552. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-016-0269-5

104. Wyse Jackson, P., Ernst, A. & Suárez Andrés, J. (2017): Articulation in the Family Rhabdomesidae (Cryptostomata: Bryozoa) from the Mississippian of Ireland. – Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 35: 35–44. https://doi.org/10.3318/IJES.2017.35.35

103. Ernst, A. & Vachard, D. (2017b): Middle Pennsylvanian bryozoans of Cerros de Tule, Sonora, Mexico. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 285 (1): 11–38. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2017/0660

102. Ernst, A. & Vachard, D. (2017a): Cystoporate bryozoan Glyptopora michelinia (Prout, 1860) in the Viséan–Serpukhovian boundary interval of the Montagne Noire (southern France). – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 91: 207–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0336-x

101. Ernst, A., Tolokonnikova, Z., Poty, E. & Mottequin, B. (2017): Bryozoan fauna from the Mississippian (Tournaisian and Viséan) of Belgium. – Geobios, 50 (2): 105–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2017.02.002

100. Haig, D.W., Mory, A. J., McCartain, E., Backhouse, J., Håkansson, E., Ernst, A., Nicoll, R. S., Shi, G. R., Bevan, J. C., Davydov, V. I., Hunter, A., Keep, M., Martin, S. K., Peyrot, D., Kossavaya, O. & Dos Santos, Z. (2017): Late Artinskian–Early Kungurian (Early Permian) warming and maximum marine flooding in the East Gondwana interior rift, Timor and Western Australia, and comparisons across East Gondwana. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 468: 88–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.051

99. Ernst, A., Seuss, B., Taylor, P.D. & Nützel, A. (2016): Bryozoan fauna of the Boggy Formation (Deese Group, Pennsylvanian) of the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry, Oklahoma, USA. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 96: 517–540. . DOI 10.1007/s12549–016–0231–6

98. Vinn, O., Ernst, A., & Toom, T. (2016): Earliest symbiotic rugosans in cystoporate bryozoan Ceramopora intercellata Basller, 1911 from Late Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 461: 140–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.016

97. Ernst, A. (2016b): Bryozoan fauna from the Permian (Artinskian–Kungurian) Zhongba Formation of southwestern Tibet. – Palaeontologia Electronica, 19.2.15A: 1–59. https://doi.org/10.26879/585

96. Jiménez–Sanchez, A., Ernst, A., Venin, E. & Villas, E. (2016): New bryozoans from the Upper Ordovician of Morocco and their place in the temperate–to–cool water Mediterranean Province. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 91(1): 23–50. doi 10.3140/bull.geosci.1316

95. Ernst, A. (2016a): Fenestrapora (Fenestrata, Bryozoa) from the Middle Devonian of Germany. – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 90: 19–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542–016–0284–x

94. Ernst, A., Schäfer, P. & Grant–Mackie, A. J. (2015g): New Caledonian Triassic Bryozoa. – Journal of Paleontology, 89 (5): 730–747. https://doi.org.org/10.1017/jpa.2015.50

93. Ernst, A., Jiménez–Sánchez, A., & Baidder, L. (2015f): Bryozoan fauna of the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Alnif, Morocco. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 95: 537–553. https://doi.org.org/10.1007/s12549-015-0208-x

92. Ernst, A., Tolokonnikova, Z. & Wyse Jackson, P. N. (2015e): Stratigraphic relevance and typification of the Mississippian fenestrate bryozoan Narynella narynica (Nikiforova, 1933). – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 89: 645–651. https://doi.org.org/10.1007/s12542-014-0249-x

91. Tolokonnikova, Z., Ernst, A. & Poty, E. (2015): Tournaisian (lower Mississippian) bryozoans from Belgium. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 278 (1): 23–45. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2015/0515

90. Ernst, A., Wyse Jackson, P. N., & Aretz, M. (2015d): Bryozoan fauna from the Mississippian (Viséan) of Roque Redonde (Montagne Noire, southern France). – Geodiversitas, 37 (2): 151–213. http://doi.org/10.5252/g2015n2a2

89. Ernst, A., Munnecke, A. & Oswald, I. (2015c): Exceptional bryozoan assemblage of a microbial–dominated reef from the Early Wenlock of Gotland, Sweden. – GFF, 137 (2): 102–125. https://doi.org.org/10.1080/11035897.2014.997543

88. Suárez Andrés, J. L. & Ernst, A. (2015): Lower–Middle Devonian Fenestellidae (Bryozoa) of NW Spain: Implications for fenestrate palaeobiogeography. – Facies, 415 (25 pp.) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-014-0415-3

87. Ernst, A., Tolokonnikova, Z. & Herbig, H.–G. (2015b): Uppermost Famennian bryozoans from Ratingen (Velbert Anticline, Rhenish Massif/Germany) – Taxonomy, facies dependencies and palaeobiogeographic implications. – Geologica Belgica, 18 (1): 37–47.

86. Ernst, A., Tolokonnikova, Z. & Denayer J. (2015a): Upper Frasnian (Upper Devonian) bryozoans in proximal facies of southern Belgium. – Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 121(1): 3–20. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/6517

85. Ernst, A. & Nakrem, H.A. (2015): Bryozoans from the Lower Silurian (Wenlockian) Steinsfjorden Formation of Ringerike, southern Norway. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 90 (1): 65–87. doi 10.3140/bull.geosci.1521

84. Tolokonnikova, Z., Ernst, A. & Mottequin, B. (2015): Middle and uppermost Famennian (Upper Devonian) bryozoans from southern Belgium. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 90 (1): 33–49. doi 10.3140/bull.geosci.1527

83. Tolokonnikova, Z., Ernst, A. & Wyse Jackson, P. N. (2014): Palaeobiogeography of the Tournaisian–Viséan bryozoans (lower–middle Mississippian, Carboniferous) from Eurasia. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 414: 200–211. https://doi.org.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.08.023

82. Ernst, A., Bohatý, J. &Taylor, P.D. (2014): Botryllopora (Cystoporata, Bryozoa) from the Middle Devonian of Canada and Germany. – In: Rosso, A., Wyse Jackson, P. N. & Porter, J. (eds.): Bryozoan Studies 2013: proceedings of the 16th International Bryozoology Association conference, Catania, Sicily, Italy. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 94 (2014): 101–109.

81. Tolokonnikova, Z., Ernst, A. & Herbig, H.–G. (2014): Famennian (Upper Devonian) bryozoans from borehole Velbert 4, Rhenish Slate Massif (Germany). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 273 (1): 25–44. https://doi.org.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0414

80. Haig, D. W., McCartain, E., Mory, A. J., Borges, G., Davydov, V., Dixon, M., Ernst, A., Groflin, S., Håkansson, E., Keep, M., Dos Santos, Z., Shi, G., Soares, J. (2014): Postglacial Early Permian (Sakmarian–Artinskian) shallow–marine carbonate deposition along a 2000 km transect from Timor–Leste to northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 409: 180–204. https://doi.org.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.009

79. Ernst, A., Taylor, P.D. & Bohatý, J. (2014): A new Middle Devonian cystoporate bryozoan from Germany containing a symbiont bioclaustration. – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 59 (1): 173–183. http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2010.0110

78. Ernst, A., Kraft, P. & Zágoršek, K. (2014): Trepostome bryozoans from the Zahořany Formation (Upper Ordovician) of Loděnice, Prague Basin, Czech Republic. – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 88: 11–26. DOI 10.1007/s12542-013-0183-3

77. Ernst, A., Bogolepova, O. K., Hubmann, B.& Gubanov, A. P. (2014): Dianulites (Trepostomata, Bryozoa) from the Early Ordovician of Severnaya Zemlya, Arctic Russia. – Geological Magazine, 151 (2): 328–338. https://doi.org.org/10.1017/S0016756813000150

76. Ernst, A. & Rodríguez, S. (2013): Stenolaemate bryozoan fauna from the Mississippian of Guadiato Area, southwestern Spain. – Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 28 (2): 173–192.

75. Buttler, C. J., Wyse Jackson, P. N., Ernst, A. & McKinney, F. K. (2013): A review of the early Palaeozoic biogeography of bryozoans. – In: Harper, D. & Servais, T. (eds.) “Early Palaeozoic Palaeobiogeography and Palaeogeography”. Geological Society of London, Memoirs, 38: 145–155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/M38.12

74. Ernst, A. & Gorgij, M. N. (2013): Lower Permian bryozoan faunas from Kalmard area, central Iran. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlngen, 268 (3): 275–324. https://doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0330

73. Ernst, A. (2013): Diversity dynamics and evolutionary patterns of Devonian Bryozoa. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 93:45–63. DOI 10.1007/s12549-012-0086-4

72. Ernst, A., Fernández, L. P., Fernández–Martínez, E. & Vera, C. (2012): Description of a bryozoan fauna from mud mounds of the Lebanza Formation (Lower Devonian) in the Arauz area (Pisuerga–Carrión Province, Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain). – Geodiversitas, 34 (4): 693–738. http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2012n4a1

71. Ernst, A., Tolokonnikova, Z. & Yarahmadzahi, H. (2012): Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Bryozoa from the Shishtu 1 Formation of Niaz area (northeast Iran). – Revue de Paléobiologie, 31 (1): 1–14.

70. Ernst, A., May, A. & Marks, S. (2012): Bryozoans, corals and microfacies of lower Eifelian (Middle Devonian) limestones at Kierspe, Germany. – Facies, 58: 727–758. DOI 10.1007/s10347-011-0289-6

69. Ernst, A. & Carrera, M. (2012): Upper Ordovician (Sandbian) bryozoan fauna from Argentinean Precordillera. – Journal of Paleontology, 86 (5), p. 721–752. doi:10.1666/12–024.1

68. Ernst, A. (2012): Acanthoclema (Rhabdomesina, Cryptostomata) from the Devonian of Europe. – In: Ernst, A., Schäfer, P., & Scholz, J. (eds.): Bryozoan Studies 2010. Proceedings of the 15th IBA Conference, 2010 Kiel, Germany, pp. 45–58. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, 143, 466 pp. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_4

67. Ernst, A. (2012): Fenestrate bryozoan fauna from the Lower – Middle Devonian of NW Spain. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlngen, 264 (3): 205–247. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0237

66. Ernst, A., Taylor, P., Bohatý, J. &Wyse Jackson, P. N. (2012): Homeomorphy in Lunostoma, a new Middle Devonian cryptostome bryozoan. – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 86:135–145. DOI 10.1007/s12542-011-0127-8

65. Ernst, A. (2012): Inconobotopora (Cystoporata, Bryozoa) from the Kullsberg Limestone (early Katian, Late Ordovician) of Siljan District, Dalarna, central Sweden. – GFF, 134 (1): 19–25. doi: 10.1080/11035897.2011.653400

64. Ernst, A. & Nakrem, H. A. (2012): Late Ordovician (Sandbian) bryozoans and their depositional environment, Furuberget Formation, Mjøsa District, Oslo Region, Norway. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (1): 21–44. doi 10.3140/bull.geosci.1316

63. Ernst, A. & Buttler, C. (2012): Cystoporate bryozoans from the Lower – Middle Devonian of NW Spain. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 263 (3): 261–285. https://doi.org/10.1127/0077–7749/2012/0226

62. Ernst, A. & May, A. (2012): Bryozoan fauna from the Lower Devonian (Middle Lochkovian) of Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain. – Journal of Paleontology, 86 (1): 60–80. http://www.psjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1666/10-155.1

61. Ernst, A., Parvizi, T. & Rashidi, K. (2011): Some Bryozoa from the Upper Permian Dalan Formation of Dena Mountain in SW Iran. – Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies (19), Freiberger Forschungshefte, C 539: 71–81

60. Ernst, A. & Nakrem, H. A. (2011): Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Mjøsa Formation (Late Ordovician, Katian) of Helgøya (Bergevika), southern Norway. – Norwegian Journal of Geology, 91: 163–180.

59. Ernst, A., Königshof, P. Taylor, P. D. & Bohatý, J. (2011): Microhabitat complexity – an example from Middle Devonian bryozoan–rich sediments. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 91: 257–284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-011-0060-6

58. Tolokonnikova, Z., Ernst, A. & Yarahmadzahi, H. (2011): Frasnian bryozoans (Late Devonian) from the Khoshyeilagh Section, Alborz Mountains (Northern Iran). – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 85: 393–405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-011-0107-z

57. Ernst, A. (2011): Cryptostome (ptilodictyine and rhabdomesine) Bryozoa from the Lower Devonian of NW Spain. – Palaeontographica A, 293 (4–6): 147–183.

56. Ernst, A., Dorsch, T. & Keller, M. (2011): A bryozoan fauna from the Santa Lucia Formation (Lower – Middle Devonian) of Abelgas, Cantabrian Mountains, NW–Spain. – FACIES, 57: 301–329. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-010-0238-9

55. Ernst, A., Manda, S. & Zágoršek, K. (2011): Cryptostome bryozoan Stictoporella frondosa (Počta, 1894) from the Silurian of Bohemia. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 260 (1): 79–85. https://doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0130

54. Ernst, A. & Rodríguez, S. (2010): Bryozoan fauna from the oolitic limestone near Pajarejos, SW Spain. – Revista española de paleontología, 25 (2): 83–88.

53. Ernst, A., Yarahmadzahi, H. & Gorgij, M. N. (2010): Sakmarian Bryozoa from the Dalgan area (Sarab section), southeastern Iran. – Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies (18), Freiberger Forschungshefte, C 536: 75–89.

52. Wyse Jackson, P. N., McKinney, F. K. & Ernst, A. (2010): Retepora undata M‘Coy, 1844, type species of Phylloporella Frederiks, 1916, a junior synonym of Chainodictyon Foerste, 1887: A phylloporinid bryozoan from the Mississippian of Ireland redescribed. – Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 28: 53–60. https://doi.org.org/10.3318/IJES.2010.28.53

51. Tolokonnikova, Z. & Ernst, A. (2010): Palaeobiogeography of the Famennian (Late Devonian) bryozoans. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 298: 360–369. https://doi.org.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.020

50. Carrera, M. & Ernst, A. (2010): Darriwilian bryozoans from the San Juan Formation (Ordovician), Argentine Precordillera. – Ameghiniana, 47 (3): 343–354.

49. Ernst, A. (2010): Trepostome bryozoans from the Lower – Middle Devonian of NW Spain. – Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 116 (3): 283–308. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/6391

48. Ernst, A. & Königshof, P. (2010): Bryozoan fauna and microfacies from a Middle Devonian reef complex (Western Sahara, Morocco). – Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 568: 1–91.

47. Ernst, A. & Herbig, H.–G. (2010): Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Latest Devonian (uppermost Famennian) of western Germany. – Geologica Belgica, 13 (3): 173–182.

46. Ernst, A. (2009): Petaloporella (Cryptostomata, Bryozoa) from the Lower Devonian of central Bohemia. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 84 (4): 769–772. DOI 3140/bull.geosci.1159

45. Ernst, A. & Mohammadi, M. (2009): Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Geirud Formation (Upper Devonian/Lower Carboniferous) of Central Alborz (Iran). – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 83: 439–447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-009-0027-3

44. Ernst, A., Königshof, P. & Schäfer, P. (2009): Unusual skeletal morphology and systematic description of a new Devonian cryptostome bryozoan from Morocco. – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 83: 449–457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-009-0028-2

43. Ernst, A. & Bohatý, J. (2009): Schischcatella (Fenestrata, Bryozoa) from the Devonian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany. – Palaeontology, 52 (6): 1291–1310. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475–4983.2009.00899.x

42. Ernst, A., Senowbari–Daryan, B. & Rashidi, K. (2009): Bryozoa from the Surmaq Formation (Permian) of Hambast Mountains, south of Abadeh, central Iran. – FACIES, 55 (4): 595–608. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347–009–0188–2

41. Ernst, A. & May, A. (2009): Bryozoan fauna from the Konĕprusy Limestone (Pragian, Lower Devonian) of Zlatý Kůň near Konĕprusy (Czech Republic). – Journal of Paleontology, 83 (5): 767–782. doi:10.1666/09-019.1

40. Hara, U., Ernst, A. & Mikołajewski, Z. (2009): Permian trepostome bryozoans from the Zechstein Main Dolomite (Ca2) of western Poland and NE Germany. – Geological Quarterly, 53 (2): 249–254. https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/7960

39. Ernst, A. & Munnecke, A. (2009): A Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) reefal bryozoan fauna from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: taxonomy and chemostratigraphy. – Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46 (3): 207–229. https://doi.org/10.1139/E09–017

38. Ernst, A., Senowbari–Daryan, B. & Rashidi, K. (2009): Rhabdomesid and cystoporid bryozoans from the Permian of Deh–e Mohammad, Shotori Mountains (north–eastern Iran). – Geobios, 42 (2): 133–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2008.09.001

37. Ernst, A., Senowbari–Daryan, B. & Rashidi, K. (2008): Permian Bryozoa from the Jamal Formation of Shotori Mountains (northeast Iran). – Revue de Paléobiologie, 27 (2): 395–408.

36. Ernst, A. (2008): New data on the Middle Devonian Bryozoa of Germany. – In: Hageman, S.J., Key, M.M., Jr., and Winston, J.E. (eds.), Bryozoan Studies 2007: Proceedings of the 14th International Bryozoology Conference, Boone, North Carolina, July 1–8, 2007. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 15, pp. 29–36.

35. Nakrem, H. A. & Ernst, A. (2008): Arcticopora (Bryozoa, Trepostomata) from the Lower Triassic of Ellesmere Island (Canada) with remarks on some other (Early) Triassic bryozoans. – In: Hageman, S.J., Key, M.M., Jr., and Winston, J.E. (eds.), Bryozoan Studies 2007: Proceedings of the 14th International Bryozoology Conference, Boone, North Carolina, July 1–8, 2007. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 15, pp. 143–152.

34. Ernst, A. (2008): Trepostome and cryptostome bryozoans from the Konĕprusy Limestone (Lower Devonian, Pragian) of Zlatý Kůň (Czech Republic). – Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 114 (3): 329–348. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/5906

33. Ernst, A. (2008): Non–fenestrate bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 250 (3): 313–379. https://doi.org/10.1127/0077–7749/2008/0250–0313

32. Ernst, A. & Carrera, M. (2008): Cryptostomid bryozoans from the Sassito Formation, Upper Ordovician cool–water carbonates of the Argentinean Precordillera. – Palaeontology, 51 (5): 1117–1127. https://doi.org/2010.1111/j.1475–4983.2008.00802.x

31. Ernst, A. & Königshof, P. (2008): The role of bryozoans in fossil reefs – an example from the Middle Devonian of the Western Sahara. – Facies, 54: 613–620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-008-0149-1

30. Ernst, A. Weidlich, O. & Schäfer, P. (2008): Stenolaemate Bryozoa from the Permian of Oman. – Journal of Paleontology, 82 (4): 676–716. https://doi.org/10.1666/07–054.1

29. Ernst, A. & Winkler Prins, C. F. (2008): Pennsylvanian bryozoans from the Cantabrian Mountains (northwestern Spain). – Scripta Geologica, 137: 1–123. http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/08/nr137/a01

28. Taylor, P. D. T. & Ernst, A. (2008): Bryozoans in transition: the depauperate and patchy Jurassic biota. – In: Taylor, P.D. (ed.): Jurassic Marine Palaeobiology. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 263: 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.028

27. Ernst, A. & Schröder, S. (2007): Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of the Rhenish Slate Massif (Eifel, Germany). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie (Abhandlungen), 246 (2): 205–233. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0246-0205

26. Suttner, T. & Ernst, A. (2007): Upper Ordovician Bryozoa of the Pin Formation (Spiti valley, northern India). – Palaeontology, 50 (6): 1485–1518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00726.x

25. Ernst, A. & Key, M. (2007): Upper Ordovician Bryozoa from the Montagne de Noire, southern France. – Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 5 (4): 359–428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1477201907002155

24. Ernst, A., Taylor, P. D. T. & Wilson, M. A. (2007): Ordovician bryozoans from the Kanosh Formation (Whiterockian) of Utah, USA. – Journal of Palaeontology, 81 (5): 998–1008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/pleo05-091.1

23. Ernst, A. (2007): A cystoporate bryozoan species from the Zechstein. – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 81(2): 113–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988385

22. Ernst, A. & Nakrem, H. (2007): Lower Permian Bryozoa from Ellesmere Island (Canada). – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 81 (1): 17–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988378

21. Ernst, A. & Hrouda, F. (2005): Die fossile Bryozoensammlung des Museums für Naturkunde der Stadt Gera. – Veröffentlichungen Museum für Naturkunde der Stadt Gera, Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 32: 152–156.

20. Ernst, A. & Minwegen, E. (2006): Late Carboniferous Bryozoa from La Hermida, Spain. – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51 (3): 569–588.

19. Ernst, A., Senowbari–Daryan, B. & Rashidi, K. (2006): Lower Permian Bryozoa of the Jamal Formation from Bagh–e Vang (Shotori Mountains, northeast Iran). – FACIES 52 (1): 627–635. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347–006–0084–y

18. Ernst, A. & Schäfer, P. (2006): Palaeozoic vs. post–Palaeozoic Stenolaemata: Phylogenetic relationship or morphological affinity? – In: Scholz, J., Taylor, P. D., & Vavra, N. (eds.): Contributions to bryozoology: a tribute to Ehrhard Voigt (1905–2004), pp. 176, Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 257: 49–63.

17. Ernst, A., Senowbari–Daryan, B. & Hamedani, A. (2006): Middle Permian Bryozoa from the Lakaftari area, northeast of Esfahan (central Iran). – Geodiversitas, 28 (4): 543–590.

16. Wyse Jackson, P. N., Ernst, A. & Lisitsyn, D. V. (2006): Thamniscus King, 1849 (Fenestrata: Bryozoa): William King’s original specimens and their bearing on the genus concept. – Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (Paleontological Journal), 40 (1): 75–78 [In Russian and English] https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030106010084

15. Ernst, A. (2005): Lower Carboniferous Bryozoa from some localities in Sauerland, Germany. – In: Moyano, G.I., Cancino, J.M., & Wyse Jackson, P.N. (eds): Bryozoan Studies 2004 – Proceedings of the 13th International Bryozoology Association Conference, Concepcion, Chile, January 2004, 49–62 pp. Balkema Publishing House. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203970799.ch5

14. Ernst, A. & Nakrem, H.A. (2005): Bryozoans from the Artinskian (Lower Permian) Great Bear Cape Formation, Ellesmere Island (Canadian Arctic). – In: Moyano, G.I., Cancino, J.M., & Wyse Jackson, P.N. (eds): Bryozoan Studies 2004 – Proceedings of the 13th International Bryozoology Association Conference, Concepcion, Chile, January 2004, 63–68 pp. Balkema Publishing House.

13. Ernst, A. (2005): Upper Palaeozoic Bryozoa of the Carnic Alps (a review). – Denisia, 16, neue Serie 2: 69–74.

12. Scholz, J., Ernst, A., Batson, P. & Königshof, P. (2005): Bryozoenriffe. – Denisia, 16, neue Serie: 247–262.

11. Ernst, A., Schäfer, P. & Reijmer, J. J. G. (2005): Stenolaemate Bryozoa from the Upper Carboniferous of the Cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain. – Senckenbergiana lethaea, 85 (2): 307–317. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03043613

10. Lisitsyn, D. V. & Ernst, A. (2004): Revision of the Paleozoic genera Thamniscus and Synocladia (Bryozoa). – Paleontological Journal, 3: 53–59. Moscow [In Russian and English]

9. Taylor, P. D. T. & Ernst, A. (2004): Bryozoans. – In: Webby, B. D., Droser, M. L. and. Paris, F. (eds.): The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, 147–156. New York (Columbia University Press). https://doi.org/10.7312/webb12678–017

8. Ernst, A. (2003): Upper Palaeozoic bryozoans from the Carnic Alps (Austria). – Freiberger Forschungshefte, C 499: 55–77.

7. Ernst, A. & Voigt, E. (2002): Zooidal anatomy in Ordovician and Carboniferous trepostome bryozoans. – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 76 (2): 339–346. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02989869

6. Ernst, A. (2002): Some calcareous algae from Zechstein. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 11: 681–692.

5. Ernst, A. (2002): Systematics and biogeography of the Permian bryozoans in Europe. – In: Wyse Jackson, P.N., Buttler, J.C. & Spencer Jones, M.E. (eds): Bryozoan Studies 2001 – Proceedings of the 12th International Bryozoology Association Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 16–21 July 2001. Balkema Publishing House.

4. Ernst, A. (2001): Carnocladiidae – a new family of fenestrate bryozoans. – Senckenbergiana lethaea, 81 (2): 295–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03042783

3. Ernst, A. (2001): Bryozoa of the Upper Permian Zechstein Formation of Germany. – Senckenbergiana lethaea, 81 (1): 135–181. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03043298

2. Ernst, A. (2000): Permian bryozoans of the NW–Tethys. – FACIES, 43: 79–102. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02536985

1. Ernst, A. (1998): Two unusual trepostome bryozoans from the Lower Carboniferous of the Karatau (South Kazakhstan). – Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 72 (1/2): 89–97.

Paläobiologie ausgewählter Gruppen: Modulare Organismen (Korallen und Bryozoen)

 

63-359, Blockkurs (2 Tage), vorlesungsfreie Zeit, Wintersemester

 

Im Rahmen des Kurses wird Paläobiologie von sogenannten „modularen“ Organismen behandelt, die fossil gut überliefert sind. In der Einführung werden „biologische Modularität“ „klonales Wachstum“, „koloniales Wachstum“, sowie „Metamere“ anhand einiger Fallbeispiele erklärt. Des Weiteren werden zwei wichtige Gruppen vorgestellt, welche vorwiegend modular aufgebaut sind und deren Lebensprozesse sich in der Abfolge ihrer verkalkenden Module selbst im Fossilen sehr gut studieren lassen: Korallen und Bryozoen. Die Fragen ihrer Biologie, Evolution, Ökologie sowie die Rolle der modularen Organismen in biogenen Konstruktionen wie Riffen werden ausführlich erläutert. Der theoretische Teil wird von praktischer Arbeit am Mikroskop begleitet. Dies gibt Ihnen die Gelegenheit.  Präparate von fossilen und rezenten Korallen und Bryozoen kennenzulernen und zu analysieren.

 

Lehrerfahrung

 

• Entwicklung der Erde, Vorlesung (2015/16), Universität Kiel
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• Sedimentologie der Karbonate, Vorlesung (2015/16), Universität Kiel
• Principal questions in palaeontology (in Englisch), Vorlesung (2015/16), Universität Kiel
• Petrographie der Karbonate, Praktikum (2003-2013, 2015/16), Universität Kiel
• Exkursion "Historische Geologie von Dänemark" (2016), Universität Kiel
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• Gesteinskunde, Vorlesung und Praktikum, (2009-2011), Universität Kiel
• Geologische Kartierung, (2009-2010), Universität Kiel
• Exkursion "Geologie von Marokko" (2014), Universität Kiel
• Sedimentgeologie der Karbonate, Seminar (2015/16), Universität Hamburg