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Professor Dr. Martin Sander

Address Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Abteilung Paläontologie
Nußallee 8
53115 Bonn

Projects

As Applicant
- Completed projects
  - The Microstructure of Reptilian Tooth Enamel: Terminology, Function and Rhylogeny (Publication Grants)
  - Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism (Research Units)
  - Life history and growth of sauropods (Research Units)
  - Comparative bone histology of the turtle shell (carapace and plastron): Implications for turtle systematics, functional morphology, and turtle origins (Research Grants)
  - The ontogeny of the dwarf sauropod Europasaurus holgeri and the phylogeny of basal Macronaria (Saurischia, Sauropoda) (Research Grants)
  - Anatomy and relationships of the basal sauropodomorph dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Norian of Frick, Jura Mountains, Switzerland (Research Grants)
  - Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism (Research Units)
  - Modelling growth, vital statistics and energy budget of sauropods: key features contributing to gigantism. (Research Units)
  - Histology and morphology of sauropod cervical ribs: Implications for neck posture (Research Units)
  - Fibrolamellar bone in basal Archosauromorpha: Tracing the evolution of high growth rates. (Research Units)
  - Long bone histology of Lower Permian pelycosaurs, implications for the evolution of endothermy at the beginning of the mammal lineage (Research Grants)
  - Revision of the basal sphenacodonts (Haptodontinae): systematic and evolutionary implications (Research Grants)
  - Marine reptiles from Nevada: Recovery of a Middle Triassic pregnant ichthyosaur and the first unequivocally Lower Triassic ichthyosaurs from North America (Research Grants)
  - Inferring the Swimming Mode of Jurassic Plesiosaurs Using Muscle Reconstructions, Bone Histology, and Advanced Finite Element Methods (Research Grants)
  - Cortical bone remodeling and Haversian bone in amniotes: a deep-time and comparative perspective (Research Grants)
  - Origin and early diversification of Plesiosauria and the influence of the end-Triassic extinction event: insights from the first unequivocal Triassic plesiosaurs (Research Grants)
  - A View from the Other Side of the World: Middle Triassic Ichthyosaurs of Nevada and Their Implications for the Initial Phase of the Mesozoic Marine Revolution in the Eastern Pacific Realm (Research Grants)
  - The organic phase in dinosaur eggshell: analysis, models of preservation, and implications for the evolution of bird reproduction (Research Units)
As Spokesperson
- Completed projects
  - FOR 533: Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism (Research Units)
As Participating Researcher
- Completed projects
  - GRK 721: Evolution and Biodiversity in Space and Time (Research Training Groups)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - The hierarchical structure of sauropodomorph bones as a key to exceptional body size: Insights from materials science (Research Units)
  - Feeding strategies in sauropodomorphs: The evolution of extreme neck length and very large body size (Research Units)
As Ehemaliger Antragsteller
- Current projects
  - Coordination Funds (Research Units) to 4/2023
  - Nose dive upside down: A new look at the ichthyosaur taphonomy and implications for paleobiology (Research Grants) to 6/2023
  - The enigmatic Omphalosaurus: the key to the early evolution of ichthyosaurs in the Triassic? (Research Grants) (1/2022 - 8/2023)
- Completed projects
  - Organic phase (extracellular matrix, osteocyte, blood vessel) preservation in dinosaur bone: Chemical composition and hypotheses of preservation (Research Units) to 3/2023
As Cooperation Partner
- Completed projects
  - Physico-chemical and microbial processes governing the decay of organic substance in sediment under anoxic conditions (Research Units)
As Co-Investigator
- Completed projects
  - Exploratory field work in the Lower and Middle Triassic of Svalbard — Diversity and Stratigraphy of Lower and Middle Triassic Ichthyosauria of Svalbard (Research Grants)

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