Here you can see some images used for any public request. Some are explicit orders, some used by permit. Scientific stuff that has been published is listed at the previous page.
Here you can see some images used for any public request. Some are explicit orders, some used by permit. Scientific stuff that has been published is listed at the previous page.
a basal ceratopsian from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany
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Reconstruction of Antarctic Petriellales plants from the Lower Triassic, with male and female maquettes
Benjamin Bomfleur, Anne-Laure Decombeix, Andrew B. Schwendemann, Ignacio H. Escapa, Edith L. Taylor, Thomas N. Taylor, Stephen McLoughlin (2014): Habit and Ecology of the Petriellales, an Unusual Group of Seed Plants from the Triassic of Gondwana. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 175(9): 1062-1075.
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large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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Paraceratherium /"Indricotherium" and African elephant Loxodonta africana
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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the archegosaurid temnospondlye Prionosuchus plummeri, the "super-croc" Sarcosuchus imperator, and the myriapod Arthropleura armata
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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the shark Carcharodon megalodon and the bony fish Leedsichthys problematicus
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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Triceratops horridus
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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Tyrannosaurus rex
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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the hadrosaur Shantungosaurus giganteus and the stegosaur Stegosaurus stenops
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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anextant mysticete, the Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus, and an elasmosaur, probably Elasmosaurus
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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azhdarchid pterosaurs like Hatzegopteryx thambema
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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the extant jellyfish Cyanea capillata and the Colossal squid Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni (as damaged from fishery)
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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two Jurassic forms, Brachiosaurus/Giraffatitan brancai and Diplodocus hallorum/"Seismosaurus"
large-sized poster at the Natural History Museum Münster
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Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality
Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.
DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6
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Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality
Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.
DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6
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Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality
Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.
DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6
© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality
Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.
DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6
© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality
Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.
DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6
© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality
Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.
DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6
© 2014 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
Langenberg/Fuchsberg locality
Gregor Barth, Matthias Franz, Carmen Heunisch, Evelyn Kustatscher, Detlev Thies, Jürgen Vespermann and Markus Wolfgramm (2014): Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) brackish to freshwater habitats at a fluvial-dominated delta plain (Seinstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany). - Palaeobiol. Palaeoenv.
DOI 10.1007/s12549-014-0168-6
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preview of a restoration to come
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fun reconstruction, based on a branchiosaur skeleton to which mayfly wings are placed in a way that pretends anatomical association
Werneburg, R. & Brauner, S. (2014): The 'flying branchiosaur' - a mayfly? Freiberger Forschungshefte C 548 (psf 22), 61-69.
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preview of an article to come
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woolly rhinoceros
Museum for Natural History Magdeburg
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'straight-tusked' elephant
Museum for Natural History Magdeburg
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a series illustrating dinosaur footprint producers from both the fluviatile and the shallow lagoon sandstones of Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Germany
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover
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a series illustrating dinosaur footprint producers from both the fluviatile and the shallow lagoon sandstones of Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Germany
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover
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a series illustrating dinosaur footprint producers from both the fluviatile and the shallow lagoon sandstones of Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Germany
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover
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a series illustrating dinosaur footprint producers from both the fluviatile and the shallow lagoon sandstones of Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Germany
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover
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typical Saar-Nahe fossils of ancient trees (calamites, Psaronius, conifer), fish (Triodus, Paramblypterus, cockroach-like insects (Glaphyrophlebia) and large temnospondlys (Sclerocephalus)
Flyer for Urweltmuseum GEOSKOP Thallichtenberg
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North of the Harz mountains: tundra and birch woodland, with the 'Irish Elk' (Megaloceros giganteus and an Arctic redpoll (Carduelis hornemann).
Museum for Natural History Magdeburg
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North of the Harz mountains: warm oak forests, inhabited by the Aurochs (Bos primigenius).
Museum for Natural History Magdeburg
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North of the Harz mountains: artificial steppe with plants flowering in early September, with Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and a Water rail (Rallus aquaticus).
Museum for Natural History Magdeburg
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not quiet often, but by this lucky occasion, i did Pikeia, Microdictyon, and the predator Opabinia
Elicki, O. (2014): Als das Leben „explodierte“ und eine völlig neue Welt entstand (Kambrium). – In: Rothe, P., Storch, V. & von See, C.: Lebensspuren im Stein. Ausflüge in die Erdgeschichte Mitteleuropas – Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 285p.
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unnamed coelycanth fish from the Triassic of Madygen, Kyrgyzstan)
Kogan, I., Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider J.W. & Spindler, F. (2013): The ichthyofauna of the non-marine Triassic Madygen Formation (Southwest Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia). – 6th International Meeting on Mesozoic Fishes: Diversification and Diversity Patterns (abstract volume, Univ. Vienna & Nat. H. Mus. Vienna), 39. [Poster]
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miniatures for a tree of life / illustrated clade
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produced for Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
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procyte (bacteria) and eucyte
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Anamalocaris, Marrella, and ellipsocephalid trilobite
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Orthoceras and Halkieria
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conodont basal vertrebrate, Haikouichthys, and Arandaspis
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Rhynia, Strudiella, and Acanthostega
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Aysheaia and Eoarthropleura
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Lepidodendron, Calamites, Archaeopteris, Cordaites, and conifer
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Sphecomyra, Stephanotypus, and Syscioblatta
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Parexus and Eustenopteron
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Dimetrodon and Eryops
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Nothosaurus, Plateosaurus, and Morganucodon
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Rhamphorhynchus and Archaeopteryx
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Magnolia, Archaeofructus, and Confuciusornis
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Propalaeotherium and Gastornis
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modern man, mammoth, grass
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aquatic eryopids
Werneburg, R. & Berman, D.S. (2012): Revision of the aquatic eryopid temnospondyl Glaukerpeton avinoffi ROMER, 1952, from the Upper Pennsylvanian of North America. - Annals of Carnegie Museum 81(1), 33-60.
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Mordex (largest), Platyrhinops (smaller walking one), Limnogyrinus (largest swimming), Branchiosaurus (larger one with external gills) and Nyranerpeton milneri gen. et spec. nov. (smallest adult), together with their larvae, from Nýřany, Bohemia (Czech Republic), Upper Carboniferous
cover illustration
Werneburg, R. (2012): Dissorophoide Amphibien aus dem Westphalian D (Ober-Karbon) von Nýřany in Böhmen (Tschechische Republik) - der Schlüssel zum Verständnis der frühen 'Branchiosaurier'. - Semana 27: 3-50.
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calamite tree from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany, Early Permian, with an estimated height of about 15 m - one of the first evidence for branched architecture in calamite trees!
Rößler, R., Feng, Z. & Noll, R. (2012): The largest calamite and its growth architecture - Arthropitys bistriata from the Early Permian Petrified Forest of Chemnitz. - Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology 185: 64-78.
Rößler, R. (2014): Farnwälder, Glutwolken und Salzwüsten (Perm). – In: Rothe, P., Storch, V. & von See, C.: Lebensspuren im Stein. Ausflüge in die Erdgeschichte Mitteleuropas – Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 285p.
© 2011 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
generalized schemes of Triassic vertebrates, used as "mapping ground" for microvertebrate remains
Poster for the Paläontologische Gesellschaft annual meeting / Franeck et al. in prep.
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comic style taphonomic story about the volcano eruption that brought down the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany
Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz
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re-make of the simple drawing for the design of the new album of the Swiss band
THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA
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Details from the scene shown below: Longisquama (rotated, as a "dancing lizard"), background with the shark Lonchidion, ostracods, the fishes Sixtelia & Ferganiscus, at the left a snail, at the right the crustacean Almatium (Kazacharthra)
cover illustration from the featured article:
Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implicatiosn for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.
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life scene of the lakustrine fossil lagerstaette Madygen (Triassic, Kyrgyzstan), shore zone with calamites and allochthonous leaves on the lake bed; right above a drifting body of the enigmatic reptile Longisquama, which the palaeoniscid fishes Sixtelia and Ferganiscus feed on; dark colored two sharks of the genus Lonchidion, producers of the egg capsules Palaeoxyris (attached to some calamites, and reconstructed next to the image, together with an original fossil's portrayal); invertebrates: crustaceans (Kazacharthra and Ostracoda), snail and pelecypods
cover illustration from the featured article:
Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implicatiosn for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.
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one of the versions for a digital ecosystem reconstruction, as used for the article cited below; insets: Lonchidion shark (eggs named Palaeoxyris) with capsules attached to calamites, hatchlings feding on a pelecypod pavement, deposited emty eggs
Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Schneider, J.W., Buchwitz, M. & Voigt, S. (2011): A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implicatiosn for mesozoic shark nurseries. - J. Vert. Pal. 31 (5): 937-953.
featured article, cover illustration above; for scientific images klick here
also used for a poster [first poster prize at Munich Pal.Soc. Meeting 2010]:
Kogan, I., Fischer, J., Voigt, S., Licht, M. & Schneider, J.W. (2010): The Madygen lake deposits: A unique multi-taxa kindergarten for Triassic fishes? - Zitteliana B, Abh. Bayr. Staatssamml. Pal. u. Geol. 29 (80. Jahrestagung Pal. Ges.), B 29: 61.
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tetrapod burrows from the Triassic of Morocco (therapsids or procolophonids)
cover illustration with featured article
Procolophon life scene inspired by this
cover illustration for featured article:
Voigt, S., Schneider, J. W., Saber, H., Hminna, A., Lagnaoui, A., Klein, H., Brosig, A. & Fischer, J. (2011): Complex tetrapod burrows from Middle Triassic red-beds of the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco).- Palaios, 26, 555-566.
additional use:
Schön, Stephan: Lebendfutter für die ersten Saurier. - Sächsische Zeitung 10.Sept.2011, 27.
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preparatory steps of the latter, with aluminum foil maquette and digital sketches, fieldwork data discussion by Sebastian Voigt
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five stages of the continental plate condition throughout the earth's past
with special thanks to Marco Roscher and Olaf Elicki
booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection
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Anomalocaris canadensis, on the the first large top predators on earth
booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection
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Arthropleura armata, a giant myriapod, and plants (Nemejcopteris, Neuropteris & Medullosa, Senftenbergia)
booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection
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Pantelosaurus saxonicus, a sphenacodont pelycosaur, and a Medullosa tree
booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection
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the marine Holzmaden fauna, with Stenopterygius (ichthyosaur), Geoteuthis (belemnite calamary) , Lepidotus & Pachycormus (fishes) and Dactylioceras (ammonites)
booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection
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an elasmosaurid plesiosaur, with Pinna (pen shells) in the foreground
booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection
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in scale for the Phanerozoic era
with miniatures of dispositive organisms
man based on Carl Spitzweg's geologist
booklet of the Freiberg Paleontological & Stratigraphical Collection
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Beispielbilder der Gliederfüßer-Gruppen und grobe Übersicht der Systematik
Katalog Insektarium, Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz
© 2010 Frederik Spindler.
erneuerte Skelettgruppe früher Tetanuren, in Reihenfolge der Köpfe v.l.n.r.: Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis, Torvosaurus tanneri, Piatnitzkysaurus floresi, Megalosaurus bucklandi, Afrovenator abakensis und Cryolophosaurus ellioti
für eine australische Fernsehproduktionsfirma (Propero Productions: Dino Stampede, postproductions von Dokus der BBC, National Geografic und Smithonian Channel)
© 2010 Frederik Spindler.
geologische Blockbilder, Gesteinsgefüge, Fossilien und Varianten des Maskottchens „Petro“, unter der Aufgabe der Pädagogik und Geolehre, für die Sonderausstellung „Strandsteine“ in Chemnitz 2007
Rößler, R., Zierold, T., Spindler, F. & Rudolph, F. (2007): Strandsteine – eine Ausstellung des Museums für Naturkunde Chemnitz. Veröff. Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz 30, 5-24.
© 2007 Frederik Spindler. All rights reserved.
In Marokko, gegen Mitte der Kreidezeit, kämpfen zwei Deltadromeus gegen einen riesigen Carcharodontosaurus. In dieser älteren Szene sind beide höchst gewagt mit Protofedern dargestellt, was nicht zutreffen dürfte, dennoch von der PREHISTORIC TIMES verwendet.
weitere Produktionen für PREHISTORIC TIMES unter "Rekonstruktionen"
Bilder von Iguanodon für PREHISTORIC TIMES unter "Dinosaurier"
Prehistoric Times (75), 2006.
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einer der primitivsten kurzschwänzigen Vögel, Confuciusornis sanctus der chinesischen Unterkreide, der mit mehreren Funden tatsächlich eine enge Paarbindung offenbart (das ?Männchen trägt zwei Schmuckfedern, das ?Weibchen gar keine Stoßfedern), verwendet in der Sonderausstellung „Drachen mit Federn“ in Maastricht 2006
Schulp, A. et al. (2006): Draakjes met veren – Vliegende dino’s uit China (Begleitheft zur Ausstellung). Naturhistorische Museum Maastricht und Rotterdam (p.2 & 16).
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Andalgalornis, ein jagender Laufvogel (Phorusrhacidae) des südamerikanischen Känozoikums mit beweglichen, Krallen tragenden Fingern und von etwa 1,5 m Höhe; Auftrag der FAZ
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 01.03.06: "Schreckliche Vögel", Feuilleton (Natur und Wissenschaft).
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eine saltasauriner Titanosauride als Jungtier und Fuß des Alttiers im selben Maßstab, einst Bestandteil des Dinosaurier-Kalenders 2006, dann einem populärwissenschaftlichen Magazin zur Verfügung gestellt
PaleoMir 2 (5), 2008 (p.80).
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der Rudelfund von mindestens sechs Synapsiden (Pelycosauria: Sphenacodontia: Pantelosaurus) aus dem Karbon-Perm-Grenzbereich des Döhlener Beckens bei Dresden (Abschluss des obersten Steinkohlenflözes), verwendet durch die Sonderausstellung „Blumengebirge“ in Dresden 2005
wissenschaftliche Abbildungen
Kunzmann, L. (2005): Blumengebirge – ein fossiles Herbarium (Begleitheft zur Ausstellung). Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie (p.82f).
Rektorat der Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Hrsg. (2007): Wissenschaft vor Ort. Bilder zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, TU BAF, 2. Aufl. (p.245).
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Natural History Museum Kassel