Dr. Björn Kröger
Addresse
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Invalidenstraße 43
10115 Berlin
Germany
Phone +49 (0)30 2093 8538
Fax +49 (0)30 2093 8565
E-Mail bjoern.kroeger(at)mfn-berlin.de
Status
- Volunteer
Research interests
• Palaeobiology of cephalopods
• Ordovician Radiation
• History of Palaeontology
Research projects
- Habit and habitat of lower Palaeozoic cephalopods
- Late Ordovician cephalopods of Baltoscandia
- The geology of Leopold von Buch (1774-1852)
Publications
(Selection)
Kröger, B., Servais, T., Zhang Y. 2009.The Origin and Initial Rise of Pelagic Cephalopods in the Ordovician. PLoS ONE 4(9): e7262. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007262
Kröger, B. & Zhang Y. 2009. Pulsed cephalopod diversification during the Ordovician. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 273: 174-183.
Kröger, B. 2008. Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro-Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco). - Special Papers in Palaeontology 79, 110pp.
Kröger, B. 2007. On the origin of bactritoids. - Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81: 316-327.
Kröger, B. 2002. On the efficiency of the buoyancy apparatus in ammonoids. - Evidences from sublethal shell injuries. - Lethaia 35: 31-40
