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Andreas Kroh

Mag. Dr. Andreas Kroh

Position

Researcher & Curator


Function


Contact

phone: 0043-1-52177-576
fax: 0043-1-52177-459
e-mail: andreas.kroh@nhm-wien.ac.at


Curriculum Vitae

  • 1976 - born in Vienna
  • 1994 - school leaving exam with distinction
  • 1995-2000 - undergraduate study Earth Sciences/Palaeontology at the University of Vienna
  • 1998-2000 - Masters thesis "Lower Miocene Echinoids from Gebel Gharra, Egypt (Systematics and Palaeoecology)." within the scope of a DFG-FWF Projektbundle
  • 2000 - final exam with distinction
  • 2000-2003 - project-employee in FWF-project P-14366-Bio (leader: Dr. Werner E. Piller)
  • 2000-2004 - post-graduate study at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz
  • 2004 - final exam with distinction; Ph.D. thesis "Neogene Echinoderms of the Central Paratethys (Revision of the Echinoids; Palaeoecology, Biodiversity & Biogeogeography of the Paratethyan Echinoderm Fauna)."
  • 2004 - short term employment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (database management)
  • since 2005 - employed at the NHM Vienna
  • since 2006 - editor of the Series A of the Museum's scientific journal
  • 2007 - Synthesys funded visit at the NHM London
  • 2008 - Conference Convenor of the 4. Arbeitstreffen deutschsprachiger Echinodermenforscher, (4th Workshop of German & Austrian Echinoderm Research) 24.-26. Oktober 2008 Abstract-Volume (4.5 MB)
  • 2009 - opening of the new exhibition "Gaiasphere - System Earth"

Projects

  • DFG-project: STE 857/1-1 "Palaeogeographic and palaeobiogeographic development of the Eastern Mediterranean to Western Indo-Pacific in the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene" (leader: Fritz F. Steininger, Senckenberg Institute, Frankfurt)
  • DFG-project: NE5375-1 "Palaeogeographic and palaeobiogeographic Development of upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene of the Easter Mediterranean Region an western Indopacific" (leader: James H. Nebelsick, University Tübingen)
  • FWF-project: P-11886-Geo "Palaeogeographic and palaeobiogeographic development of the Eastern Mediterranean to Western Indo-Pacific in the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene" (leader: Werner E. Piller, University Graz)
  • FWF-project: P-14366-Bio "Stable Isotopes and changing Miocene palaeoenvironments in the East Alpine region." within the project bundle "Changes in Eastern Alpine Miocene Ecosystems and their Geodynamic Control." (leader: Werner E. Piller, University Graz)
  • FWF-project: 18189-N10 "Biogeographic Differentiation and Biotic Gradients in the Western Indo-Pacific during the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene." (leader: Werner E. Piller, University Graz)

Publications

2010

Kroh, A. (2010): Index of Living and Fossil Echinoids 1971-2008. – Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A, 112: 195-470.

Kroh, A., Lukeneder, A., & Moosleitner, G. (2010): The invertebrate fauna from the Barremian of Serre de Bleyton (Drôme, SE France). Introduction. – Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A, 112: 569-574.

Kroh, A. & Smith, A.B. (2010): The phylogeny and classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids. – Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8/2: 147-212.

Kroh, A. (2010): Schatzsuche im Museum. - Universum 3, Das Naturhistorische: 10-11.

Harzhauser, M., Göhlich, U., Kroh, A., Lukeneder, A., Mandic, O. (2010): Paläontologie. in: Jovanović-Kruspel, S. (ed.). Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. Ein Führer durch die Schausammlungen. 56-85, Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, ISBN: 978-3-902421-47-0.

Srivastava, D. K., Kroh, A. & Kulshreshtha, S. K. (2010): Taxonomic revision of the echinoid Hemicidaris jaisalmerensis Sahni and Bhatnagar, 1955. – Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 55/1: 59-64.

2009

Ávila, S.P., Madeira, P., Zazo, C., Kroh, A., Kirby, M.X., Marques Da Silva, C., Cachão, M., Braga, J.C., & De Frias Martins, A.M. (accepted): Palaeoecology of he Pleistocene (MIS 5.5) Outcrops of Santa Maria Island (Azores) in a Complex Oceanic Tectonic Setting – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.12.014

Berning, B. Reuter, M. Piller, W.E., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A. 2009. Larger foraminifera as a substratum for encrusting bryozoans (Late Oligocene, Tethyan Seaway, Iran) – Facies. doi: 10.1007/s10347-008-0169-x

Gregorova, R., Schultz, O., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A. & Coric, S. (2009): A giant Early Miocene sunfish from the North Alpine foreland basin (Austria) and its implication for molid phylogeny. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29/2: 359-371.

Harzhauser, H., Reuter, M., Piller, W.E., Berning, B., Kroh, A. & Mandic, O. (2009): Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific. - Paläontologische Zeitschrift 83/3: 333-372; doi: 10.1007/s12542-009-0025-5

Harzhauser, M., Sovis, W. & Kroh, A. (2009): Das verschwundene Meer. 48 p., Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. ISBN 978-3-902421-42-5

Hüsing, S.K., Zachariasse, J.W., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Krijgsman, W., Inceöz, M., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., & Kroh, A. (2009): Oligocene-Miocene foreland basin evolution in SE Anatolia: constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway. - In: van Hinsbergen, D. J. J., Edwards, M. A. & Govers, R. (eds): Collision and Collapse at the Africa–Arabia–Eurasia Subduction Zone. The Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 107–132. doi: 10.1144/SP311.4 0305-8719/09/$15.00

Kroh, A., (2009): Mödling an der Korallensee. – Medilihha 01/2009: 24-28 – Mödling.

Kroh, A. & Harzhauser, M. (2009): Die Vernetzte Erde. - Universum 6, Das Naturhistorische: 4-5.

Kroh, A. & Harzhauser, M. (2009): GaiaSphäre – die Erde als System. Ein Führer durch die Ausstellung in Saal 6 des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 48 p., Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. ISBN 978-3-902421-39-5

Kroh, A. & Wolkenstein, K. (2009): Uralte Farben. - Universum 9, Das Naturhistorische: 10-11.

Kroh, A. & Lukeneder, A. (2009): Crinoids from the Late Jurassic of the Nutzhof section (Lower Austria, Gresten Klippenbelt). - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A, 110: 383-399.

Reuter, M., Piller, W.E., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., & Berning, B. (2009): A fossil Everglades-type marl prairie and its paleonvironmental significance. Palaios 24: 747-755. doi: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-062r

Reuter, M., Piller, W.E., Harzhauser, M., Berning, B. & Kroh, A. (2009): Sedimentary evolution of a late Pleistocene wetland indicating extreme coastal uplift in southern Tanzania.- Quaternary Research, 73 (2010): 136-142. doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.09.004

Reuter, M., Piller, W.E., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Rögl, F., Kroh, A., Berning, B., Aubry, M.-P., Wielandt-Schuster, U., & Hamedani, A. (2009): The Oligo-/Miocene Qom Formation (Iran) - evidence for an early Burdigalian restriction of the Tethyan Seaway and closure of its Iranian gateways. - International Journal of Earth Sciences 98/3: 627-650. doi: 10.1007/s00531-007-0269-9

Reuter, M., Piller, W.E., Kroh, A., & Harzhauser, M. (2009): Foraminifera recycling in worm reefs. Coral Reefs doi: 10.1007/s00338-009-0523-7

Rögl, F., Kroh, A., Hoffmann, T. & Zuschin, M. (2009): Exkursion Waschbergzone. – Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 81: 32-49, Wien.

Schneider, S., Berning, B., Bitner, M. A., Carriol, R.-P., Jäger, M., Kriwet, J., Kroh, A. & Werner, W. (2009): A parautochthonous shallow marine fauna from the Late Burdigalian (early Ottnangian) of Gurlarn (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany): Macrofaunal inventory and paleoecology. - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie & Paläontologie, 254/1-2: 63-103.

Wagreich, M., Summesberger, H., & Kroh, A. (2009): Late Santonian bioevents in the Schattau section, Gosau Group of Austria – implications for the Santonian–Campanian boundary stratigraphy. Cretaceous Research doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.10.003

Zágoršek, K., Holcová, K. ,Nehyba, S., Kroh, A. & Hladilová, Š. (2009): The invertebrate fauna from the Middle Miocene (Early Lower Badenian) sediments of Kralice nad Oslavou (Central Paratethys, Moravian part of the Carpathian Foredeep) - Bulletin of Geosciences 84/3: 465-496


2008

Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O. , Piller, W. E, Reuter, M. & Kroh , A. (2008): Tracing back the origin of the Indo-Pacific mollusc fauna – basal Tridacninae from the Oligocene and Miocene of the Sultanate of Oman. Palaeontology, 51:199-213.

İslamoğlu, I., Harzhauser, M., Gross, M., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Coric, S., Kroh, A., Rögl, F., van der Made, J. (2008): From Tethys to Eastern Paratethys: Oligocene depositional environments, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of the Thrace Basin (NW Turkey). - International Journal of Earth Sciences doi: 10.1007/s00531-008-0378-0

Janssen, A.W., Kroh, A. & Ávila, S.P. (2008): Early Pliocene heteropods and pteropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Santa Maria Island (Azores, Portugal): systematics and biostratigraphic implications. Acta Geologica Polonica 58/3: 355-369.

Kroh, A., Bitner, M.A. & Ávila, S.P. (2008): Novocrania turbinata (Brachiopoda) from the Early Pliocene of the Azores (Portugal). Acta Geologica Polonica 58/4: 473-478.

Reuter, M., Piller, W.E., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Bassi, D. (2008): Termination of the Arabian shelf sea: Stacked cyclic sedimentary patterns and timing (Oligocene/Miocene, Oman). Sedimentray Geology doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.09.001

Rögl, F., Ćorić, S., Harzhauser, M., Jimenez-Moreno, G., Kroh, A., Schultz, O., Wessely, G., Zorn , I. (2008): The Middle Miocene Badenian stratotype at Baden-Sooss, Lower Austria . Geologica Carpathica, 59, 367-374.

2007

Kroh, A. (2007): Climate Changes in the Early to Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys and the Origin of its Echinoderm Fauna. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology  253: 185-223 doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.039

Kroh, A. (2007) Hemipatagus - a misinterpreted Loveniid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea). - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(2), 163-192.
doi: 10.1017/S1477201906002021

Kroh, A. & Wagreich, M. (2007): Infulaster (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from the Turonian of the Northern Calcareous Alps. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 100: 154-161

Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Mandic, O., Piller, W.E., Göhlich, U., Reuter M., Berning, B. 2007. Biogeographic responses to geodynamics: A key study all around the Oligo-Miocene Tethyan Seaway. Zoologischer Anzeiger - Journal of Comparative Zoology, 246, 241-256
doi: 10.1016/j.jcz.2007.05.001

Madeira, P., Kroh, A., de Frias Martins, A.M., & Ávila, S.P. 2007 . The marine fossils from Santa Maria Island an historical overview Pp. 59-73 in Ávila, S.P. & de Frias Martins, A.M. ( eds ) Proceedings of the First Atlantic Islands Neogene International Congress . Açoreana, Suplemento 5 59-73.

Piller, W.E., Kroh, A., Mandic, O. (2007): Baden: Der Rauchstallbrunngraben - ein alter Exkursionspunkt. In: Hoffmann, T. (Hrsg.), Wanderungen in die Erdgeschichte 22 - Wien, Niederösterreich, Burgenland. Friedrich Pfeil, München, pp. 141-143.

Piller, W.E., Kroh, A., Mandic, O. (2007): Müllendorf: Der "diagenetische" Kreidesteinbruch. In: Hoffmann, T. (Hrsg.), Wanderungen in die Erdgeschichte 22 - Wien, Niederösterreich, Burgenland. Friedrich Pfeil, München, pp. 164-165.

Schneider, S., Berning, B., Bitner, M. A., Carriol, R.-P., Jäger, M., Kriwet, J., Kroh, A. & Werner, W. (2007): A unique Late Burdigalian paleocommunity from the Upper Marine Molasse (Gurlarn near Passau) - Macrobenthic invertebrate and fish fauna. - Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen des Institutes für Geologie der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 36: 125.

2006

Kroh, A. (2006) Erratum: A. Kroh (2003). First record of gorgonocephalid ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from the Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys. Cainozoic Research 2, 143-156. (Table 2). Cainozoic Research, 4(1-2), 119.

Kroh, A. & Jagt, J.W.M. (2006) Notes on North Sea Basin Cainozoic echinoderms, Part 3. Pliocene gorgonocephalid ophiuroids from borehole IJsselmuiden-1 (Overijssel, The Netherlands). Cainozoic Research, 4(1-2), 67-70.

Kroh, A. & Menkveld-Gfeller, U. (2006): Echinoids from the Belpberg Beds (Obere Meeresmolasse, Middle Burdigalian) in the area of Bern (Switzerland). – Eclogae Geol. Helvetiae 99/2: 193-203. doi: 10.1007/s00015-006-1185-x

Kroh, A. & Nebelsick, J. H. (2006) Stachelige Leckerbissen. Natur und Museum 136(1/2) 6-13, 13 figs., Frankfurt am Main.

Kroh, A. & Smith, A.B. (2006): Case 3356. Schizechinus Pomel, 1869 (Echinodermata: Echinoidea): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Psammechinus serresii Desor, 1855 as type species. - Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62/4: 259-266.
2005

Kroh, A. (2005) Catalogus Fossilium Austriae. Band 2. Echinoidea neogenica. - lvi+210 pp., 82 pls., 94 figs., 11 tabs. - Wien (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) [ISBN 3-7001-3491-6 (Print Edition), ISBN 3-7001-3560-2 (Online Edition)].

Kroh, A. (2005) Seeigel - Stachelige Gesellen aus dem Meer. - In: Steininger, H. & Steiner, E. (Hrdg.) Meeresstrand am Alpenrand - Molassemeer und Wiener Becken. S. 61-67. Weitra (Bibliothek der Provinz).

2004

Kroh, A. (2004) First fossil record of the family Euryalidae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Middle Miocene of the Central Mediterranean. - In: Heinzeller, T. & Nebelsick, J.H. (eds.) Echinoderms: München. - Proc. 11th Internat. Echinoderm Conf., Munich/Germany/6-10 Oct. 2003, p. 447-452 - London (Taylor & Francis).

Kroh, A. (2004) Cottreaucorys kollmanni n. sp. (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) and other new records from the Early Paleocene Bruderndorf Formation in Austria. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 106A: 309-325, 2 pls., 3 figs., Wien.

Kroh, A. & Jagt, J.W.M. (2004) Additional records of Late Cretaceous and Early Palaeogene echinoids from the Gschliefgraben (Ultrahelvetic, Upper Austria). - Acta Geologica Polonica 54/4: 551-571, 8 pls., 11 figs., 1 appendix, Warszawa.
Plates to Kroh & Jagt (2004)

Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M., Schlaf, J., Piller, W. E., Schuster, F., Wielandt-Schuster, U., Nebelsick, J. H., Kroh, A., Rögl, F., Bassant, P. (2004) Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of an Epicontinental Flooding - Burdigalian (Early Miocene) of the Mut Basin (Southern Turkey). - In: Steininger, F. F., Piller, W. E. & Rögl, F. (eds.) Oligocene/Miocene transitions in the Eastern Mediterranean. - Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248: 57-92, Frankfurt/Main. (ISBN 3-510-61367-8)

Wielandt-Schuster, U., Schuster, F., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Kroh, A., Rögl, F., Reisinger, J., Liebetrau, V., Steininger, F. F., Piller, W. E. (2004) Stratigraphy and palaeoecology of Oligocene and Early Miocene sedimentary sequences of the Mesohellenic Basin (NW Greece). - In: Steininger, F. F., Piller, W. E. & Rögl, F. (eds.) Oligocene/Miocene transitions in the Eastern Mediterranean. - Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248: 1-56, Frankfurt/Main. (ISBN 3-510-61367-8)

2003

Kroh, A. (2003) Echinoderms of the Karpatian. - In: Brzobohatý, R., Cicha, I., Kovác, M., & Rögl, F. (eds.) The Karpatian - A Lower Miocene Stage of the Central Paratethys., 247-256, 1 pl., with appendix by Eva Pospíchalová - Brno (Masaryk University).

Kroh, A. (2003) First record of gorgonocephalid ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from the Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys. - Cainozoic Research, 2(1-2) 143-155.

Kroh, A. (2003) The Polyplacophora (Mollusca) of the Langhian (Lower Badenian) of the Molasse Zone and the northern Vienna Basin (Austria). - Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 104A: 129-143, 2 pls., 1 fig. - Wien.

Kroh, A. (2003) The Brachiopoda of the Langhian (Lower Badenian) of the Molasse Zone and the northern Vienna Basin (Austria). - Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 104A:145-153, 1 pl., 2 figs. - Wien.

Kroh, A. (2003) The Echinodermata of the Langhian (Lower Badenian) of the Molasse Zone and the northern Vienna Basin (Austria). - Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 104A:155-183, 5 pls., 4 figs. - Wien.

Kroh, A. (2003) Palaeobiology and biogeography of a Danian echinoid fauna of Lower Austria. - In: Féral, J.-P. & David, B. (eds.) Echinoderm Research 2001. - Proc. 6th Europ. Conf. Echinoderms, Banyuls/France/3-7 Sept. 2001, p. 69-75 - Lisse (Swets & Zeitlinger).

Kroh, A., Harzhauser, M., Piller, W. E., Rögl, F. (2003) The Lower Badenian (Middle Miocene) Hartl Formation (Eisenstadt - Sopron Basin, Austria). - In: Piller, W. E. (ed.). Stratigraphia Austriaca. - Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Komm. 16, 87-109. - Wien
Kroh, A. & Nebelsick, J. (2003) Echinoid assemblages as a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction - an example from the Early Miocene of Egypt. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 201 (1-2) 157-177 - Amsterdam. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00610-2

Rögl, F., Brzobohatý, R., Cicha, I., Coric, S., Daxner-Höck, G., Doláková, N., Harzhauser, M., Hladilová, Š., Kroh, A., Kvacek, Z., Mandic, O., Olshtynska, A., Pisera, A., Reichenbacher, B., Schultz, O., Švábenická, L., Tempfer, P.M., Vávra, N., & Zorn, I. (2003) Paleobiological Characterization of the Karpatian Stage. - In: Brzobohatý, R., Cicha, I., Kovác, M., & Rögl, F. (eds.) The Karpatian - A Lower Miocene Stage of the Central Paratethys., 360 p. - Brno (Masaryk University).

Zágoršek, K. & Kroh, A. (2003) Cretaceous Bryozoa from Scharrergraben (Santonian, Gosau Group, Eastern Alps). - Geologica Carpathica 54/6: 395-407 - Bratislava.

2002

Kroh, A. (2002) Die Echiniden (Echinodermata) aus dem Karpatium des Korneuburger Beckens und der Kreuzstettner Bucht (Niederösterreich, Untermiozän). - Beitr. Paläont. 27, 305-315 - Wien.

Nebelsick, J.H. & Kroh, A. (2002) The Stormy Path from Life to Death Assemblages: The Formation and Preservation of Mass Accumulations of Fossil Sand Dollars. Palaios 17/4, 378-393.

2001

Kroh, A. (2001) Echinoids from the Danian (Lower Paleocene) Bruderndorf Formation of Austria. - In: Piller, W. E. & Rasser, M. W. (eds.) Paleogene of the Eastern Alps. - Österr. Akad Wiss., Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Kommiss. 14: 377-463 - Wien

Schmid, H.-P., Harzhauser, M., & Kroh, A. (2001) Hypoxic Events in a Middle Miocene Carbonate Platform of the Central Paratethys (Austria, Badenian, 14 Ma). - Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 102A: 1-50 - Wien

1999

Kroh, A. & Harzhauser, M. (1999) A new Echinoderm Fauna from the Lower Miocene of the Central Paratethys: Paleoecology and Implications for Paleobiogeography. - Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 101A: 145-191 - Wien

Abstracts

2006
İslamoġlu, Y., Harzhauser, M., Gross, M., Coric, S., Jiménez-Moreno, G. & Kroh, A. (2006) The Early Oligocene Thrace Basin (NW Turkey) as a tie point betweent two different paleobiogeographic realms. - 59. Geological Congress of Turkey, March 20-24.2006, The Chamber of Geological Engineers, Congress Center of General Directorate of MTA, Abstracts. (Vortrag)
Kroh, A. (2006) Neogene Echinodermen der Zentralen Paratethys – Biogeographie & Klima. - 76. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Kiel 28.-30. August 2006, Berichte des Instituts für Geowissenschaften Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel 22: 71-73. (Vortrag)
Kroh, A. (2006) Diversity and biogeography of the Central Paratethyan echinoderm fauna during the Neogene. - Atlantic Island Neogene International Congress 12-14. June 2006 - Program and Abstracts, p. 19. (Vortrag)
Kroh, A. (2006) Condensation horizons in the Miocene Globigerina Limestone of Malta and their impact on echinoderm communities. In: Tessadri-Wackerle (ed.) PANGEO Austria 2006, 17.-21. September 2006, Innsbruck. p. 161-162, Innsbruck University Press. (Vortrag)
Kroh, A. (2006) Hemipatagus & Maretia - ähnlich, aber doch nicht gleich. Eine (Seeigel-) Geschichte voll Verwechslungen. - Österreichische Paläontologische Gesellschaft 12. Jahrestagung 19.-21. Mai 2006, Bad Vöslau, Tagungsprogramm - Abstracts - Exkursionen, p. 21-22. (Poster)
Kroh, A., Harzhauser, M., Piller, W.E., Reuter, M., Mandic, O. & Berning, B. (2006) Von Acroporen-Teppichen und Elefantenmuscheln, Oberoligozäne Karbonate der Arabischen Platte und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung der Indopazifischen Faunenprovinz. - Österreichische Paläontologische Gesellschaft 12. Jahrestagung 19.-21. Mai 2006, Bad Vöslau, Tagungsprogramm - Abstracts - Exkursionen, p. 23-24. (Vortrag)
Kroh, A., Summesberger, H. & Wagreich, M. (2006) Integrated biostratigraphy of the Schattaugraben, type section of the Hochmoos Formation (Upper Santonian, Gosau Group, Salzburg). In: Tessadri-Wackerle (ed.) PANGEO Austria 2006, 17.-21. September 2006, Innsbruck. p. 163, Innsbruck University Press. (Poster)
Piller, W.E., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A. & Reuter, M. (2006) Oligo/Miocene biota of S-Oman as witness for biogeographic differentiation and biotic gradients in the western Indo-Pacific - EGU Congress 2006, Session SSP1: Open session on Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Paleontology (co-listed in CL). abstract ID-Nr.: ID-NR: EGU06-A-04902.(Vortrag)
Reuter, M., Piller, W.E., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Mandic, O. & Berning, B. (2006) Flachmarine Faunen aus dem Oman und ihre Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der indopazifischen Faunenprovinz im Oligo/Miozän. In: Tessadri-Wackerle (ed.) PANGEO Austria 2006, 17.-21. September 2006, Innsbruck. p. 279-280, Innsbruck University Press. (Poster)
Reuter, M., Piller, W.E., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Mandic, O. & Berning, B. (2006) Faunengradienten im Oligozän/Miozän des westlichen Indopazifiks: Erste Ergebnisse aus dem Oman. - 76. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Kiel 28.-30. August 2006, Berichte des Instituts für Geowissenschaften Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel 22: 108-109. (Poster)

2005
Kroh, A. (2005) Evolution of the Central Paratethyan echinoderm fauna and its climatic implications. - 12th Congress R.C.M.N.S., 6-11. Sept. 2005, Vienna - Program, Abstracts & Participants: 145-146, Vienna. Kroh, A. (2005) Freak show or useful Tools in Palaeoecological Reconstruction - The role of Echinoderms in Oligo-Miocene Carbonate Systems. - ESF Workshop on Carbonate Systems during the Oligocene-Miocene climatic transition, 22-26. Feb. 2005, Potsdam.
Nebelsick, J.H. & Kroh, A. (2005) Bored echinoids: predation patterns on Echinocyamus from the Oligo-Miocene of Europe - The Palaeontological Association 49th Annual Meeting, 18th-21st December 2005, University of Oxford

2004
Kroh, A. (2004) Closing a gap - Discovery of a rare echinothurioid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in the Miocene of Styria. - PANGEO II, Graz, 24.-26. Sept. 2003 - Ber. Inst. Erdwiss. K.F.-Univ. Graz 9: 231-232, Graz.
Kroh, A. (2004) Echinoneus & Echinometra - Two new records of tropical echinoids from the Miocene of Austria and their palaeoclimatic implications. - PANGEO II, Graz, 24.-26. Sept. 2003 - Ber. Inst. Erdwiss. K.F.-Univ. Graz 9: 229-230, Graz.
Kroh, A. (2004) New echinothurioid echinoids from the Middle Miocene of the Mediterranean and the Central Paratethys. - In: Reich, Hagdorn, H. & Reitner, J. (2004) Stachelhäuter 2004, 3. Arbeitstreffen deutschsprachiger Echinodermenforscher, Ingelfingen, 29.-31. Okt. 2004, p. 35-37, Göttingen (Universitätsdrucke Göttingen).
Nebelsick, J.H. & Kroh, A. (2004) Snails eating sea-urchins. - Predation patterns on the echinoid Echinocyamus from the Oligo-Miocene of Europe. (Abstract No: 78583) - Session: The Hunters and the Hunted: Predation On and By Gastropods, GSA Meeting Nov. 2004 - GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5.

2003
Harzhauser, M., Schultz, O., Schmid, H.-P. & Kroh, A. (2003) Mass-Mortalities due to Hypoxic Events in a Middle Miocene Carbonate Platform (Austria, Badenian, ~14 Ma.). - EPA Workshop, Exceptional Preservations, Abstract, Teruel.
Kroh, A. (2003) Biodiversity of western Central Paratethys echinoderms during the Neogene. - 11th International Echinoderm Conference, Munich, 6-10 Oct. 2003, Abstracts (not paginated)
Kroh, A. (2003) First record of Basket-Stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Gorgonocephalidae) from the Miocene of the Central Paratethys. - Shallow Tethys 6, International Symposium, 25-28.August.2003, Abstracts, p. 24, Budapest.
Kroh, A. (2003) First fossil record of the family Euryalidae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Middle Miocene of the Central Mediterranean. - 11th International Echinoderm Conference, Munich, 6-10 Oct. 2003, Abstracts (not paginated)
Kroh, A. (2003) The echinoderm fauna of the Badenian (Middle Miocene) of Gainfarn, Lower Austria (Vienna Basin). - Shallow Tethys 6, International Symposium, 25-28.August.2003, Abstracts, p. 25, Budapest.
Kroh, A., Erhart, C. W. & Piller, W. E. (2003) Gradients in reef-associated echinoderm faunas in the Badenian (Middle Miocene) of the Styrian Basin, Austria. - First Austrian reef Workshop 30-31 May 2003, Abstracts Volume, p. 26-27 - Vienna
Kroh, A. & Jagt, J.W.M. (2003) Tethyan echinoids from the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene of the Gschliefgraben (Eastern Alps, Upper Austria). 11th International Echinoderm Conference, Munich, 6-10 Oct. 2003, Abstracts (not paginated)
Nebelsick, J.H. & Kroh, A. (2003) A question of being bored - predation on Echinocyamus from the Oligo-Miocene of Europe. - 11th International Echinoderm Conference, Munich, 6-10 Oct. 2003, Abstracts (not paginated)
Nebelsick, J. & Kroh, A. (2003) The explosive expansion of a novel constructional morphological type: Clypeasteroid Echinoids in the Cainozoic (Vortrag). - 73. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Mainz, 29 Sept. - 3 Oct. 2003, Abstracts (not paginated)

2002
Dominici, S. & Kroh, A. (2002) Echinoderm Lagerstätten in Western Emilia, Italy and their relationship to climate and tectonic setting. - In: Brock, G.A. & Talent, J.A. (eds.) First International Paleontological Congress, IPC 2002, Sydney: Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts no. 68, p. 201-202, Sydney.
Kroh, A. (2002) Die Echinodermatenfauna des Unteren Badenium (Langhium, Mittel-Miozän) des Eisenstadt-Sopron Beckens (Österreich, Zentrale Paratethys). - 2. Treffen deutschsprachiger Echinodermologen, Programm und Abstracts, 19-20, Berlin.
Kroh, A. (2002) Die Echinodermen des Badenium (Mittel-Miozän) von Gainfarn, Niederösterreich. - 9. Jahrestagung Österr. Paläont. Ges. 2002 Ber. Inst. Geol. Paläont. K.-F.-Univ. Graz 5: 11-13, Graz.
Kroh, A. (2002) Die Polyplacophoren des Badenium (Mittel-Miozän) von Gainfarn, Niederösterreich. - 9. Jahrestagung Österr. Paläont. Ges. 2002 - Ber. Inst. Geol. Paläont. K.-F.-Univ. Graz 5: 10-11, Graz
Kroh, A. & Harzhauser, M. (2002) Palaeoecology of a Badenian echinoderm-brachiopod assemblage from the initial Leitha Platform ("Hartl-sands", Eisenstadt - Austria). - Abstracts, Molasse-Meeting 2002, p. 17-19 - Wien
Kroh, A., Harzhauser, M. & Piller, W. E. (2002) Mass accumulations of regular sea urchins in the Late Badenian (Middle Miocene) of the Leitha Platform (Eastern Austria). - Programm & Kurzfassungen, Pangeo I, 2002, p. 101-102 - Salzburg
Kroh, A, Piller, W. E., Harzhauser, M. & Rögl, F. (2002) Die Hartl-Formation - ein neuer Name für die "Terebratelsande von Eisenstadt" (Mittel-Miozän, Unteres Badenium; Eisenstadt-Sopron Becken). - In: Piller, W. E. & Van Husen, D. (eds.) Austrostrat 2002, St. Georgen im Attergau, 11.-13.Okt.2002, Vortragskurzfassungen und Exkursionsunterlagen. p. 13, St. Georgen.
Latal, C., Kroh, A. & Piller, W.E. (2002) Environmental interpretation by stable isotope data in the Miocene Styrian Basin (Austria). - Hüssner et al. (eds.) Sediment 2002, Abstracts and Programme. - Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 17: 128-129 - Darmstadt Latal, C., Kroh, A. & Piller, W.E. (2002) Stable isotope signatures at the Karpatian-Badenian boundary in the Styrian Neogene Basin. - Abstracts, Molasse-Meeting 2002, p. 19-20 - Wien
Nebelsick J. H. & Kroh A. (2002) Stormy weather: The sedimentology and fabric of mass fossil accumulations in shoreface environments. - Hüssner et al. (eds.) Sediment 2002, Abstracts and Programme. - Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 17: 149 - Darmstadt

2001
Kroh, A. (2001) Paläoökologie und Biogeographie der paläozänen Echinidenfauna der Bruderndorf Fm. (Niederösterreich). - Abstracts, Jahrestagung Österr. Paläont. Ges. 2001, p. 7, Mannersdorf, NÖ.
Kroh, A. (2001) Palaeoecology and biogeography of a Danian echinoid fauna of the Bruderndorf Fm. (NE Austria). - Abstracts, Europ. Echinoderm Conf., p. 36, Banyuls-sur-mer, France.
Kroh, A. (2001) Palaeontological implications of skeletal modification by predation - using Paracentrotus lividus (Echinoidea) from the Mediterranean sea as an example. - In: Barker, M. (ed.) Echinoderms 2000. - Proc. 10th Int. Echinoderm Conf.,Dunedin/New Zealand/31 Jan. - 4. Feb. 2000, A. A. Balkema, p. 477 - Rotterdam.
Kroh, A. (2001) Taxonomy and Evolution of the Family Scutellidae (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida) during the Oligo-Miocene. - Gulf of Mexico Science 2001/2: 181-182.
Kroh, A. (2001) Taxonomy and evolution of the family Scutellidae (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida) during the Oligo-Miocene. - Abstracts, 4th North American Echinoderm Conf., p. 20, Portland, ME.
Kroh A. & Nebelsick J. (2001) Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of Lower Miocene echinoids from the Eastern Desert, Egypt. - In: Barker, M. (ed.) Echinoderms 2000. - Proc. 10th Int. Echinoderm Conf.,Dunedin/New Zealand/31 Jan. - 4. Feb. 2000, A. A. Balkema, p. 475 - Rotterdam.
Nebelsick J. & Kroh A. (2001) The ecology and taphonomy of mass sand dollar deposits of the Mediterranean Miocene. - Int. Conf. Paleobiogeography & Paleoecology, Piacenza & Castell' Arquato, Italy, May 31- June 2 2001, p. 103-104 - Piacenza, Italy
Nebelsick J. H. & Kroh A. (2001) Sedimentological and evolutionary implications of mass deposits of echinoids - 21th IAS Meeting 2001, Abstracts- Davos

2000
Nebelsick, J. & Kroh, A. (2000) Paläoökologie und Sedimentologie von Echiniden-Massenvorkomen aus dem Untermiozän von Ägypten. - 70. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Coburg. - Vorträge und Poster. 2000; 3: 86.
Schmid, H.-P., Harzhauser, M., & Kroh, A. (2000) Sedimentologisch-paläontologische Untersuchungen an einer mittelmiozänen Karbonatplattform der Zenralen Paratethys (Eisenstadt-Sopron Becken, Badenium).- 5. Österreichischer Sedimentologen Workshop, 4. Sept. 2000.
Schuster, F., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Mandic, O., Nebelsick, J., Piller, W. E., Rögl, F., Steininger, F. F., Wielandt-Schuster, U. (2000) The Closure of the Tethyan Seaway/Gateway: new Stratigraphical and Paleobiogeographical Results. - RCMNS Meeting 2000, Morocco.
Wielandt-Schuster, U., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Mandic, O., Nebelsick, J., Piller, W. E., Rögl, F., Schuster, F., Steininger, F. F. (2000) Paläobiogeographische Relevanz von Grossforaminiferenfaunen des Mittleren Ostens. - 70. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Coburg. - Vorträge und Poster. 2000; 3.

1999
Harzhauser, M. & Kroh, A. (1999) Palökologie der Echinidenfaunen von Unternalb (Retz-Formation - Eggenburgium). - Abstract, Arbeitstagung der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 1999. Retz - Hollabrunn, p. 221-222, Wien.
Kroh, A. & Harzhauser, M. (1999) Palökologie der Echinidenfaunen von Unternalb (Retz-Formation - Eggenburgium). - Abstracts, Jahrestagung der ÖPG 1999, p. 4-6 - Hallein
Nebelsick J. & Kroh A. (1999) Palaeoecology and taphonomy of Parascutella beds from the Lower Miocene of the Eastern Desert, Egypt. - In: Candia Carnevali, D. M. & Bonasoro, F. (eds.) Echinoderm Research 1998. - Proc. 5th Europ. Conf. Echinoderms, Milan/Italy/7-12 Sept. 1998, A. A. Balkema, p. 353 - Rotterdam

1998
Piller W. E., Abdelghany O., Kroh A., Mandic O., Nebelsick J., Schlaf J. & Schuster F. (1998) Transgressive Folgen und Lumachellbildung in einer untermiozänen Abfolge der Östlichen Wüste (Gebel Gharra, W'Suez, Ägypten). - Erlanger Geologische Abhandlungen Sonderbd. 2: 74-75 - Erlangen


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  • Leader of the OeTyp-project (Catalogue of palaeontological types in Austrian collections; since 2004)
  • Editor of the journal "Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A" (since 2006)
  • Member of the Synthesys User Selection Panel for AT-TAF
  • Advisory board of the Paleontological Society of Austria (since 2009)


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  • "Würdigungspreis 2000" of the Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Arts
  • "Kulturpreis des Landes Niederösterreich 2007", Section Sciences of the Lower Austrian government




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