PhD
Thomas A. Neubauer

FWF project P25365-B25: "Freshwater systems in the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: Gastropod biodiversity, provinciality, and faunal gradients"
2008-2012 - Collection re-arrangements and sample processing at the Natural History Museum Vienna
2010 - Graduation with distinction & master thesis: Quantifying evolution - paleolake mollusks from the Dinaride Lake System (Middle Miocene, Sinj Basin, SE Croatia), supervised by Ao. Prof. Dr. Martin Zuschin and Dr. Oleg Mandic
Since 2011 - PhD study of Paleobiology at the University of Vienna
2012 - PraeDoc research grant of the University of Vienna
Since 2013 - Project researcher in the FWF project P25365-B25 "Freshwater systems in the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: Gastropod biodiversity, provinciality, and faunal gradients"
2013 - Graduation with distinction & PhD thesis: Development of the Miocene Freshwater Gastropod Fauna of Middle and Southeastern Europe, supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Zuschin and PD Dr. Mathias Harzhauser
2014 - Preis für Paläobiologie (ÖAW)
2016
Chen, Y., Neubauer, T.A., Krystyn, L., Richoz,
S. 2016. Allometry in Anisian (Middle Triassic) segminiplanate conodonts and its implications for conodont taxonomy. Palaeontology.
doi: 10.1111/pala.12253
Georgopoulou,
E., Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Mandic, O. 2016. Distribution patterns of European lacustrine gastropods: a
result of environmental factors and deglaciation history. Hydrobiologia, 775 (1), 69-82, doi: 10.1007/s10750-016-2713-y
Georgopoulou, E., Neubauer, T.A., Strona,
G., Kroh, A., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M. 2016. Beginning of a new age: How did freshwater gastropods respond to the Quaternary
climate change in Europe?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 149, 269-278. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.07.034
Harzhauser, M., Djuricic, A., Mandic, O., Neubauer,
T.A., Zuschin, M., Pfeifer, N. 2016. Age structure, carbonate production and shell loss rate in an Early Miocene reef of the
giant oyster Crassostrea gryphoides. Biogeoscience, 13, 1223-1235, doi:10.5194/bg-13-1223-2016
Harzhauser,
M., Mandic, O., Büyükmeriç, Y., Neubauer, T.A., Kadolsky, D., Landau, B.M. 2016. A Rupelian mangrove swamp mollusc fauna from
the Thrace Basin in Turkey. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 145 (1), 23-58, doi: 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/145/023-058 [PDF upon
request]
Harzhauser,
M., Mandic, O., Neubauer, T.A., Georgopoulou, E., Hassler, A. 2016. Disjunct distribution of the Miocene limpet-like freshwater
gastropod genus Delminiella. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 82 (1), 129-136, doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyv040
Harzhauser, M., Neubauer, T.A., Kadolsky, D., Pickford,
M., Nordsieck, H. 2016. Terrestrial and lacustrine gastropods from the Priabonian (upper Eocene) of the Sultanate of Oman.
Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 90 (1), 63-99, doi: 10.1007/s12542-015-0277-1
Jochum,
A., Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M. 2016. Microstructural details in shells of the gastropod genera Carychiella and
Carychium of the Middle Miocene. Lethaia, 49 (1), 87-101, doi: 10.1111/let.12134
Neubauer,
T.A. 2016. A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea). ZooKeys, 602, 1-358, doi:
10.3897/zookeys.602.8136
Neubauer, T.A.,
Georgopoulou, E., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Kroh, A. 2016. Predictors of shell size in long-lived lake gastropods. Journal
of Biogeography, doi:
Neubauer,
T.A., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Georgopoulou, E. Kroh, A., 2016. Paleobiogeography and historical biogeography of the non-marine
caenogastropod family Melanopsidae. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 444, 124-243, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.017
Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Mandic,
O., Kroh, A., Georgopoulou, E. 2016. Evolution, turnovers and spatial variation of the gastropod fauna of the late Miocene
biodiversity hotspot Lake Pannon. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 442, 84-95, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.11.016
Neubauer, T.A., Mandic, O., Harzhauser,
M. 2016. The early Middle Miocene lacustrine gastropod fauna of Džepi, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dinaride Lake System): high
endemism in a small space. Bulletin of Geosciences, 91 (2), 23-58, doi: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1584
Neubauer,
T.A., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M. 2016. The freshwater mollusk fauna of the Middle Miocene Lake Drniš (Dinaride Lake System,
Croatia): a taxonomic and systematic revision. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 108 (2), 15-67, doi: 10.17738/ajes.2015.0013
Popular science
Neubauer, T.A., Georgopoulou, E. 2016. Europas Süßwasser-Biodiversität
im Wandel der Zeit. Universum, 2016 (6-7), 122-123.
2015
Georgopoulou, E., Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Mandic, O. 2015. An outline of the European Quaternary
localities with freshwater gastropods: Data on geography and updated stratigraphy. Palaeontologia Electronica, 18 (3), 48A
(9 pp.).
Harzhauser, M., Neubauer, T.A., Georgopoulou, E., Esu, D., D'Amico, C., Pavia, G., Giuntelli, P.,
Carnevale, G. 2015. Late Messinian continental and Lago-Mare gastropods from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy. Bollettino
della Società Paleontologica Italiana. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 54 (1), 1-53, doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2015.1
Mandic, O., Kurečić, T., Neubauer,
T.A., Harzhauser, M. 2015. Stratigraphic and paleogeographic significance of lacustrine molluscs from the Pliocene Viviparus beds
in central Croatia. Geologia Croatica, 68 (3), 179-207, doi: 10.4154/gc.2015.15
Neubauer, T.A., Georgopoulou, E., Kroh, A., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Esu, D. 2015. Synopsis of European Neogene
freshwater gastropod localities: updated stratigraphy and geography. Palaeontologia Electronica, 18 (1), 3T (7 pp.).
Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Georgopoulou, E., Kroh, A., Mandic,
O. 2015. Tectonics, climate, and the rise and demise of continental aquatic species richness hotspots. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (37), 11478-11483, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1503992112
Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Georgopoulou, E., Mandic, O. 2015. A gastropod-based biogeographic scheme
for the European Neogene freshwater systems. Earth-Science Reviews, 143, 98-116, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.01.010
Neubauer, T.A.,
Harzhauser, M., Pipík, R. 2015. Upper Miocene endemic lacustrine gastropod fauna of the Turiec Basin: addressing taxonomic,
paleobiogeographic and stratigraphic issues. Geologica Carpathica, 66 (2), 139-156, doi: 10.1515/geoca-2015-0016
Neubauer, T.A., Kroh, A., Harzhauser,
M., Georgopoulou, E., Mandic, O. 2015. Taxonomic note on problematic Neogene European freshwater Gastropoda. Annalen des Naturhistorischen
Museums in Wien, Serie A, 117, 95-100.
2014
Neubauer,
T.A., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Georgopoulou, E., Mandic, O. 2014. The FreshGEN Database: Freshwater Gastropods of the European
Neogene. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/freshgen
Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Georgopoulou, E., Wrozyna, C. 2014. Population bottleneck triggering millennial-scale morphospace shifts in endemic thermal-spring melanopsids. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 414, 116-128, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.08.015
Neubauer, T.A., Kroh, A., Harzhauser, M., Georgopoulou, E., Mandic, O. 2014. Synopsis of valid species-group taxa for freshwater Gastropoda recorded from the European Neogene. ZooKeys, 435, 1-6, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.435.8193 Data File
Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Georgopoulou, E., Mandic, O. 2014. Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda. Part 2. ZooKeys, 429, 13-46, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.429.7420
Neubauer, T.A., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M. 2014. A new melanopsid species from the Middle Miocene Kupres Basin (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Nautilus, 128 (2), 51-54.
Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Georgopoulou, E., Mandic, O., Kroh, A. 2014. Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda. Zootaxa, 3785 (3), 453–468, doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.7
Harzhauser, M., Neubauer, T.A., Georgopoulou, E., Harl, J. 2014. The Early Miocene (Burdigalian) mollusc fauna of the North Bohemian Lake (Most Basin). Bulletin of Geosciences, 89 (4), 819-908, doi: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1503
Harzhauser, M., Neubauer, T.A., Gross, M., Binder, H. 2014. The early Middle Miocene mollusc fauna of Lake Rein (Eastern Alps, Austria). Palaeontographica A, 302, 1-71. [please conatct me for PDF]
2013
Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Kern, A.K., Piller, W.E., Neubauer, T.A., Albrecht, C., Wilke, T. 2013. Explosive demographic expansion by dreissenid bivalves as a possible result of astronomical forcing. Biogeosciences, 10, 8423-8431, doi: 10.5194/bg-10-8423-2013
2012
2011
- Morphometric analyses and applications
- Evolutionary processes in mollusks