PhD
Thomas A. Neubauer

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Tierökologie und Spezielle Zoologie
Thomas.A.Neubauer@allzool.bio.uni-giessen.de
Phone: +43 1 52177-576
Fax: +43 1 52177-459

FWF project P25365-B25: "Freshwater systems in the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: Gastropod biodiversity, provinciality, and faunal gradients"

2006 - Matriculation of Biology (Paleobiology) at University of Vienna
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: 10.1111/jbi.12777

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

 

Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O. 2013. Phenotypic evolution in a venerid bivalve species lineage from the late Middle Miocene Central Paratethys Sea: a multi-approach morphometric analysis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 110 (2), 320-334, doi: 10.1111/bij.12120

  

Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Daxner-Höck, G., Piller, W.E. 2013. New data on the terrestrial gastropods from the Oligocene-Miocene transition in the Valley of Lakes, Central Mongolia. Paleontological Journal, 47 (4), 374-385, doi: 10.1123/S003103011304014X

 

Нойбауер, Т.А., Харцхаузер, M., Дакснер-Хок, Г., Пиллер, В.Э. 2013. Новые данные по наземным брюхоногим Моллюскам из пограничных Олигоцен–Миоценовых отложений Долины Озер, Центральная Монголия. Палеонтологический Журнал, 2013, 28-38, doi: 10.7868/S0031031X13040156

 

Neubauer, T.A., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M. 2013. The Middle Miocene freshwater mollusk fauna of Lake Gacko (SE Bosnia and Herzegovina): taxonomic revision and paleoenvironmental analysis. Fossil Record, 16 (1), 77-96, doi: 10.1002/mmng.201300003

 

Neubauer, T.A., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M., Hrvatovic, H. 2013. A new Miocene lacustrine mollusc fauna of the Dinaride Lake System and its palaeobiogeographic, palaeoecologic, and taxonomic implications. Palaeontology, 56 (1), 129-156, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01171.x

 

Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M. & Kroh, A. 2013 (online 2012). Phenotypic evolution in a fossil gastropod species lineage: evidence for adaptive radiation? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 370, 117-126, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.11.025

 

2012
 

Harzhauser, M., Neubauer, T.A., Mandic, O., Zuschin, M., Ćorić, S. 2012 (online 2011). A Middle Miocene freshwater mollusc assemblage from an intramontane Alpine lake (Aflenz Basin, Eastern Alps, Austria). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 86 (1), 23-41, doi: 10.1007/s12542-011-0117-x

 

Neubauer, T.A., Schneider, S., Böhme, M., Prieto, J. 2012. First records of freshwater rissooidean gastropods from the Palaeogene of Southeast Asia. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78 (3), 278-282, doi: 10.1093/mollus/eys011

 

2011
 

Neubauer, T.A., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M. 2011. Middle Miocene freshwater mollusks from Lake Sinj (Dinaride Lake System, SE Croatia; Langhian). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 140 (2), 201-237.

-  Cenozoic non-marine gastropods: paleobiogeography, biodiversity, paleoecology, taxonomy, nomenclature, systematics
-  Morphometric analyses and applications
-  Evolutionary processes in mollusks

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