Biostratigraphy and Palaeoecology
PD Dr. Christina Ifrim
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Institut für Geowissenschaften |
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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
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Im Neuenheimer Feld 234 / Room 217 |
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D-69120 Heidelberg |
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Organization of the 23rd Latin American Colloquium March, 25-27 2014 in Heidelberg
Areas of Expertise
Faunal dynamics in Upper Cretaceous ammonites
Ecological constraints of ammonite populations
Interactions between fossil organisms
Upper Cretaceous biostratigraphy
Sedimentology, genesis and palaeoenvironment of Platy Limestones and other Fossil Lagerstätten
Palaeobiogeography of ammonites and inoceramids
Teaching
Erdgeschichte (Bachelor)
Methoden der Stratigraphie (Bachelor)
Konzepte und Methoden der Sedimentgeologie (Bachelor)
Labormethoden in den Geowissenschaften: Paläontologie (Bachelor)
Diagenese (Master)
Spezielle Paläontologie (Master)
Research Projects
On the Inside of Travelers: Morphology of Early Juvenile Ammonites And Their Implications for Faunal Dynamics in the Late Cretaceous [Förderung durch DFG (IF61/4-1)
Dynamiken in Ammonitenfaunen der Oberkreide" [Förderung durch die Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg]
Paläobiologie von Pseudaspidoceras flexuosum (Turonium, Oberkreide), in Coahuila, Nordost-Mexiko [Förderung durch DFG (IF61/2-1)]
Paläoökologie und Stratigraphie der Plattenkalke von Muzquiz (Turonium-Santonium, Oberkreide), in Coahuila, Nordost-Mexiko [Förderung durch DFG (FR1314/10-1)]
Fossillagerstätte Vallecillo (Plattenkalke des Turonium, Oberkreide) (DFG (STI128/9-1 bis -3), DAAD (D/01/27442))
Plattenkalke und Mollusken der Fossillagerstätte Muzquiz (Turonium-Coniacium, Oberkreide), in Coahuila, Nordost-Mexiko [Förderung durch Volkswagen-Stiftung (I/78866)]
Bachelor and Master theses
Possible subjects:
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology in the Upper Cretaceous of North-eastern Mexico
Biostratigraphy
Biometry in fossil organisms
Quantitative Interpretation of Bioevents
Stomach contents of ammonites in Plattenkalke
...and and and. Come along!
Choice of Publications
IFRIM, C. 2015. Fluctuations of the oxygen minimum zone at the end of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 in the Gulf of Mexico and the response of ammonites Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 1-9, DOI 10.1007/s13358-015-0089-7.
IFRIM, C. (ed) 2015. Proceedings of the 23rd Latin American Colloquium in Earth Sciences, Heidelberg 2014. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 277, 175-200
IFRIM, C., STINNESBECK, W., ESPINOSA, B. and VENTURA, J. F. 2015. Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Cephalopods from the Parras Shale near Saucedas, Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2015.07.013.
IFRIM, C., LEHMANN, J. and WARD, P. D. 2015. Paleobiogeography of the Late Cretaceous Ammonoids. 259-274. In KLUG, C., KORN, D., DE BAETS, K., KRUTA, I. and MAPES, R. H. (eds). Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology, and from macroevolution to paleogeography. Topics in Geobiology, Springer, Heidelberg.
AHMAD, F., IFRIM, C. and FAROUK, S. 2015. The last ammonoids of Jordan – implications from the Outhriate section. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen,
LEHMANN, J., IFRIM, C., BULOT, L. and FRAU, C. 2015. Paleobiogeography of Early Cretaceous Ammonoids. 229-257. In KLUG, C., KORN, D., DE BAETS, K., KRUTA, I. and MAPES, R. H. (eds). Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography. Topics in Geobiology, Springer, Heidelberg.
IFRIM, C., WIESE, F. and STINNESBECK, W. 2014. Inoceramids and biozonation of the El Rosario section, Coahuila, north-eastern Mexico, a potential Global Stratotype Section and Point for the Turonian-Coniacian boundary in the Upper Cretaceous. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 47, 211-246.
IFRIM, C. 2013. Paleobiology and paleoecology of the early Turonian (Late Cretaceous) ammonite Pseudaspidoceras flexuosum. Palaios, 28, 9-22.
Ifrim, C., Götz, S. and Stinnesbeck, W. 2011. Fluctuations of the oxygen minimum zone at the end of OAE 2 reflected by benthic and planktic fossils. Geology, 39, 1043-1046.
Ifrim, C., Vega-Vera, F. J. and Stinnesbeck, W. 2011. Epizoic Stramentid Cirripedes on Ammonites from Late Cretaceous Platy Limestones in Mexico. Journal of Paleontology, 85, 524-536.
Ifrim, C. and Stinnesbeck, W. 2010. Migration pathways of the late Campanian and Maastrichtian shallow facies ammonite Sphenodiscus in North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 292, 96-102.
Ifrim, C., Stinnesbeck, W., Rodríguez Garza, R. and Ventura, J. F. 2010. Hemipelagic cephalopods from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) Parras Basin at La Parra, Coahuila, Mexico, and their implications for the correlation of the lower Difunta Group. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 29, 597–618.
Ifrim, C. and Stinnesbeck, W. 2008. Cenomanian-Turonian high-resolution biostratigraphy of north-eastern Mexico and its correlation with the GSSP and Europe. Cretaceous Research, 29, 943-956.
