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M.Sc. Raphael Moreno

Raphael Moreno

PhD student

Paleontology

Contact

Tel.:
+49 (0) 711 / 8936-170
Fax:
+49 (0) 711 / 8936-100
E-Mail:
raphael.moreno(at)smns-bw.de

Research Interest

The goal of my PhD is to better document changes of the Upper Triassic tetrapod faunas of Southern Germany and to determine their putative controlling factors.

Currently I use Ecological Niche Modeling to better understand the connections between changing climates and the occurrence of different aquatic tetrapod taxa across the Upper Triassic Keuper.

Researchgate

Publications

in press.

  • 4. Schoch, R. R., Witzmann, F., Moreno, R., Werneburg, R., Mujal, E. (in press): Growing giants: ontogeny and life history of the temnospondyl Mastodonsaurus giganteus from the Middle Triassic of Germany. Fossil Record.
  • 3. Moreno, R., Chakravorti, S., Cooper, S. L. A., Schoch, R. R. (in press): Unexpected temnospondyl diversity in the early Carnian Grabfeld Formation (Germany) and the palaeogeography of metoposaurids. Fossil Record.

2024

  • 2. Moreno, R., Dunne, E.M., Mujal, E., Farnsworth, A., Valdes, P. J., Schoch, R. R. (2024): Impact of environmental barriers on temnospondyl biogeography and dispersal during the Middle–Late Triassic. Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12724
  • 1. Schoch, R. R. & Moreno, R. (2024): Synopsis on the temnospondyls from the German Triassic. – Palaeodiversity, 17 (1): 9–48. https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v17.a2

Conference contributions

  • 4. Moreno, R., Schoch, R. R., Vonhof, H. B., Wudarska, A., Mujal, E., Tütken, T. (2024): Preliminary multi-isotope analysis of Mastodonsaurus teeth and associated faunas from the Middle Triassic of Germany, Joint Meeting of the Polish Paleobiologists and the 95th Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, 19.09.2024, Warsaw.
  • 3. Mujal, E., Moreno, R., Schoch, R. R. (2023): The Lower Keuper (Erfurt Formation, Middle Triassic) fossillagerstätten from SW Germany: flourishing tetrapod ecosystems, 150th PGLA (BGR) Anniversary and 175th DGGV Anniversary, GeoBerlin, 05.09.2023, Berlin, doi: 10.48380/y0gg-z909.
  • 2. Moreno R. & Schwarz, D., LeBlanc, A., Mujal, E., Witzmann, F., Schoch, R. R. (2023): Straightening the folds: Tooth formation and replacement as a proxy for inferring the paleoecology of Mastodonsaurus giganteus, 48. Treffen des Arbeitskreises Wirbeltierpaläontologie, 18.03.2023, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.
  • 1. Moreno, R. & Schoch R. R.  (2022): Using species distribution modelling to track the distribution of European temnospondyls during the early Late Triassic Gipskeuper. – in: Schweigert, G. (eds.) (2022): 93. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft Abstract Volume, Stuttgart, Germany.

Curriculum Vitae

since 11/2023

  • scientific project worker for the GSA "Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles"

since 2021

  • Freelancer for the museum education service of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart

since 2020

  • PhD student at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Paleontology department in cooperation with the University of Hohenheim. Title of dissertation: Climate change and diversity of Upper Triassic tetrapod faunas of Southern Germany

2020-2021

  • Metadata registration at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Zoology department (Malacology)

2018-2020

  • Scientific trainee at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Communication department

2014-2017

  • Master of Science in Geosciences at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg

2011-2014

  • Bachelor of Science in Geosciences at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg

Field Research

2022-2024

  • Trossingen, Germany (Upper Triassic)

2021-2022

  • Vellberg-Eschenau, Germany (Upper Triassic)

2015

  • Coahuila, Mexico (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian)

2014

  • Newfoundland, Canada (Ediacarian-Cambrian)

Scholarships

  • Doctoral scholarship within Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz (LGFG) Baden-Württemberg since November 2020