Adolf Seilacher

Adolf Seilacher, also Dolf Seilacher, ( born February 24, 1925) is a German paleontologist.

Life

Adolf Seilacher, who has collected fossils as a teenager and also published, in 1951 his doctorate under Otto Heinrich Schindewolf at the University of Tübingen ( for the classification and interpretation of fossil traces of life ). His habilitation was on calcareous sponges ( Sphinctozoa ). After stops in Frankfurt, Baghdad and Göttingen, he was in 1964 as a successor of Schindewolf professor of paleontology in Tübingen.

Since 1987, he has spent over 20 years in addition Adjunct Professor at Yale University.

Research priorities

Seilacher is considered one of the most prolific and innovative paleontologists worldwide. He provided significant contributions to Palichnologie ( trace fossil customer), an area in which he set the standard since the 1960s. Further impetus he gave on the subject of fossil sites, natural structures ( construction morphology ) and the interpretation of Precambrian organisms ( Vendobionten ).

Honors and Awards

Adolf Seilacher 1992 awarded the Crafoord Prize. In 1993 he received the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Wuerttemberg. In 1994 he was awarded by the Geological Association of the Gustav- Steinmann Medal and in 2006 he received the Lapworth Medal. In 1995 he was made an honorary member of the Paleontological Society, which he was president from 1977 to 1979. He was since 1964 editor of the Zentralblatt of Geology and Palaeontology ( Department of Palaeontology ) and since 1969 the New Yearbook of Geology and Palaeontology.

Writings

• Trace fossil analysis. Springer, Berlin and others 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-47225-4.