Authors
Database design and data entry:Wolfgang Kiessling
Initiation of the project:Erik Flügel
Paleogeographic reconstructions:Jan Golonka
Web programming:Dennis König and Wenke Röper
Web design:Robby Steuding and Alexander Haas
Technical supervision:Rolf Däßler

Wolfgang Kiessling has a chair for Palaeontology at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Erlangen. During his Postdoc time he has been in Erlangen, Berlin and Chicago. He was then professor for Evolutionary Paleoecology at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (2006-2012). For more details please visit his website at the Geozentrum Nordbayern at Erlangen University.

Erik Flügel, the former head of the paleontological institute in Erlangen (Germany), started the database project.

Database design and data entry was done by Wolfgang Kiessling, the current Chair of Paleobiology in Erlangen.


Jan Golonka worked for Mobil in Dallas from 1982 to 1999 and then became professor of geology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He joined the AGH University of Science and Technology in 2006.

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