Paleoprize-winners
2006 | Alain Morad, Berne: “Covariation patterns in ammonoids : observations, models, and open questions”. |
2007 | Daniel Marty, Bâle: “Comparative taphonomy of human footprints left in microbial mats of tidal flats and dinosaur footprints of Late Jurassic biolaminites; a key for the interpretation of fossil vertebrate tracks”. |
2008 | Nicolas Goudemand, Zurich: “Smithian-Spathian boundary: the biggest crisis in Triassic conodont history”. |
2009 | Nicolas Goudemand, Zurich: “Paleobiology of Early Triassic conodonts: implications of newly discovered fused clusters imaged by X-ray synchrotron microtomography”. |
2010 | Jérôme Chablais, Genève: Upper Triassic reef biota from southwestern Japan: new data from a Panthalassan seamount”. |
2011 | Madeleine Geiger, Zurich: “Giant rodents from the northern Neotropics - taxonomic, phylogenetic and developmental aspects of their evolution within the caviomorph radiation”. |
2012 | Yannick Mary, Bâle: “Micro-dissection reveals inner structure and ontogenetic growth of Pliocene menardellids (planktonic foraminifera)”. |
2013 | James Neenan, Zurich: “Unique method of tooth replacement in Placodontia (Diapsida, Sauropterygia), with new data on the dentition of Chinese taxa”. |
2014 | Lea Leuzinger, Fribourg: “Taxonomy and biogeochemistry of a new chondrichthyan fauna from the Swiss Jura (Kimmeridgian): an unusual isotopic signature for the hybodont shark Asteracanthus”. |
2015 | Amane Tajika, Zurich: “Intraspecific variation of volumetric growth trajectories in nautilids and ammonites”. |
2016 | Bastien Mennecart, Bâle: „How does bony labyrinth morphology help resolve the phylogeny and diversification timing of deer?” |
2017 | Kristof Veitschegger: Reconstructing life history from the fossil record – the case of Pleistocene cave bears |
2018 | Manuel F.G. Weinkauf: Morphological disparity and ontogeny of the endemic heteromorph ammonite genus Aegocrioceras |
2019 | Stephan Spiekman: Synchrotron microtomography and bone histology of Tanystropheus reveal its cranial morphology and the identification of a separate, small-sized species |
2020 | Eva C. Herbst: Was the early tetrapod Eryops capable of a salamander-like walk? Developing new methods to test paleontological hypotheses about posture and gait |
2021 | Serjoscha W. Evers: Ecomorphology and evolution of the vestibular organ of turtles |
2022 | Alexander Pohle: Fossil cephalopod phylogenetics: recent advances, remaining challenges and future perspectives |
2023 | Lorenzo Lustri: Ontogenie von Pfeilschwanzkrebsen aus dem früheren Ordovizium und Urpsrung der Cheliceraten & Gregor Mathes: Rolle der Temperatur für die Aussterbeereignisse bei Neosalachiern |
The Paleoprize is awarded every year at the Swiss Geoscience Meeting.