Paleontologist Prof. Dr. P. Martin Sander

• Dinosaur biology and evolution and its implications for land vertebrate evolution
• Mesozoic marine reptiles: Evolution and biogeography
  • Triassic ichthyosaurs
  • Plesiosaur origins
• Large-scale patterns and adaptive trends in tetrapod evolution
  • Endothermy
  • Gigantism
  • Reproductive biology: Egg laying vs. live birth
  • Secondary aquatic adaptation
  • Mass extinction
• Fossilization: the material nature of fossils
  • Fossilization of bone
• Fossil vertebrate hard tissues:
  • Osteohistology of dinosaurs and marine reptiles
  • Tooth enamel microstructure
• History of Science
  • Origin of paleoart
  • Early history of paleontological collections