Courses Offered
GLY 103 Evolution of Earth & Solar
System I: Physical Geology
GLY 104 Evolution of Earth & Solar
System II: Earth History
GLY 137 The Dinosaurs
GLY 215 Soft Rock I: Sedimentology
GLY 216 Soft Rock II: Paleontology and
Stratigraphy
UGC 303 Macroworld: Great Discoveries in Science
Research Interests
Paleozoic (Cambrian - Devonian) chrono-
and biostratigraphy, integrating sedimentological and paleontological methods
to achieve enhanced biostratigraphic reliability for geological interpretations
- Understanding the generation of oil in the Paleozozic of Scandinavia - Evolution
of the marine ecosystem in the Paleozoic: Paleoecological and paleogeographical
aspects of faunal evolution in graptolites and radiolarians - Climatic controls
on faunal evolution and diversity patterns in the marine environment - Macro-
and microevolution of the Pterobranchia and Graptolithina as an example for
modular organized colonial organisms
Recent Publications
Bates, D.
E. B., Kozlowska-Dawidziuk, A., Maletz, J., Kirk, N. H. & Lenz, A. C. 2006.
The retioitid graptolite genus Plectograptus : new observations
and new species. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51, 525-540.
Egenhoff, S. O., Weber, B., Lehnert,
O. & Maletz, J. 2007. Is the Cruziana rugosa Group biostratigraphically
relevant? A study from the Ordovician of southern and ventral Bolivia. Geological
Magazine 144 (2) 289-303.
Maletz, J. & Bruton, D. L. 2007.
Early Ordovician (Chewtonian to Castlemainian) radiolarians of Spitsbergen.
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(3), 245-288.
Egenhoff,
S. & Maletz, J. 2007. Graptolites as indicators of maximum flooding
surfaces in monotonous deep-water shelf sequences .
Palaios 22, 374-384.
Mitchell, C. E., Goldman, D., Klosterman,
S. L., Maletz, J., Sheets, H. D. & Melchin, M. J. 2007. Phylogeny of the
Diplograptoidea. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 46 (Suppl.), 332-339.
Verniers, J., Maletz, J., Kriz, J.,
Zigaite, Z., Paris, F., Schönlaub, H.-P. & Wrona, R. 2007. An overview
of the Silurian System of Central Europe. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 46 (Suppl.),
507-510.