Dr. Jörg Maletz

Office: 772 Natural Sciences Complex Phone: 716.645.6800 ext 3996 Email: jorgm@buffalo.edu Website: Home Page Title: Visiting Assistant Professor Degree: PhD, Geology, TU Berlin, Germany 1992 Specialty: Paleontology and Stratigraphy   STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP

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.