Dr. Björn Kröger

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsPalaeontology
KeywordsPalaeobiology, Palaeoecology, Macroevolution, Carbonate sedimentology

Current contact address

CountryFinland
CityHelsinki
InstitutionUniversity of Helsinki
InstituteFinnish Museum of Natural History

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Thomas ServaisLaboratoire de Paléontologie et Paléogéographie du Paléozoique (LP3), UMR 8014, Universite de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2007

Programme(s)

2007Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2009Ed Landing, Björn Kröger: The oldest cephalopods from East Laurentia. In: Journal of Paleontology, 2009, 89-93
2008Björn Kröger: A new genus of middleTremadocian orthoceratoids and the Early Ordovician origin of orthoceratoid cephalopods.. In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2008, 745-753
2008Christian Klug, Björn Kröger, Martin Rücklin, Dieter Korn, Mena Schemm-Gregory, Kenneth De Beats & Royal H. Mapes: Ecological change during the early Emsian (Devonian) in the Tafilalt (Morocco), the origin of the Ammonoidea, and the firs African pyrgocystid edrioasteroids, machaerids and phyllocarids.. In: Palaeontographica, A, 2008, 1-94
2008Björn Kröger: Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco).. The Palaeontological Association, 2008
2008Björn Kröger, Ed Landing: Onset of the Ordovician cephalopod radiation – evidence from the Rochdale Formation (middle Lower Ordovician, Stairsian) in eastern New York.. In: Geological Magazine, 2008, 490-520