Dr. Alexandra Houssaye Steichen

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsPalaeontology,Systematics and Morphology (Zoology)
KeywordsBone (micro)anatomy, Functional Morphology, Paleoecology, Secondary adaptation to an aquatic life, Bone histology

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityParis
InstitutionMuseum National d`Histoire Naturelle (MNHN)
InstituteUMR7179
Homepagehttp://alexandra-houssaye.weebly.com/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Paul Martin SanderForschungsbereich Paläontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2011

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2014Alexandra Houssaye, Torsten M. Scheyer, Christian Kolb, Valentin Fischer, P. Martin Sander: A new look at ichthyosaur long bone microanatomy and histology: Implications for their adaptation to an aquatic life. In: Plos One , 2014, e95637
2014Alexandra Houssaye: Advances in vertebrate paleohistology: recent progresses, discoveries and new approaches. In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2014, 645-648
2014Alexandra Houssaye, Paul Tafforeau, Anthony Herrel: Amniote vertebral microanatomy - what are the major trends?. In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2014, 735-746
2014Alexandra Houssaye: Bone histology of fossil tetrapods: advancing methods, analysis, and interpretation. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2014, 1258-1258
2014Nathalie Bardet, Jocelyn Falconnet, Valentin Fischer, Alexandra Houssaye, Stéphane Jouve, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Adan Perez-Garcia, Jean-Claude Rage, Peggy Vincent: Mesozoic marine reptile palaeobiogeography in response to drifting plates. In: Gondwana Research , 2014, 869-887
2014Yasuhisa Nakajima, Alexandra Houssaye, Hideki Endo: Osteohistology of Utatsusaurus hataii (Reptilia: Ichthyopterygia): Implications for early ichthyosaur biology. In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2014, 343-352
2013Alexandra Houssaye, Nathalie Bardet: A baby mosasauroid (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Turonian of Morocco - Tethysaurus 'junior' discovered?. In: Cretaceous Research, 2013, 208-215
2013A. Houssaye, J-C. Rage, F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor, P. Huerta Hurtado, N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola: A new varanoid squamate from the Early Cretaceous of Burgos, Spain. In: Cretaceous Research, 2013, 127-135
2013A. Houssaye Bone histology of aquatic reptiles: what does it tell us about secondary adaptation to an aquatic life. In: Biological journal of the Linnean Society, 2013, 3-21
2013S. Hayashi, A. Houssaye, Y. Nakajima, K. Chiba, N. Inuzuka, H. Sawamura, T. Ando, T. Osaki & N. Kaneko: Bone histology suggests increasing aquatic adaptations in Desmostylia (Mammalia, Afrotheria). In: Plos One, 2013, e59146
2013Alexandra Houssaye, Renaud Boistel, Wolfgang Böhme, Anthony Herrel Jack of all trades master of all? Snake vertebrae have a generalist inner organization. In: Naturwissenschaften, 2013, 997-1006
2013A. Houssaye, J. Lindgren, R. Pellegrini, A.H. Lee, D. Germain & M.J. Polcyn Microanatomical and histological features in the long bones of mosasaurine mosasaurs (Reptilia, Squamata) – Implications for aquatic adaptation and growth rates. In: Plos One, 2013, e76741
2013A. Houssaye, J-C. Rage, N. Bardet, P. Vincent, M. Amaghzaz & S. Meslouh.: New highlights about the enigmatic marine snake Palaeophis maghrebianus (Palaeophiidae; Palaeophiinae) from the Ypresian Phosphates (Middle Eocene) of Morocco. In: Palaeontology, 2013, 647-661
2013P. Vincent, N. Bardet, A. Houssaye, X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Amaghzaz & S. Meslouh New plesiosaur specimens from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco: implications for niche partitioning in the latest Cretaceous marine top-predators. In: Gondwana Research, 2013, 796-805
2013A. Houssaye, N. Bardet, P. Ortega & I. Narvaez Squamate finding in 'Lo Hueco' (upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian, Cuenca Province, Spain): The second non-marine pythonomorph lizard. In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift , 2013, 415-422