OceanExpert ID: 2252
Juerg Rolf WEGMUELLER
Researcher
Earth Sciences
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Research
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Marine Geology
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Geophysics
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Amateur; main interest: fossil and living Chondrichthyes (sharks, skates, rays and ratfishes) of the whole world; special interest: Tertiary (Miocene) fragments (teeth, vertebrae, dermal denticles and scales) of fossil chondrichthyans in Switzerland, especially from the region between Thun and Berne (Tertiary, Miocene; Middle Burdigalian; Middle Ottnangian); collection of more than 7'000 papers dealing with fossil and living chondrichthyans (sharks, skates, rays and ratfishes); collection of chondrichthyan hard parts (fossil and living) from the whole world, from Carboniferous to actual is now housed in the Natural History Museum in Berne (Switzerland); preparing paper about the elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays) of the Belpberg Beds (Tertiary, Miocene, Middle Burdigalian, Middle Ottnangian) between Berne and Thun (Switzerland, Europe)
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Switzerland
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English
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Phones: +41 33 251 30 77 and +41 33 243 21 31; Mobile: +41 79 451 10 25
Created: 1997-06-02
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Last Updated: 2016-06-23
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