Simon Schneider
Research geologist / Curator
Contact: [email protected]
Simon Schneider received a PhD in palaeontology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany, in 2010, which was followed by post-doc positions at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria, and the GeoZentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen, Germany. In April 2013, Simon joined CASP, where his research centres on biostratigraphy, taphonomy and palaeoecology, and on the integration of palaeontological data with those from other geoscientific disciplines. Since 2021, he also is the curator of CASP’s Geological Collections.
Simon’s principal research focuses on the taxonomy, systematics and evolution of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Bivalvia, and the palaeoecology of benthic communities. He has fieldwork experience in numerous countries, from the High Arctic to the Tropics, and has conducted research in the Canadian Arctic, Portugal, Senegambia, Cabo Verde and southern China on behalf of CASP. He has published on fossils ranging from Early Jurassic to Pleistocene in age.
Simon is a taxonomic editor of MolluscaBase, which is an online database aiming to provide an authoritative, permanently updated account of all molluscan species, fossil and extant. He also is an associate editor of Journal of Paleontology, Palaeontology/Papers in Palaeontology and PalZ.
Latest Publications
- The late Kimmeridgian bivalve fauna of Saal an der Donau (Bavaria, southern Germany): the Hippuritida
- Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from East and North-East Greenland
- Identifying the big questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
- Early Cretaceous freshwater bivalves from northeastern Brazil: insights into the evolutionary history of South American freshwater mussels