Evolutionary Morphology / Palaeobiology of Vertebrates / Cultural Macroevolution
 The research group around Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra

About us

Editor and Group Leader

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Sánchez
Universität Zürich
Paläontologisches Institut und Museum
Büro KO2 E63 e
Karl Schmid-Strasse 4
CH-8006 Zürich
Switzerland

Phone: +41 (0)44 634 23 42
Fax +41 (0)44 634 49 23

Other Lab Members

To contact other lab members visit the people page

Photographs

Photographs of cleared and stained turtles by Meinrad Schade: www.meinradschade.ch

Moving images in front page:

  1. Life reconstruction of the Urumaco Formation faunal assemblage, Venezuela, artwork by Jorge González. From: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds., 2010) Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology - The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.
  2. Life reconstruction of diverse sharks and rays in coastal lagoon-estuarine at late Miocene times in Urumaco, artwork by Jorge González. Carrillo-Briceńo JD, Maxwell E, Aguilera OA, Sánchez R, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2015) Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence, Northwestern Venezuela). PLoS ONE 10(10): e0139230
  3. Life reconstruction of the Ware Formation faunal assemblage, Cocinetas Basin, Colombia, artwork by Stjepan Lukac. From: Carrillo, Juan D., Eli Amson, Carlos Jaramillo, Rodolfo Sánchez, Luis Quiroz, Carlos Cuartas, Aldo F. Rincón, and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2018. The Neogene Record of Northern South American Native Ungulates. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, number 101.