Publications

1) Schoch, R.R. & Witzmann, F. The evolution of larvae in temnospondyls and the stepwise origin of amphibian metamorphosis. Published: 10 April 2024 (Biological Reviews, Vol. 99, Issue 5, October 2024) DOI: 10.1111/brv.13084

2) Klein, N., Konietzko-Meier, D., Kalita, S. et al. (2024) Unique bone histology of modern giant salamanders: a study on humeri and femora of Andrias spp. Published: 18 October 2024 (Zoological Letters 10:18) DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00240-1

3) Schoch, R.R., Witzmann, F., Moreno, R., Werneburg, R. & Mujal, E. (2024). Growing giants: ontogeny and life history of the temnospondyl Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Stereospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Germany.Fossil Record, 27(3), 401–422.Published: December 2024, DOI:10.3897/fr.27.125379

4) Mujal, E., Sues, H.-D., Moreno, R., Schaeffer, J., Sobral, G., Chakravorti, S., Spiekman, S.N.F. & Schoch, R.R. (2025). Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments.Earth-Science Reviews, 264, 105085. Published:4 March 2025 (online; Volume 264, May 2025) DOI:10.1016/j. earscirev. 2025.105085.

5) Moreno, R., Cooper, S.L.A., Chakravorti, S. & Schoch, R.R. (2024). Unexpected temnospondyl diversity in the early Carnian Grabfeld Formation (Germany) and the palaeogeography of metoposaurids.Fossil Record, 27(3), 381–400.Published:30 December 2024, DOI:10.3897/fr.27.121996

6) Moreno, R., Dunne, E.M., Mujal, E., Farnsworth, A., Valdes, P.J. & Schoch, R.R. (2024). Impact of environmental barriers on temnospondyl biogeography and dispersal during the Middle–Late Triassic. Palaeontology, 67(5), e12724. Published: 4 September 2024 (first online) DOI: 10.1111/pala.12724.

7) Konietzko-Meier, D., Prino, A. & Teschner, E.M. (2025). Hips do not lie… histology of the pelvic girdle elements of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Poland.Fossil Record, 28(1), 165–178.Published:3 June 2025, DOI:10.3897/fr.28.e153929 (also cited as 10.3897/fr.28.153929 by some databases)

8) Schoch, R.R., Witzmann, F., Werneburg, I., Werneburg, R., Mujal, E. & Moreno, R. (2025). The morphology and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl genus Cyclotosaurus with a focus on material from Germany.PalZ, 99(3), 319–337. Published:12 June 2025 (online; September 2025 issue), DOI:10.1007/s12542-025-00729-w.

9) Schoch, R.R. (2025). Morphological disparity, stratigraphic distribution and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl Sclerocephalus from the Late Palaeozoic of Germany.Palaeodiversity, 18(1), 151–196. Published:19 September 2025 (Volume 18, Issue 1), DOI: 10.18476/pale.v18.a7.

10) Schoch, R.R., Gastou, S., Steyer, J.-S., Mujal, E., Moreno, R. & Witzmann, F. (2025). Morphology and ontogeny of the plagiosaurid temnospondyl Plagiosternum granulosum from the Middle Triassic of Germany.PalZ. Published:7 December 2025 (online first), DOI:10.1007/s12542-025-00748-7.

11) Cejp, B. & Griebeler, E.M. (2025). Disentangling the interrelations of body mass, egg deposition site, climate and microhabitat use in frogs and salamanders.Ecography, 2025 (11), e08109. Published: October 2025 (accepted 9 August 2025), DOI:10.1002/ecog.08109.

12) Witzmann, F. & Schoch, R.R.Postcranial morphology and ontogeny of the Middle Triassic plagiosaurid temnospondyl Gerrothorax pulcherrimus and the increased body-flattening of bottom-dwelling plagiosaurs.Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 206(1), 2026.Online-Publikationsdatum: 8. Januar 2026. DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf195.