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  • (20) Hofmann. R., and Kehl, J. P. (in press): Diversity patterns and palaeoecology of benthic communities of the Kanosh Formation (Pogonip Group, Utah, western USA). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
  • (19)  Foster, W.J., Gliwa, J., Lembke, C., Pugh, A., Hofmann, R., Tietje, M., Varela, S., Foster, L.C., Korn, D, and Aberhan, M. (2020): Primary productivity, deoxygenation, and the Gulliver-absence effect determine bivalve body size during the Early Triassic. Global and Planetary Change. 185. Link.
  • (18) Hofmann, R, Gutwasser, B., Korn, D., and Hüneke, H. (2020): Firm evidence for a post-extinction ichnofauna: An earliest Carboniferous Cruziana reticulata assemblage from the Anti-Atlas of Morocco.  Lethaia. 53, 118-128. Link
  • (17) Hofmann, R., Tietje, M., Aberhan, M. (2019): Diversity partitioning in Phanerozoic benthic marine communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(1), 79-83. Link
  • (16) Hofmann, R. (2017): Trace fossils of the Werfen Formation. GeoAlp. 14, 19-31 Link
  • (15) Argyriou, T., Romano, Carrillo-Briceño, J. D., Brosse, M., and Hofmann, R. (2017): The oldest record of gnathostome fossils from Greece: Chondrichthyes from the Lopingian of Hydra Island. Palaeontologica Electronica Link
  • (14) Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., and Bucher, H. (2017): Diversity partitioning in Permian and Early Triassic benthic ecosystems of the Western USA: A comparison. Historical Biology. 29(7), 918-930. Link
  • (13) Hofmann, R. (2016): The end-Permian mass extinction. In Mángano, M. G. and Buatois, L. A.: The trace-fossil record of major evolutionary events. Topics in Geobiology, Springer, 325-349. Link
  • (12) Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., M., Bucher H. (2015): Recovery dynamics of benthic marine communities from the Lower Triassic Werfen Formation (northern Italy). Lethaia. 48(4), 474-496. Link
  • (11) Hautmann, R., Bagherpour, B., Brosse, M., Frisk, Å.M., Hofmann, R., Baud, A., Nützel, A., Goudemand, N., Bucher, H. (2015): Competition in slow motion: The unusual case of benthic marine communities in the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeontology. 58(5), 871-901. Link
  • (10) Hofmann, R., Buatois, L. A., MacNaughton R. B., Mángano, M. G. (2015): Loss of the sedimentary mixed layer as a result of the end-Permian extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 428, 1-11. Link
  • (09) Vennin, E., Olivier, N., Brayard, A., Bour, I., Thomazo, C., Escarguel, G., Fara, E., Bylund, K.G., Jenks, J.F., Stephen, D.A., and Hofmann, R. (2015): Microbial deposits in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction: a diverging case from Mineral Mountains (Utah, USA). Sedimentology. 62(3), 753-792. Link
  • (08) Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., Brayard, A., Nützel, A., Bylund, K.G., Jenks, J., Vennin, E., Olivier, N., Bucher, H. (2014): Recovery of benthic marine communities from the end-Permian mass extinction at the low-latitudes of Eastern Panthalassa. Palaeontology. 57(3), 547-589. Link
  • (07) Frey, L., Naglik, C., Hofmann, R., Schemm-Gregory, M., Frýda, J., Kröger, B., Taylor, P. D., Wilson, M. A., and Klug, C. (2014): Diversity and palaeoecology of Early Devonian invertebrate associations in the Tafilalt (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Bulletin of Geosciences. 89(1), 75-112. Link
  • (06) Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., Bucher, H. (2013): A new paleoecological look at the Dinwoody Formation (Lower Triassic, western U.S.): intrinsic versus extrinsic controls on ecosystem recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction. Journal of Paleontology. 87 (5), 854-880. Link
  • (05) Mángano, M. G., Buatois, L.A., Hofmann, R., Elicki, O., Shinaq, R. (2013): Exploring the aftermath of the Cambrian explosion: The evolutionary significance of marginal- to shallow-marine ichnofaunas of Jordan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 374(1), 1-15. Link
  • (04) Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., Wasmer, M. and Bucher H. (2013): Palaeoecology of the Virgin Formation (Utah, USA) and its implications for the Early Triassic recovery. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58(1), 149-173. Link
  • (03) Hofmann, R., Mángano, M. G., Elicki, O. and Shinaq, R. (2012): Paleoecologic and biostratigraphic significance of trace fossils from shallow- to marginal-marine environments from the Middle Cambrian (Stage 5) of Jordan. Journal of Paleontology. 86(6), 931-955. Link
  • (02) Brayard, A., Vennin, E., Olivier, N., Escarguel, G., Bylund, K.G., Jenks, J., Stephen, D.A., Hofmann, R., Goudemand, N., Bucher, H (2011): Transient metazoan reefs in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Nature Geosciences 4 (10), 693-697.  Link
  • (01) Hofmann, R., Goudemand, N., Wasmer, M., Bucher, H., Hautmann, M. (2011): New trace fossil evidence for an early recovery signal in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 310, 216-226.  Link


Abstracts
  • Hofmann, R.,Tietje, M., Aberhan, M. (2018): Diversity Partitioning in benthic marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic. GeoBonn 2018
  • Hofmann, R., Kehl, J.P. (2018): Diversity patterns and palaeooecology of the Pogonip Group (western US). 3rd Annual Meeting of the IGCP 653, Athens, Ohio.
  • Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., Bucher, H. (2016): Patterns in alpha and beta diversity before and after the end-Permian mass extinction. Abstract volume 87th Annual Conference of the “Paläontologische Gesellschaft”, Senckenberg, Dresden.
  • Hofmann, R., Buatois, L. A., MacNaughton R. B., Mángano, M. G. (2016): The collapse of biogenic sediment mixing after the end-Permian mass extinction. Abstract volume 87th Annual Conference of the “Paläontologische Gesellschaft”, Senckenberg, Dresden.
  • Hofmann, R., Hautmann, Schneebeli-Hermann, E., Bucher, H. (2013): Evidence for an intra-Early Triassic crisis of benthic ecosystems. Abstract Volume 57th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, University of Zurich.
  • Hautmann, M., Hofmann, R., Frisk, A. M., Brosse, M., Bucher, H. (2013): Diversification and diversity partitioning in Early Triassic benthic ecosystems. Abstract Volume 57th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, University of Zurich.
  • Frey, L., Schemm-Gregory, M., Frýda, J., Kröger, B., Taylor, P. D., Wilson, M. A., Klug, C. (2013): Diversity and palaeoecology of Early Devonian invertebrate associations in the Tafilalt (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Abstract Volume 57th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, University of Zurich.
  • Hofmann, R. (2013): The curious case of the Early Triassic. A Joint conference of "Paläontologische Gesellschaft" and the "Palaeontological Society of China", Göttingen, Germany, September 23-27, 2013. Tilly Edinger Symposium.
  • Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., Bucher, H. (2012): "…and they all lived happily ever after": Palaeoecology of benthic faunas in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Terra Nostra 2012/3, p. 81. 100. Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. Berlin.
  • Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., Bucher, H. (2012): No rules or just many exceptions? Spatial and temporal trends in benthic recovery from low-latitude settings. IGCP 572 closing conference, Eger Hungary.
  • Hofmann, R., Hautmann, R., Bucher, H., McGowan, A.J., and Smith, A.B. (2011): Palaeoecology and taxonomic composition of the Spathian Virgin Limestone Fauna: implications for the benthic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction event. Palass Annual Meeting 2011, Plymouth UK. Link
  • Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M. & Bucher, H. (2011): Ecological structure and taxa distribution in near shore habitats of the Virgin Formation (south-western Utah): Implications for the Early Triassic recovery. 9th Swiss Geoscience Meeting Zürich 2011. Link
  • Elicki, O., Altumi, M.M., Leuschke, A., Farouk, S. & Hofmann, R. (2010): Cambrian trace fossils from the north-eastern Africa - Middle East segment of Perigondwana. Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Germany, Munich, October, 5-8, 2010. Zitteliana, series B, 29: 31-32.
  • Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., Goudemand, N., Wasmer, M. & Bucher, H.: Dynamic recovery patterns of benthic ecosystems in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. IPC 3, London 2010.
  • Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M., Goudemand, N., Wasmer, M., & Bucher, H., (2010). Complex colonisation patterns of benthic communities in the immediate aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction: New data from the Dolomites. In: Baud, A. and Bernecker, M. (eds): IGCP 572: Recovery of ecosystems after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Field workshop at GUtech, Muscat, Oman February 20-26, 2010, abstract book. Link
  • Hofmann, R. & Hautmann, M. (2009): Recovery of benthic marine communities after the end-Permian mass extinction: New data from the Werfen Formation (South Tirol/Italy). - Terra Nostra 2009/3: 52.
  • Hofmann, R., Mángano, M.G. & Elicki, O., (2008): Multiple behaviours in under-utilised ecospace; insights from a Cambrian marginal marine system. 78. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Erlangen 8.-10.09.2008, abstracts.
  • Elicki, O., Hofmann, R., Gürsu, S. & Altumi, M.M. (2008): New data on the Cambrian of the Near and Middle East and northeastern Africa. XIII. Intern. Conf. of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, Yakutsk, 20.7.-1.8.2008, abstract volume: 18-19.
  • Hofmann, R., Mángano, M.G., Elicki, O. & Shinaq, R., (2008): Ichnology of a middle Cambrian tide-dominated delta, Burj Formation, Southern Dead Sea, Jordan. Ichnia 2008, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
  • Hofmann, R., Mángano, M.G., Elicki, O. & Shinaq, R., (2007): Early Palaeozoic ichnofaunas - a case study from the Cambrian of Jordan, In: Elicki, O. & Schneider, J.W. (Hrsg.), Fossile Ökosysteme. 77. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Freiberg 17.-19.09.2007, Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen des Institutes für Geologie, 36: 28-30, abstracts.
  • Elicki, O., Hofmann, R., Mángano, G. & Shinaq, R. (2007): Funde, Abformung und Reproduktion großflächiger Cruziana-Assoziationen aus dem Kambrium Jordaniens: technischer Rapport. Fossile Ökosysteme. 77. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Freiberg 17.-19.09.2007, Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen des Institutes für Geologie, 36: 28-30, abstracts.
  • Hofmann, R., Mángano, G.M., Elicki, O. & Shinaq, R. (2007): Paleoecologic and paleoenvironmental controls of trace fossils from a Lower to Middle Cambrian tide-dominated delta, Hanneh Member, Burj Formation, Southern Death Sea, Jordan. In: MacEchern, J.A., Gingras, M.K., Bann, K.L. & Pemberton, S.G. Ichnological applications to sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic problems. SEPM Research Conference, Price, Utah, USA, May 20-26. abstract volume: 101.
  • Elicki, O., Shinaq, R., Hofmann, R., Mangano, G. & Gürsü, S. (2006): Palecological aspects of land-sea transition areas in the Cambrian of the Middle East (Mediterranean). 21ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre (Joint Earth Sciences Meeting), session S1 \"Primitive life, ancient radiations\", Dijon/France, Dec., 4-9, 2006, abstracts: 31.
  • Mángano, G.M., Hofmann, R., Elicki, O. & Shinaq, R. (2006): Ichnology of a Lower to Middle Cambrian tide-dominated delta, Burj Fm., southern Dead Sea, Jordan: ecospace utilization in early paleozoic marginal-marine environments. 16th Canadian Palaeontological Conference, Montreal, QC/Canada, abstracts.