Thomas Tütken

Summary

I am palaeontologist at the University of Mainz in Germany. My expertise is isotope geochemistry. I develop and apply geochemical methods on fossil bones and teeth to reconstruct the biology, diet and ecology of extinct vertebrates as well as their fossilisation processes. Combining traditional and non-traditional isotope as well as dental wear analyses on teeth, me and my team develop a toolbox for diet and food web reconstruction in palaeontology and archaeology. After validating isotope and dental wear proxies on tissue samples from controlled feeding experimnent we currently assess the diet of mammal-like reptiles and dinosaurs to determine the evolution of plant-feeding among land vertebrates.

Paleontology