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Christian Klug
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
980 Points

Contributions by role

Author 840
Reviewer 140

Contributions by subject area

Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Zoology
Developmental Biology
Marine Biology
Taxonomy
Histology
Biodiversity

Christian Klug

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

1991 to 1998 Geology in Tübingen
1998 MSc in Palaeontology
2001 PhD in Palaeontology on Devonian ammonoids from Morocco (Tübingen)
2002 internship at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart
2003 until today at the Paläontologisches Institut und Museum in Zürich
Since 2015 curator at the same museum

Evolutionary Studies Paleontology

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Zürich

Work details

Curator

University of Zürich
Palaeontologisches Institut und Museum

Identities

@ChristianKlug9

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 9
  • Reviewed 4
June 3, 2025
A new origin of the ‘modern’ lungfish dentition revealed by taxonomic overlap between Devonian and Carboniferous dipnoans
Amin El Fassi El Fehri, Alice M. Clement, Jorge Mondéjar Fernández, Merle Greif, Christian Klug
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19389 PubMed 40487057
February 29, 2024
Plectronoceratids (Cephalopoda) from the latest Cambrian at Black Mountain, Queensland, reveal complex three-dimensional siphuncle morphology, with major taxonomic implications
Alexander Pohle, Peter Jell, Christian Klug
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17003 PubMed 38436030
December 21, 2022
A new Meckel’s cartilage from the Devonian Hangenberg black shale in Morocco and its position in chondrichthyan jaw morphospace
Merle Greif, Humberto G. Ferrón, Christian Klug
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14418 PubMed 36573235
April 7, 2022
Historical significance and taxonomic status of Ischyrodon meriani (Pliosauridae) from the Middle Jurassic of Switzerland
Daniel Madzia, Sven Sachs, Christian Klug
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13244 PubMed 35415018
January 14, 2021
Taphonomic patterns mimic biologic structures: diagenetic Liesegang rings in Mesozoic coleoids and coprolites
Christian Klug, Gianpaolo Di Silvestro, Rene Hoffmann, Guenter Schweigert, Dirk Fuchs, Thomas Clements, Pierre Gueriau
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10703 PubMed 33520466
March 26, 2020
How many ontogenetic points are needed to accurately describe the ontogeny of a cephalopod conch? A case study of the modern nautilid Nautilus pompilius
Amane Tajika, Christian Klug
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8849 PubMed 32257649
May 31, 2018
Assessing canalisation of intraspecific variation on a macroevolutionary scale: the case of crinoid arms through the Phanerozoic
Catalina Pimiento, Kit Lam Tang, Samuel Zamora, Christian Klug, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4899 PubMed 29868289
January 9, 2018
The old and the new plankton: ecological replacement of associations of mollusc plankton and giant filter feeders after the Cretaceous?
Amane Tajika, Alexander Nützel, Christian Klug
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4219 PubMed 29333344
October 6, 2015
Intraspecific variation of phragmocone chamber volumes throughout ontogeny in the modern nautilid Nautilus and the Jurassic ammonite Normannites
Amane Tajika, Naoki Morimoto, Ryoji Wani, Carole Naglik, Christian Klug
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1306 PubMed 26500816

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February 26, 2024
The first gladius-bearing coleoid cephalopods from the lower Toarcian “Schistes Cartons” Formation of the Causses Basin (southeastern France)
Romain Jattiot, Nathalie Coquel-Poussy, Isabelle Kruta, Isabelle Rouget, Alison J. Rowe, Jean-David Moreau
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16894 PubMed 38426149
March 2, 2021
Ontogeny of highly variable ceratitid ammonoids from the Anisian (Middle Triassic)
Eva Alexandra Bischof, Nils Schlüter, Dieter Korn, Jens Lehmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10931 PubMed 33717689
November 28, 2017
Geological duration of ammonoids controlled their geographical range of fossil distribution
Ryoji Wani
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4108 PubMed 29201572
December 7, 2015
Palaeogeographic implications of a new iocrinid crinoid (Disparida) from the Ordovician (Darriwillian) of Morocco
Samuel Zamora, Imran A. Rahman, William I. Ausich
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1450 PubMed 26664800