Publikationen

2023

• De Francesco Magnussen, I., Müller, S., Hammel, J.U., Kotthoff, U., Harms, D. (2022): Diversity of schizomids (Arachnida: Schizomida) revealed by new fossil genera and species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with implications for a Gondwanan origin of the Burma Terrane. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196, Issue 2, Pages 792–844.
• Kotthoff, U. (2022): Jahresrückblick – Museum der Natur Hamburg: Geologie-Paläontologie. Bernstein Magazin Ausgabe 2022, Editor: Verein zur Förderung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Museums der Universität Hamburg e.V. „Arbeitskreis Bernstein“, Thelkow. S. 12-13.
• Koutsodendris, A., Dakos, V., Fletcher, W.J. et al., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Pross, J. (2023): Atmospheric CO2 forcing on Mediterranean biomes during the past 500 kyrs. Nature Communications 14, 1664. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37388-x
• Johnson, J., Loria, S.F., Kotthoff, U., Hammel, J.U., Josephs, M.M. Harms, D. (2023): First record of the pseudoscorpion tribe Tyrannochthoniini Chamberlin, 1962 from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of northern Myanmar (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae: Chthoniinae). Cretaceous Research.

2022

• Szabó, M., Hammel, J.U., Harms, D., Kotthoff, U., Bodor, E., Novák, J., Ösi, A. (2022): First record of the spider family Hersiliidae (Araneae) from the Mesozoic of Europe. Cretaceous Research 131, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105097

2021

• Geisler, C., Kotthoff, U., Hammel, J., Harvey, M.S., Harms, D. (2021): The first fossil of the pseudoscorpion family Ideoroncidae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones): a new taxon from the mid-Cretaceous of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105030.
• Schwarze, D., Harms, D., Hammel, J.U., Kotthoff, U. (2021): The first fossils of the most basal pseudoscorpion family (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudotyrannochthoniidae): evidence for major biogeographical shifts in the European paleofauna. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-021-00565-8.

2020

• Wriedt, A.L., Harvey, M.S., Hammel, J.U., Kotthoff, U., Harms, D. (2020): The second chthonioid pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: a new genus with unique morphological features and potential Gondwanan affinities. Journal of Arachnology 48, 311-321, https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-20-017.
• Prader, S., Kotthoff, U., Greenwood, D.R., McCarthy, F.M.G., Schmiedl, G., Donders, T. (2020): New Jersey's paleoflora and eastern North American climate throughPaleogene–Neogene warm phases. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 279, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104224.

2019

• Kern, O.A., Koutsodendris, A., Mächtle, B., Christanis, K., Schukraft, G., Scholz, C., Kotthoff, U., Pross, J. (2019): XRF core scanning yields reliable semiquantitative data on the elemental composition of highly organic-rich sediments: Evidence from the Füramoos peat bog (Southern Germany). Science of the Total Environment 697, 134110.
• Müller, S., Dunlop, J., Kotthoff, U., Hammel, J., Harms, D. (2019): The oldest short-tailed whipscorpion (Schizomida): a new genus and species from the Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104227.
• van Wirdum, F., Andrén, E., Wienholz, D., Kotthoff, U., Moros, M., Fanget, A.-S., Seidenkrantz, M.-S., Andrén, T. (2019): Middle and Late Holocene variations in salinity and primary productivity in the central Baltic Sea: A multiproxy study from the Landsort Deep (IODP Expedition 347, Site M0063). Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 1-22, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00051.

2018

• Wulf, S., Hardiman, M., Staff, R., Koutsodendris, A., Appelt, O., Blockley, S., Lowe, J., Manning, C., Ottolini, L., Schmitt, A., Smith, V., Tomlinson, E., Knipping, A., Kotthoff, U., Milner, A., Müller, U., Christanis, K., Kalaitzidis, S., Tzedakis, C., Schmiedl, G., Pross, J. (2018): The Marine Isotope Stage 1 to 5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean region. Journal of Quaternary Science 186, 236-262.

2017

• Dunlop, J.A., Kotthoff, U., Hammel, J.U., Ahrens, J., Harms, D. (2017): Arachnids in Bitterfeld amber: A unique fauna of fossils from the heart of Europe or simply old friends? Evolutionary Systematics 2, 31-44, https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.2.22581.
• Marinova, E., Harrison, S.P., Bragg, F., Connor, S., de Laet, V., Leroy, S.A.G., Mudie, P., Atanassova, S., Bozilova, E., Caner, H., Cordova, C., Djamali, M., Filipova-Marinova, M., Gerasimenko, N., Jahns, S., Kouli, K., Kotthoff, U., Kvavadze, E., Lazarova, M., Novenko, E., Ramezani, E., Röpke, A., Shumilovskikh, L., Tanţău, I., Tonkov, S. (2017): Pollen-derived biomes in the Eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea-Caspian-Corridor. Journal of Biogeography, doi: 10.1111/jbi.13128.
• Kotthoff, U., Groeneveld, J., Ash, J.L., Fanget, A.-S., Quintana Krupinski N., Peyron, O., Stepanova, A., Warnock, J., van Helmond N.A.G.M., Passey, B.H., Clausen, O.R., Bennike, O., Andrén, E., Granoszewski, W., Andrén, T., Filipson, H.L., Seidenkrantz, M.-S., Slomp, C.P., Bauersachs, T. (2017): Reconstructing Holocene temperature and salinity variations in the western Baltic Sea region: a multi-proxy comparison from the Little Belt (IODP Expedition 347, Site M0059). Biogeoscience 14, 5607-5632.
• Papadomanolaki, N.M., Dijkstra, N., van Helmond, N.A.G.M., Hagens, M., Bauersachs, T., Kotthoff, U., Sangiorgi, F., Slomp, C.P. (2017): Controls of the onset and termination of past hypoxia in the Baltic Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 490, 347-354.
• Prader, S., Kotthoff, U., McCarthy, F.M.G., Schmiedl, G., Donders, T.H., Greenwood, D.R. (2017): Vegetation and climate development of the New Jersey hinterland during the late Middle Miocene (IODP Expedition 313 Site M0027). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 485, 854-868.
• Warnock, J.P., Bauersachs, T., Kotthoff, U., Brandt, H.-T., Andrén, E. (2017/2018): Holocene environmental history of the Ångermanälven Estuary, northern Baltic Sea. Boreas, doi: 10.1111/bor.12281. ISSN 0300-9483.
• Peyron, O., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Brayshaw, D., Goring, S., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Desprat, S., Fletcher, W., Gambin, B., Ioakim, C., Joannin, S., Kotthoff, U., Kouli, K., Montade, V., Pross, J., Sadori, L., Magny, M. (2017): Precipitation changes in the Mediterranean basin during the Holocene from terrestrial and marine pollen records: a model–data comparison, Climate of the Past 13, 249-265, doi: 10.5194/cp-13-249-2017.

2015

• Pross, J., Koutsodendris, A., Christanis, K., Fischer, T., Fletcher, W,J,m Hardiman, M., Kalaitzidis, S., Knipping, M., Kotthoff, U., Milner, A.M., Müller, U.C., Schmiedl, G., Siavalas, G., Tzedakis, P.C., Wulf, S. (2015): The 1.35-Ma-long terrestrial climate archive of Tenaghi Philippon, northeastern Greece: Evolution, exploration, and perspectives for future research. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 48, 253-276. doi: 10.1127/nos/2015/0063.

2014

• Triantaphyllou, M.V., Gogou, A., Bouloubassi, I., Dimiza, M., Kouli, K., Rousakis, G., Kotthoff, U., Emeis, K.C., Papanikolaou, M., Athanasiou, M., Parinos, C., Ioakim, C., Lykousis, V. (2014): Evidence for a warm and humid Mid-Holocene episode in the Aegean and northern Levantine Seas (Greece, NE Mediterranean). Regional Environmental Change 14, 1697-1712. doi: 10.1007/s10113-013-0495-6.
• Kotthoff, U., Greenwood, D.R., McCarthy, F.M.G., Müller-Navarra, K., Prader, S., Hesselbo, S.P. (2014): Late Eocene to middle Miocene (33 to 13 million years ago) vegetation and climate development on the North American Atlantic Coastal Plain (IODP Expedition 313, Site M0027). Climate of the Past 10, 1523-1539. doi: 10.5194/cp-10-1523-2014.

2013

• McCarthy, F.M.G., Katz, M.E., Kotthoff, U., Browning, J.V., Miller, K.G., Zanatta, R., Williams, R.H., Drljepan, M., Hesselbo, S.P., Bjerrum, C.J., Mountain, G.S. (2013): Sea level control of New Jersey margin architecture: palynological evidence from IODP Expedition 313. Geosphere 9, 1457-1487. doi:10.1130/GES00853.1.
• Fang, L., Bjerrum, C.J., Hesselbo, S.P., Kotthoff, U., McCarthy, F.M.G., Huang, B., Ditchfield, P.W., (2013): Carbon-isotope stratigraphy from terrestrial organic matter through the Monterey Event, Miocene, New Jersey margin (IODP Expedition 313). Geosphere 9, 1303-1318.
• Kotthoff, U., Wappler, T., Engel, M.S. (2013): Greater past disparity and diversity hints at ancient migrations of European honey bee lineages into Africa and Asia. Journal of Biogeography 40, 1832-1838. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12151.

2011

• Peyron, O., Goring, S., Dormoy, I., Kotthoff, U., Pross, J., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Drescher-Schneider, R., Vannière, B., Magny, M. (2011): Holocene seasonality changes in the central Mediterranean region reconstructed from the pollen sequences of Lake Accesa (Italy) and Tenaghi Philippon (Greece). The Holocene 21, 131–146.
• Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Tzedakis, P.C., Gamble, C., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Wulf, S., Christanis, K., (2011): The role of climate in the spread of modern humans into Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 273-279.
• Kotthoff, U., Wappler, T., Engel, M.S. (2011b): Miocene honey bees from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Zookeys 96, 11-37.
• Kotthoff, U., Koutsodendris, A., Pross, J., Schmiedl, G., Bornemann, A., Kaul, C., Marino, G., Peyron, O., Schiebel, R. (2011a): Impact of late glacial cold events in the Northern Aegean region, reconstructed from integrated marine and terrestrial proxy data. Journal of Quaternary Science 26, 86-96.

2010

• Schmiedl, G., Kuhnt, T., Ehrmann, W., Emeis, K.-C., Hamann, Y., Kotthoff, U., Dulski, P., Pross, J.  (2010): Climatic forcing and regional differentiation of eastern Mediterranean deep-water formation and benthic ecosystems during the past 22 000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 3006-3020.
• Koutsodendris, A., Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Brauer, A., Kotthoff, U., Lotter, A.F. (2010): Vegetation dynamics and climate variability during the Holsteinian interglacial based on a pollen record from Dethlingen, North Germany. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 3298-3307.
• Pross, J., Houben, A.P.J., van Simaeys, S., Williams, G.L., Kotthoff, U., Coccioni, R., Wilpshaar, M., Brinkhuis, H. (2010): Umbria-Marche revisited: A refined magnetostratigraphic calibration of dinoflagellate cyst events for the Oligocene of the Western Tethys. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 158, 213-235.

2009

• Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Müller, U.C., Peyron, O., Dormoy, I., Schmiedl, G., Kalaitzidis, S., Smith, A.M. (2009): Massive perturbation in terrestrial ecosystems of the Eastern Mediterranean region associated with the 8.2 kyr climatic event. Geology 37, 887-890.
• Mertens, K.N., Ribeiro, S., Bouimetarhan, I., Caner, H., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Dale, B., De Vernal, A., Ellegaard, M., Filipova, M., Godhe, A., Goubert, E., Grøsfjeld, K., Holzwarth, U., Kotthoff, U., Leroy, S.A.G., Londeix, L., Marret, F., Matsuoka, K., Mudie, P.J., Naudts, L., Peña-Manjarrez, J.L., Persson, A., Popescu, S.-M., Pospelova, V., Sangiorgi, F., Van Der Meer, M.T.J., Vink, A., Zonneveld, K.A.F., Vercauteren, D., Vlassenbroeck, J., Louwye, S. (2008). Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments investigating its potential as a salinity proxy.  Marine Micropaleontology 70, 54-69.
• Combourieu Nebout, N., Peyron, O., Dormoy, I., Desprat, S., Beaudouin, C., Kotthoff, U., Marret, F. (2009). Rapid climatic variability in the west Mediterranean during the last 25 000 years from high resolution pollen data. Climate of the Past 5, 503-521.
• Dormoy, I., Peyron, O., Combourieu Nebout, N., Goring, S., Kotthoff, U., Magny, M., Pross, J. (2009). Terrestrial climate variability and seasonality changes in the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP deduced from marine pollen records. Climate of the Past 5, 615-632.

2008

• Kotthoff, U., Müller, U.C., Pross, J., van de Schootbrugge, B., Schmiedl, G., Schulz, H. (2008a): Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation dynamics in the Aegean region: An integrated view based on pollen data from marine and terrestrial archives. The Holocene 18, 1019-1032.
• Kotthoff, U., Pross, J., Müller, U.C., Peyron, O., Schmiedl, G., Schulz, H., Bordon, A. (2008b): Climate dynamics in the borderlands of the Aegean Sea during formation of Sapropel S1 deduced from a marine pollen record. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 832-845.

2005

• Kotthoff, U. & Schmid, U. (2005): A new fossil hoverfly (Insecta, Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Randeck Maar (Early Miocene, SW Germany). Palaeontology 48, 1091-1096.

Popular/not-peer-reviewed science publications, IODP Proceedings etc.

• Haug, J.T., Azar, D., Ross, A. et al. incl. Kotthoff, U. (2020): Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding "Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data": Myanmar amber. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-020-00524-9
• Haug, C., Reumer, J.W.F., Haug, J.W.T. et al. incl. Kotthoff, U. (2020): Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”: Myanmar amber. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-020-00522-x
• Ahrens J., Harms D., Dunlop J.A., Kotthoff, U. (2019): Pseudoscorpions in Bitterfeld amber – a survey. Mauritiana 37, 113-147.
• Lehmann, J., Kotthoff, U. (2018): Insektensterben – das Ende der erfolgreichsten Tiergruppe unseres Planeten? Fossilien 2, 8-12.
• Prader, S., Kotthoff, U., McCarthy, F. M. G., Schmiedl, G., Donders, T. H., Greenwood, D. R. (2018): Plants in movement – Floristic and climatic characterization of the New Jersey hinterland during the Palaeogene–Neogene transition in relation to major glaciation events, Biogeosciences Discussions, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2017-511.
• Kotthoff, U. (2017): Darmflagellaten und Blütenstaub – Evolutionäre Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Insekten und Pflanzen. Natur und Wissen – Mitteilungen aus dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg 14, 14-16. ISSN 1614-0931.
• Andrén, T., Jørgensen, B.B., Cotterill, C., Green, S., and the IODP Expedition 347 Scientific Party (2015): IODP Expedition 347: Baltic Sea basin paleoenvironment and biosphere. Scientific Drilling, 20:1–12.
• Andrén, T., Jørgensen, B.B., Cotterill, C., Green, S., and the Expedition 347 Scientists (2015): Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment. Proceedings of Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 347, College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program), 2015.
• Mountain, G. S., Proust, J.-N., McInroy, D., Cotterill, C, and the Expedition 313 scientists (2010): New Jersey Shallow Shelf. Proceedings of Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 313, Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), 2010.
• Brandt, A., Kotthoff, U. & Kranz, G. (2010): Naturwissenschaftliche Museen und Sammlungen der Universität Hamburg. ISBN: 978-3-00-031816-0, 68 Seiten.
• Pross, J., Tzedakis, P., Schmiedl, G., Christanis, K., Hooghiemstra, H., Müller, U.C., Kotthoff, U., Kalaitzidis, S., Milner, A. (2007): Tenaghi Philippon Re-Visited: Drilling a Continuous Lower-Latitude Terrestrial Climate Archive of the Last 250,000 Years. Scientific Drilling 5, 30-32.
• Kotthoff, U. (2005): Über einige Hymenoptera (Insecta) aus dem Unter-Miozän des Randecker Maars (Schwäbische Alb, Südwestdeutschland). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B 355, 25 pp.
• Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Zonneveld, K.A.F. (2004): Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts as paleo­environmental indicators in the Meso- and Cenozoic: potential and limits. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 78, 5-39.