Wedmann, Sonja

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Dr. Sonja Wedmann is a biologist who has been on the scientific staff of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum since 2007. She is Coordinator of the Senckenberg Messel Pit Research Station and responsible for the annual excavations that are conducted there. Her field of research covers fossilized insects from various Tertiary sites and in Baltic amber. Her research focuses on the evolution of biodiversity and biogeography.

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Dlussky Wappler Wedmann 2008.pdf|Dlussky, G.M., Wappler, T. & Wedmann, S. 2008. New middle Eocene formicid species from Germany and the evolution of weaver ants. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4): 615-626.]]


 * [[Media:Dlussky Wappler Wedmann 2009.pdf|Dlussky, G.M., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S. 2009. Fossil ants of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Eocene of Europe and remarks on the evolution of arboreal ant communities. Zootaxa 2031: 1-20]].


 * [[Media:Dlussky - wedmann 2012.pdf| Dlussky, G. M.; Wedmann, S. 2012. The poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae: Amblyoponinae, Ectatomminae, Ponerinae) of Grube Messel, Germany: high biodiversity in the Eocene. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10:725-753.]]