I was a medical doctor by day, molluscan paleontologist by night, with a PhD in palaeontology and stratigraphy from the University of Lisbon. Now retired from medicine and working full time on fossil shells. My primary interests are promoting the importance of sound taxonomy and extrapolating the palaeobiogeographical implications thereof. Active in European and tropical American Cainozoic gastropod taxonomy and palaeobiogeography.
Keywords
Cainozoic gastropod taxonomy, palaeobiogeography, ecostratigraphy, Tropical America, Europe
Researchinterest
Collaborating with several institutions, most importantly Frank Wesselingh at Naturalis on NW European assemblages, Mathias Harzhauser in Vienna on Paratethian faunas, Carlos Marques da Silva in Lisbon of Portuguese assemblages, and Sérgio Ávila in the Azores on the palaeobiogeography of the Azores and other Atlantic Island groups.
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Currenttopics
At present working on:
- Systematic description of the Pliocene gastropod assemblages of Estepona, southern Spain
- Revision of the Miocene Paratethian faunas and its palaeobiogeographic implications.
- Systematic revision of the Upper Miocene to Pleistocene gastropod assemblages of NW France, previously known as the 'Redonian'
- Description of the Pliocene assemblages of Santa Maria Island (Azores) and its palaeobiogeographic implications.
Keypublications
- Landau B. M., Vermeij, G. & Silva, C. M. (2008). Southern Caribbean Neogene palaeobiogeography revisited. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 257, 445-461. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.019
- Landau B. M., Vermeij, G. & Silva, C. M. (2009). Pacific elements in the Caribbean Neogene gastropod fauna: the source-sink model, larval development, disappearance, and faunal units. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 180(4), 249-258. 10.2113/gssgfbull.180.4.343
- Landau, B. M., Harzhauser, M., İslamoǧlu, Y. & Silva, C. M. da (2013). Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research, 11-13, 3-584.
- Landau, B.M., Silva, C.M. da & Heitz, A. 2016. Systematics of the lower-middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 389-390: 1-581.
- Landau, B. M., Silva, C. M. da, Van Dingenen, F. & Ceulemans, L. 2019. Lower Pliocene gastropod assemblages from northwestern France: Palaeoceanographic and palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 285 (3-4): 248-254. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109387
- All publications (.doc)
PhDsupervision
I am at present supervising Claudia Saccetti, PhD student at the University of Lisbon in her systematic revision of the Pliocene gastropods and bivalves of Santa Maria Island, Azores and the palaeobiogeography of the Pliocene Azores based on these molluscs.
Claudia Sacchetti's profile page can be found here link
Teachingactivities
Teaching experience in workshop on Island of Cubagua with Biology/Geology students (2006). Lecturer in Molluscan Paleontology and Taxonomy on the Azores Paleontology Workshop (2022, 2023). Supervisor to Masters student in Naturalis and PhD students in the University of Lisbon.
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