Dr. F.P. (Frank) Wesselingh
Fossil Mollusca
- wesselingh@naturalis.nnm.nl
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My name is Frank Wesselingh and I am researcher and scientific curator of the fossil mollusks that include shells and snails. Over 300.000 samples containing fossil mollusks are contained within our collections. Every sample yields a tiny view of the past of the earth’s history. On this website you can find information about my own research, the collections of Fossil Mollusca, associated researchers and curators but also research projects for students. The wild variety of shell forms often beggars believe and inspires to ask questions and seek understanding. Soon you can find examples of the wonderful mollusks in the Gallery of the Great Shell Wonders. |
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1 July 2010 – New research into the origin of the SE Asian biodiversity hotspot As part of the EU-funded Initial Training Network "Throughflow", Sonja Reich from Germany started as an early stage researcher. We will, together with the co-supervisor Jon Todd of the BMNH (London) investigate in the next three years the diversification of molluscan faunas in coastal settings in the Indonesian realm throughout the Cenozoic. A first fieldwork is foreseen in Kalimantan in October 2010. |
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22 May 2010 – The book “Fossil shells from the Dutch Coast” presented On May 22 the book “Fossil shells from the Dutch coast” (Fossiele schelpen van de Nederlandse kust) was presented in Naturalis. Approximately 350 species of bivalves, scaphopods and chitons are treated in this work that took 13 years to materialize with the input of ten writers and several tens of collectors.More information (in Dutch) about fossil shells from our beaches can be found here. |
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16 February 2010 – “Amazonia, landscape and species evolution”, a book on the origin of Amazonian ecosystems and biodiversity Amazonia contains world’s largest tropical rainforests as well as largest tropical freshwater ecosystems. In this region immense numbers of plant and animal species live. The origin of the Amazonian diversity has long been subject of intense scientific debate. In this book 25 papers deal with the landscape (including climate) evolution of the Amazon region. Both the fossil record as well as the molecular record of extant organisms are explored and reviewed. They show the relatively ancient (Cenozoic) origin of modern Amazonian biomes and biodiversity. More information on the book can be found here. |
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30 April 2009 – Royal Award for illustrator Gijs Peeters Our ninety year young illustrator of fossil shells, Gijs Peeters, has been appointed on April 29th as Member of the Order of Oranje Nassau. The pencil drawings of shells, both recent and fossil, from Gijs have inspired an entire generation of Dutch shell collectors. More information about the award for Gijs (in Dutch) can be found here. Photograph by Maria den Hertog-Peeters. |
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21 February 2009 – Frank Wesselingh defends his PhD thesis in Turku (Finland) On February 21 2009 I successfully defended my PhD thesis "Molluscan radiations and landscape evolution in Miocene Amazonia". The thesis has been the result of a research project within the Amazon Biodiversity Team of the University of Turku (Finland). Here you can download the thesis summary. |
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Research interests
I have three main research interests: (1) mollusc evolution in long-lived lakes, (2) molluscan extinctions and turnover in the Pliocene and Quaternary of the North Sea Basin and (3) molluscan diversifications in the Neogene and Quaternary of south East Asia.
Molluscan evolution in long-lived lakes
For my PhD thesis I work on Miocene long-lived lake faunas from Western Amazonia (Peru, Colombia) and adjacent regions. Between ca. 23 and 10 million years ago, a long-lived lake, lake Pebas, existed in the region. In the lake an endemic fauna evolved dominated by cochliopid snails and corbulid bivalves.
During the project, a fauna of approximately 160 mollusc species has been documented. With the fauna, an improved biozonation scheme was elaborated. Also, the ecological context of the Pebas fauna has been assessed. With the stratigraphic and ecological framework in place, molluscan evolution in Lake Pebas and the anatomy of molluscan diversifications and extinctions has been documented.
The project is carried out in collaboration with the Biodiversity Centre of the University of Turku in Finland and the Climazonia team of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. I hope to defend my thesis in Turku in March 2008.
Molluscan diversity in Miocene Amazonian Lake Pebas. From Wesselingh & Salo, 2006. 1. Charadreon eucosmius (freshwater cerithoidean snail); 2. Pachydon obliquus (endemic Pebasian corbulid bivalve); 3. Feliconcha feliconcha (endemic Pebasian cochliopid snail).
I am also interested in other long-lived lakes. Currently I participate in projects in dealing with Holocene and Late Pleistocene fossils from the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, Lake Denizli (a Late Miocene long-lived lake in southern Turkey) and in Lake Turkana (a Pliocene-Quaternary lake in East Africa).
Late Miocene molluscs from Lake Denizli, Turkey. From left to right: Theodoxus bukowskii, Didacna laodicaense, Valvata cincta (top) and Micromelania phrygica (bottom). The highly ornate species are endemic to Miocene Lake Denizli. Very often endemic long-lived lake species have ornate shells.
Because of their relatively isolated ecological position and their long duration, long-lived lakes are excellent model systems to study evolution. The molluscs, with their excellent fossilization potential are perfectly suited to perform such studies.
Molluscan extinctions and turnover in the Pliocene and Quaternary of the North Sea Basin
Another are of interest is the development of marine mollusc diversity in the North Sea Basin during the Plio-Pleistocene. This programme contains two projects. The first is a book on the fossil shells of the Dutch Beaches and Estuaries, foreseen in 2008. You can find a project description in Dutch including downloads here . The Dutch beach fauna has an estimated 700 fossil mollusc species that are mainly of a Plio-Pleistocene age. The project is carried out with the help of many amateur and semi-professional colleagues. Regular updates and new chapters can be found in the electronic newsletters, that you can download here.
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Pliocene Pecten grandis, a presumable endemic North Sea Basin Pecten species that is regularly found along beaches in Zeeland. Drawing by L. van der Slik. |
The second project under Geology of the Netherlands comprises an inventory of the molluscs from the so-called Deltadient boreholes from the Dutch southwest. These boreholes were made to investigate the subsurface of the delta area after it was hit by a major flooding catastrophe in 1953. Tens of boreholes yielding abundant fossil material provide insight into the climate and biodiversity of the southern North Sea in the past five million years. The project is carried out with A.C. Janse (Naturalis), A. Slupik (NMR) and T. Meijer (Naturalis). In general, mollusc faunas in the North Sea Basin deteriorated from a diverse, partially endemic, warm temperate fauna in the Early Pliocene to a low diverse boreal fauna in the Quaternary. During this period faunal invasions and extinctions shaped the molluscan diversity of the region. By combining the documentation of the stratigraphy of boreholes with faunal analyses we aim to reconstruct the anatomy of the development of the modern northwest European mollusc faunas.
Pliocene-Quaternary molluscan diversity from borehole Schelphoek. Borehole data in Slupik et al. (in press). DIversity data based on preliminary analyses, showing substantial drop in species numbers from the Piacenzian into the Gelasian, with a simultaneous increase in Pacific immigrant taxa (in blue). Inset: Scaphella lamberti, a warm temperate Pliocene North Sea endemic species that went extinct at the end of the Piacenzian. Drawing L.P. Pouderoyen.
As part of the programme "Geology of the Netherlands" I am involved in various smaller projects dealing with molluscan stratigraphy and palaeoecology in Neogene and Quaternary deposits of the North Sea Basin. These include investigations in the famous fossil site of Langenboom in eastern Noord Brabant (The Netherlands), the Pliocene successions of the Antwerp area (Belgium), the Pliocene-Early Pleistocene Crag Formations of East England as well as Late Quaternary successions in northern Netherlands and the Dutch off shore region.
Impression of the Antwerp Pliocene. The Outcrop in the Deurgankdok. During the construction of the dock, around 2004, there were large exposures containing five different fossiliferous Pliocene units. Among these were intervals with abundant Atrina fragilis kalloensis. The illustrated specimen was collected and prepared by the Belgian collector Marcel Vervoenen.
Molluscan diversifications in the Neogene and Quaternary of south East Asia
Finally, I am increasingly involved in the investigation of the development of marine molluscan diversity in south east Asia during the Cenozoic. Currently, south east Asia is the worlds marine biodiversity hotspot. With the help of the fossil mollusc record I intend to reconstruct the timing and context of the development of this hotspot.
Quaternary of Java (Indonesia). Impression of landscape to the west of Majalengka. Fresh water fossils, including coprolites and cerithoidean snails.
Several smaller projects are and have been carried out, including an inventory of the types of the Martin Collection together with Jacob Leloux (a collection of Cenozoic shells from Java containing almost 2000 types), and inventory of the Kendeng-Mijnwezen collection with Peter van der Gulik, the assessment of molluscan (community) distribution in the Spermonde Archipelago, Sulawesi, with Minke van Det and Willem Renema and own work on the Pleistocene and Miocene deposits and faunas of Java. I intend to expand my research activities in Indonesia in the forthcoming years.
Collections
Impressions of the fossil mollusc collection.
The collection of fossil molluscs in Naturalis is mostly located on the thirteenth floor of our collection tower and contains about 450.000 lots. Much of the collection has been brought together by my predessor Arie Janssen, but in the past decades very significant contributions were made by amateur collectors too.
The largest collection is the stratigraphic collection of Europe (including The Netherlands), which contains especially good material from western Europe. These collections contain material from classical deceased locations. Among the highlights are the Miocene and Eocene collections from France, the Oligocene collections from Belgium and the collection of Miocene fossils from the Dutch locality Miste.
Since 2006 we are managing the collections of fossil molluscs from the former Dutch Geological Survey (NITG-TNO), that contain fantastic material from the subsurface as well as from outcrops in the North Sea Basin. We have large collections of fossil shells from the Dutch beaches that are currently being made available to the larger public through the web. For more information in Dutch of our present assesment of the fossil faunas from the Dutch beaches, you can look here.
Fossil shells from the Dutch beaches. The beach is De Kaloot, a beach in the vicinity of Vlissingen. The beach has been threatened by the development of a container terminal. Picture by Freddy van Nieulande. The shells that can be found include Eemian Flexopecten flexuosus, Early Qauternary Acilla cobboldiae and Boreoscala groenlandicum as well as rarely Eocene Megacardita planicosta. Most of the fossil from De Kaloot are of a Pliocene gae. Drawings by J.P. Pouderoyen and G.J.A. Peeters.
The Indonesian fossil mollusc collections are among the largest in the world and are especially valuable because they contain many type specimens. The single most important collection is the Martin Collection. This collection of Neogene and Quaternary shells from Java is housed in five cabinets. It contains almost two thousand type lots, whose whereabouts and pictures should be available through the web by mid 2008.
The Martin collection (photos by Jacob Leloux). Karl Martin; his magnum opus "Die Fossilien von Java" and Apollon (Biplex) pamotanensis described by Martin.
Another major Indonesian collection is the Mijnwezen/Kendeng collection. These collections were assembled during intensive fieldcampaigns of the former Geological Survey in the nineteen thirties, and much of the material has been published. Seven cabinets contain a wealth of stratigraphically well documented species. In 2008 a type list will be made available through the web.
Impressions from the Mijnwezen-Kendeng collection. "Epitonium" carolimartini (holotype) and fragment of fieldmap of the Kendeng (East Java) area drawn by J. Duifjes in the nineteen thirties.
The collection of fossil holoplanctonic molluscs, assembled and elaborated by Arie Janssen, is the largest in its kind in the world. For more information on this collection, please check the site of Arie Janssen.
Collaborators
All research and collection activities have been carried out with many collegues, whose collaboration I hugely appreciate. Four of my closests collegues are associated researchers at Naturalis. Emeritus curator Arie Janssen's research focusses on the systematics and biostratigraphy of holoplanktonic molluscs. Freddy van Nieulande works on Eocene molluscs of the North Sea Basin, fossil shells of the Dutch beaches, fossil preservation methods and the conservation of threatened fossil localities. Tom Meijer (formerly from the Dutch Geological Survey) works on Neogene and Quaternary marine and non marine molluscs from the North Sea Basin as stratigraphic and paleoecological tool. Anton Janse has been working on Chattian mollusc faunas in the past and is the motor behind our deltadienst project.
Peter Moerdijk from Middelburg and I organise and edit the book 'fossil shells from the Dutch Beaches and estuaries". I furthermore hugely enjoy the work with various amateur collectors and researchers, many of whom are organised in the Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie (WTKG).
In my Amazonian research I have benefited from close cooperation with many people. They include (the list is by no means exhaustive): Matti Räsänen and Jussi Hovikoski from the university of Turku in Finland, Hubert Vonhof and Ron Kaandorpfrom the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Carina Hoorn (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Javier Guerrero (Universidad Nacional Bogota, Colombia), Lidia Romero Pitmann (INGEMMET, Lima, Peru), Maria Ines Ramos (Goeldi Museum, Belem, Brazil) and Oliver Macsotay (Valencia, Venezuela). In other long-lived lake projects I work together with Salle Kroonenberg (TU Delft), Jose Joordens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Imre Magyar (MOL, Budapest, Hungary) and Hulya Alçiçek (Pammukale University, Denizli Turkey).
The Indonesian work is carried out with Willem Renema (Naturalis), Fauzie Hasibuan and Ellina Sufiati (PNG, Bandung, Indonesia), Christine Herthler (University of Frankfurt, Germany), Aswan (ITB, Bandung, Indonesia) and Frank Huffman (University of Austin, United States).
Publications
Naturalis RepositoryScientific Papers
S54. Groenenberg, D.S.J., Wesselingh, F.P., Rajagopal, S., Jansen, J.M., Bos, M.M., van der Velde, G., Gittenberger, E., Hoeksema, B.W., Raad, H. & Hummel, H. Accepted. On the identity of broad-shelled mussels (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Mytilus) from the Dutch delta region. Contributions to Zoology.
S53. Anderson, L.C., Wesselingh, F.P. & Hartman, J.H. 2010. A phylogenetic and morphological context for the radiation of an endemic fauna in a long-lived lake: Corbulidae (Bivalvia; Myoida) in the Miocene Pebas Formation of western Amazonia. Paleobiology, 36: 534-554 (in press).
S52. Wesselingh, F.P. & Alҫiҫek, H. 2010. A new cardiid bivalve from the Pliocene Baklan Basin (Turkey) and the origin of modern Ponto-caspian taxa. Palaeontology, 53: 711-720.
S51. Wesselingh, F.P., Hoorn, C., Kroonenberg, S.B., Antonelli, A.A., Lundberg, J.G., Vonhof, H.B. & Hooghiemstra, H. 2010. On the origin of Amazonian landscapes and biodiversity: a synthesys. In: Hoorn., C. & Wesselingh, F.P. (eds.). Amazonia, landscape and species evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. Pp. 421-432.
S50. Wesselingh, F.P. & Ramos, M.I.F. 2010. Amazonian aquatic invertebrate faunas (Mollusca, Ostracoda) and their development over the past 30 million years. In: Hoorn., C. & Wesselingh, F.P. (eds.). Amazonia, landscape and species evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. Pp. 302-316.
S49. Hovikoski, J., Wesselingh, F.P., Räsänen, M., Gingras, M. & Vonhof, H.B. 2010. Marine influence in Amazonia: evidence from the geological record. In: Hoorn., C. & Wesselingh, F.P. (eds.). Amazonia, landscape and species evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. Pp. 143-161.
S48. Hoorn, C., Wesselingh, F.P., Hovikoski, & Guerrero, J. 2010. The development of the Amazonian mega-wetland (Miocene; Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia). In: Hoorn., C. & Wesselingh, F.P. (eds.). Amazonia, landscape and species evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. Pp. 123-142.
S47. Joordens, J.C.A., Wesselingh, F.P., Vos, J. de, Vonhof, H.B. & Kroon, D. 2009. Relevance of aquatic environments for hominins: a case study from Trinil (Java, Indonesia ). Journal of Human Evolution, 57: 656-671.
S46. Wesselingh, F.P. & Renema, W.. 2009. Documenting molluscan evolution from ancient long-lived lakes: the case of Toxosoma Conrad, 1874 (Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) in Miocene Amazonian Lake Pebas. American Malacological Bulletin, 27: 83-93.
S45. Wesselingh, F.P. 2009. Molluscan radiations and landscape evolution in Miocene Amazonia. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis AII, 232: 1-41. https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/43603/AII232Wesselingh.pdf?sequence=1
S44. Rasser, M.W., Harzhauser, M., Anistratenko, O.Y., Anistratenko, V.V., Bassi, D., Belak, M., Berger, J.-P., Bianchini, G., Čičić, S., Ćosović, V., Doláková, N., Drobne, K., Filipescu, S., Gürs, K., Hladilová, Š., Hrvatović, H., Jelen, B., Kasiński, J.R., Kováč, M., Kralj, P., Marjanac, T., Márton, E., Mietto, P., Moro, A., Nagymarosy, A., Nebelsick, J.H., Nehyba, S., Ogorelec, B., Oszczypko, N., Pavelić, D., Pavlovec, R., Pavšič, J., Petrová, P., Piwocki, M., Poljak, M., Pugliese, N., Redžepović, R., Rifelj, H., Roetzel, R., Skaberne, D., Sliva, L., Standke, G., Tunis, G., Vass, D., Wagreich, M. & Wesselingh, F.P. 2008. Palaeogene and Neogene. In: McCann T. (ed.). The Geology of Central Europe. Volume 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Geological Society of London, London. Pp. 1031-1140.
S43. Wesselingh, F.P. 2008. Onobops umbilispiralis nov. sp., a new gastropod species from the Miocene of Western Amazonia. Basteria, 72: 152-155.
S42. Wesselingh, F.P., Alҫiҫek, H., & Magyar, I. 2008. A Late Miocene Paratethyan type mollusc fauna from the Denizli Basin (southwestern Anatolia, Turkey) and its regional palaeobiogeographic implications. Geobios, 41: 861-879.
S41. Renema, W., Bellwood, D.R., Braga, J.C., Bromfield, K., Hall, R., Johnson, K.G., Lunt, P., Meyer, C.P., McMonagle, L., Morley, R.J., O’dea, A., Todd, J.A., Wesselingh, F.P., Wilson, M.E.J.& Pandolfi, J.M. 2008. Hopping Hotspots: global shifts in marine biodiversity. Science, 321: 654-657 41.
S40. Wijnker, E., Bor, T.J., Wesselingh, F.P., Munstermann, D.K., Brinkhuis, H., Burger, A.W., Vonhof, H.B., Post, K., Hoedemakers, C., Janse., A.C. & Taverne, N. 2008. Neogene stratigraphy of the Langenboom locality (Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 87: 165-180.
S39. Slupik, A.A., Wesselingh, F.P., Janse, A.C. & Reumer, J.W.F. 2007. The stratigraphy of the Neogene - Quaternary succession in the south-west Netherlands from the Schelphoek borehole (42G4-11/42G22). A sequence-stratigraphic approach. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 86: 317-332.
S38. Wesselingh, F.P. 2007. Long-lived lake molluscs as island faunas: a bivalve perspective. In: Renema, W. (ed.). Biogeography, time and place: distributions, barriers and islands. Springer, Dordrecht. Pp. 275-314.
S37. Kroonenberg, S.B., Abdurakhmanov, G.M., Badyukova, E.N., van der Borg, K, Kalashnikov, A, Kasimov, N.S., Rychagov, G.I., Svitoch, A.A., Vonhof, H.B. & Wesselingh, F.P. 2007. Solar-forced 2600 BP and Little Ice Age highstands of the Caspian Sea. Quaternary International, 173-174: 137-143.
S36. Wesselingh, F.P. & Macsotay, O. 2006b. A Miocene molluscan faunule from Caucagua (Miranda State, Venezuela), with the description of a new species of Tryonia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Cainozoic Research, 4: 61-65.
S35. Wesselingh, F.P. & Macsotay, O. 2006a. Pachydon hettneri (Anderson, 1928) as indicator for Caribbean-Amazonian lowland connections during the Early-Middle Miocene. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 21: 49-53.
S34. Wesselingh, F.P.& Salo, J. 2006. A Miocene perspective on the evolution of Amazonian biota. Scripta Geologica, 133: 439-458.
S33. Wesselingh, F.P., Ranzi, A. & Räsänen, M.E. 2006d. Miocene freshwater Mollusca from western Brazilian Amazonia. Scripta Geologica, 133: 419-437.
S32. Wesselingh, F.P., Kaandorp, R.J.G., Vonhof, H.B., Räsänen M.E., & Renema, W. 2006c. The nature of aquatic landscapes in the Miocene of western Amazonia: an integrated palaeontological and geochemical approach. Scripta Geologica, 133: 363-393.
S31. Wesselingh, F.P., Hoorn, M.C., Guerrero, J., Räsänen, M.E., Romero Pittmann L. & Salo, J. 2006b. The stratigraphy and regional structure of Miocene deposits in western Amazonia (Peru, Colombia and Brazil), with implications for Late Neogene landscape evolution. Scripta Geologica, 133: 291-322.
S30. Wesselingh, F.P., Guerrero, J., Räsänen, M.E., Romero Pitmann, L & Vonhof, H.B. 2006a. Landscape evolution and depositional processes in the Miocene Pebas lake/wetland system: evidence from exploratory boreholes in northeastern Peru. Scripta Geologica, 133: 323-361.
S29. Wesselingh, F.P. 2006c. Evolutionary ecology of the Pachydontinae (Bivalvia, Corbulidae) in the Pebas lake/wetland system (Miocene, western Amazonia). Scripta Geologica, 133: 395-417.
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S28. Wesselingh, F.P. 2006b. Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia. Scripta Geologica, 133: 19-290.
S27. Wesselingh, F.P. 2006a. Miocene long-lived lake Pebas as a stage of mollusc radiations, with implications for landscape evolution in western Amazonia. Scripta Geologica, 133: 1-17.
S26. Bosch, J. & Wesselingh, F. 2006. On the stratigraphic position of the Delden Member (Breda Formation, Overijssel, the Netherlands) with implications for the taxonomy of Pygocardia (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Cainozoic Research, 4: 109-117.
S25. Anderson, L.C., Hartman, J.H. & Wesselingh, F.P. 2006. Close evolutionary affinities between freshwater corbulid bivalves from the Neogene of western Amazonia and Paleogene of the northern Great Plains, USA. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 21: 28-48.
S24. Kaandorp, R.J.G., Wesselingh, F.P. & Vonhof, H.B. 2006. Ecological implications from stable isotope records of Miocene western Amazonian bivalves. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 21: 54-74.
S23. Yanina T.A., Svitoch, A.A. & Wesselingh, F.P. 2005. Golotsenovye kompleksy molluskov razreza Turali dagestanskogo poberezhiya Kaspiya (Holocene molluscs assemblages from the Turali section of the Dagestan coast). Bulleten MOIP [Bulletin of the Moscow Association of the Nature Investigators], 80: 56-63.
S22. Irion, G., Räsänen, M., Mello, N. de, Hoorn, C., Junk, W. & Wesselingh, F. 2005. Letters to the editor. Quaternary Research, 64: 279-282.
S21. Aartsen, J.J. van & Wesselingh, F.P. 2005. Iolaea amazonica sp. nov., another pyramidellid (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) from the Miocene Pebas Formation of western Amazonia (Peru). Basteria, 69: 21-24.
S20. Kaandorp, R.J.G., Vonhof, H.B., Wesselingh, F.P., Romero Pittman, L., Kroon, D. & Hinte, J.E. van. 2005. Seasonal Amazonian rainfall variation in the Miocene climate optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 221: 1-6.
S19. Wesselingh, F.P., Meijer, T. & Cleveringa, P. 2005. Comment: The geometry and stratigraphic position of the Maassluis Formation (western Netherlands and south-eastern North Sea) by Jansen et al. (2004a, b). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 84: 51-52.
S18. Gittenberger, E., Groenenberg, D. & Wesselingh, F. 2004. Mysterious mussels, Mytilus spec. (Bivalvia, Mytilidae), in the Netherlands. Vita Malacologica, 2: 50-51.
S17. Kaandorp, R.J.G., Vonhof, H.B., Busto, C. del, Wesselingh, F,P., Ganssen, G.M., Marmol, A. E., Romero-Pittman, L. & Hinte, J.E. van. 2003. Seasonal stable isotope variations of the modern Amazonian freshwater bivalve Anodontites trapesialis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 194: 339-354.
S16. Vonhof, H.B., Wesselingh, F.P., Kaandorp, R.J.G., Davies, G.R., van Hinte, J.E., Guerrero, J., Räsänen, M., Romero-Pitmann, L. & Ranzi, A. 2003. Paleogeography of Miocene western Amazonia: isotopic composition of molluscan shells constrains the influence of marine incursions. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115: 983-993.
S15. Wesselingh, F.P. 2003. Neritidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene of western Amazonia (Peru, Colombia and Brazil). Cainozoic Research, 2: 117-128.
S14. Wesselingh, F.P., Räsänen, M.E., Irion, G., Vonhof, H.B., Kaandorp, R., Renema, W., Romero Pittman, L. & Gingras, M. 2002. Lake Pebas: a palaeoecological reconstruction of a Miocene, long-lived lake complex in western Amazonia, Cainozoic Research, 1: 35-81.
S13. Wesselingh, F.P., Vervoenen, M., & Nieulande, F.A.D. van. 2002. On the identity of Mytilus edulis forma giganteus Wood, 1874 (Pliocene, North Sea Basin), with implications for the generic identity of European Tertiary mytilids. Cainozoic Research, 1: 35-81.
S12. Vervoenen, M., Wesselingh, F.P. & Nieulande, F.A.D. van. 2000 Mytilus antiquorum J. Sowerby, 1821, and other Pliocene mussels (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from the southern North Sea Basin. Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology, 37: 73-81.
S11. Vermeij, G.J. & Wesselingh, F.P. 2002. Neogastropod molluscs from the Miocene of western Amazonia, with comments on marine to freshwater transitions in molluscs. Journal of Paleontology76: 65-70.
S10. Wesselingh, F.P. 2000. On relict hydrobiid species in Brazilian Amazonia (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae). Basteria, 64: 129-136.
S9. Aartsen, J.J. van & Wesselingh, F.P. 2000. New Odostomia species (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Pyramidellidae) from the Miocene Pebas Formation of western Amazonia (Peru, Colombia). Basteria, 64: 165-170.
S8. Wesselingh, F.P., Cadée, G.C. & Renema, W.R. 1999. Flying high: on the airborne dispersal of aquatic organisms as illustrated by the distribution histories of the gastropod genera Tryonia and Planorbarius. Geologie & Mijnbouw, 78: 165-174.
S7. Wesselingh, F.P. & Gittenberger, E. 1999. The giant Amazonian snail (Pulmonata: Acavidae) beats them all. The Veliger, 42: 67-71.
S6. Linna, A., Kalliola, R., Kauffman, S. & Wesselingh, F. 1998. Heterogenidad edafica de la zona de Iquitos: origen y comprension de sus propiedades. In: Kalliola, R. & S. Flores-Paitan 9eds.). Geoecologia y desarrollo Amazonico: estudio integrado en la zona de Iquitos, Peru. Annales universitatis Turkuensis, Ser A II, 114: 461-480.
S5. Räsänen, M., Linna, A., Irion, G., Rebata Hernani, L., Vargas Huaman, R. & Wesselingh, F. 1998. Geología y geoformas de la zona de Iquitos. In: Kalliola, R. & Flores Paitán, S. (eds), Geoecología y desarollo Amazónico: estudio integrado en la zona de Iquito, Peru. Annales universitatis Turkuensis, Ser A II, 114: 59-137.
S4. Lundberg, J.G., Marshall, L.G., Guerrero, J., Horton, B., Malabarba, M.C.S.L. & Wesselingh, F. 1998. The stage for Neotropical fish diversification: a history of tropical South American rivers. In: Reis, R.E., Vari, R.P., Lucena, Z.M. & Lucena, C.A.S. (eds.), Phylogeny and Classification of Neotropical Fishes: 13-48 Edipucrs, Porto Alegre.
S3. Vonhof, H.B., Wesselingh, F.P. & Ganssen, G.M. 1998. Reconstruction of the Miocene western Amazonian aquatic system using molluscan isotopic signatures. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 141: 85-93.
S2. Wesselingh, F.P., Gürs, K., Davila Arroyo, L. & Nuñez Vargas, C.A. 1996. A Pliocene freshwater molluscan faunule from Guatemala with implications for Neogene Neotropical molluscan dispersal. Documenta Naturae, 100: 7-22.
S1. Wesselingh, F.P. 1996. New Pliocene fresh water gastropods from Guatemala. Documenta Naturae, 100: 23-36.
Books and type catalogues
B4. Wesselingh, F.P. & Moerdijk, P.W. (eds.). 2010. Fossiele schelpen van de Nederlandse Kust. NCB Naturalis, Leiden. 332 pp.
B3. Hoorn., C. & Wesselingh, F.P. (eds.). 2010. Amazonia, landscape and species evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. 447 pp.
B2. Leloux, J. & Wesselingh, F.P. 2009. Types of Cenozoic Mollusca from Java in the Martin Collection of Naturalis. NNM Technical Bulletin, 11: 1-765.
B1. Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den, Leloux, J., Wesselingh, F.P. & Winkler Prins, C.F. 2002. Cenozoic Molluscan types from Java (Indonesia) in the Martin Collection (Division of Cenozoic Mollusca), National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. NNM Technical Bulletin, 5: 1-130.
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