Jens Lorenz Franzen, Philip D. Gingerich, Jörg Habersetzer, Jørn H. Hurum, Wighart von Koenigswald, B. Holly Smith: Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology. PLoS ONE 4 (5), 2009, S. e5723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005723.
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Agustín Scanferla, Krister T. Smith: Exquisitely Preserved Fossil Snakes of Messel: Insight into the Evolution, Biogeography, Habitat Preferences and Sensory Ecology of Early Boas. Diversity 12, 2020, S. 100, doi:10.3390/d12030100.
Olaf K. Lenz, Volker Wilde, Dieter F. Mertz und Walter Riegel: New palynology-based astronomical and revised 40Ar/39Ar ages for the Eocene maar lake of Messel (Germany). In: International Journal of Earth Sciences. 21. Dezember 2014, doi:10.1007/s00531-014-1126-2.
Krister T. Smith, Margaret Collinson, Annelise Folie, Jörg Habersetzer, Florian Hennicke, Erika Kothe, Thomas Lehmann, Olaf K. Lenz, Gerald Mayr, Norbert Micklich, Renate Rabenstein, Rachel Racicot, Stephan F. K. Schaal, Thierry Smith, Aixa Tosal, Dieter Uhl, Torsten Wappler, Sonja Wedmann, Michael Wuttke: The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. Bd. 104, 2024, doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00633-2
Valentin de Mazancourt, Torsten Wappler, Sonja Wedmann: Exceptional preservation of internal organs in a new fossil species of freshwater shrimp (Caridea: Palaemonoidea) from the Eocene of Messel (Germany). Scientific Reports 12, 2022, S. 18114, doi:10.1038/s41598-022-23125-9.
Alexander G. Kirejtshuk: Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea. Geosciences 10, 2020, S. 73, doi:10.3390/geosciences10020073.
Sonja Wedmann, Thomas Hörnschemeyer, Michael S. Engel, Reinhard Zetter, Friðgeir Grímsson: The last meal of an Eocene pollen-feeding fly. Current Biology 31, 2021, S. 1–7, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.025.
Christian Geier, Michael S. Engel, Johannes M. Bouchal, Silvia Ulrich, Friðgeir Grímsson, Sonja Wedmann, Torsten Wappler: The earliest large carpenter bee (Xylocopa) and its adhering pollen (Araliaceae, Theaceae). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2024, doi:10.1007/s12549-024-00604-7.
Jaqueline Abels, Sonja Wedmann: A fossil wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespula? hassiaca) from the Eocene of Messel. Palaeontographica A (Paläozoologie) 323, 2022, S. 105–117, doi:10.1127/pala/2021/0122.
Tamara Spasojevic, Sonja Wedmann und Seraina Klopfstein: Seven remarkable new fossil species of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit. PLoS ONE 13 (6), 2018, S. e0197477, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197477.
Walter G. Joyce, Norbert Micklich, Stephan F. K. Schaal und Torsten M. Scheyer: Caught in the act: the first record of copulating fossil vertebrates. Biology Letters 8, 2012, S. 846–848, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0361.
Krister T. Smith, Agustin Scanferla: A nearly complete skeleton of the oldest definitive erycine boid (Messel, Germany). Geodiversitas 43 (1), 2021, S. 1–24, doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a1.
Mariana Chuliver, Agustín Scanferla, Krister T. Smith: Live birth in a 47‑million‑year‑old snake. The Science of Nature 109, 2022, S. 56, doi:10.1007/s00114-022-01828-3.
Hussam Zaher, Krister T. Smith: Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas. Biology Letters 16 (12), 2020, S. 20200735, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2020.0735.
Krister T. Smith, Agustín Scanferla: More than one large constrictor snake lurked around Paleolake Messel. Palaeontographica A (Paläozoologie) 323, 2022, S. 75–103, doi:10.1127/pala/2021/0119.
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Andrej Čerňanský, Krister T. Smith: Eolacertidae: a new extinct clade of lizards from the Palaeogene; with comments on the origin of the dominant European reptile group – Lacertidae. Historical Biology 30 (7), 2018, S. 994–1014, doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1327530.
Andrej Čerňanský, Krister T. Smith: The first juvenile specimen of Eolacerta (Squamata: Eolacertidae) from the early–middle Eocene of the Messel Pit (Germany). Comptes Rendus Palevol 18, 2019, S. 735–745, doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2019.04.004.
Krister T. Smith: First crocodile-tailed lizard (Squamata: Pan-Shinisaurus) from the Paleogene of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 (3), 2017, S. e1313743, doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1313743.
Krister T. Smith, Jörg Habersetzer: The anatomy, phylogenetic relationships, and autecology of the carnivorous lizard „Saniwa“ feisti Stritzke, 1983 from the Eocene of Messel, Germany. Comptes Rendus Palevol 20 (23), 2021, S. 441–506, doi:10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a23.
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Gerald Mayr (2005): A Fluvioviridavis-like birds from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 42 (11): S. 2021–2037. doi:10.1139/e05-060
Daniel T. Ksepka, Lance Grande, Gerald Mayr: Oldest Finch-Beaked Birds Reveal Parallel Ecological Radiations in the Earliest Evolution of Passerines. Current Biology 29, 2019, S. 1–7, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.040.
Edwin Cadena: Microscopical and elemental FESEM and Phenom ProX-SEM-EDS analysis of osteocyte- and blood vessel-like microstructures obtained from fossil vertebrates of the Eocene Messel Pit, Germany. PeerJ 4, 2016, S. e1618, doi:10.7717/peerj.1618.
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What do we do with fossils like this? Beschreibung des Umbettungsverfahrens auf der Website der Universität Oslo (englisch), zuletzt abgerufen am 23. Januar 2013.