Ausbildung

2005
PhD Wirbeltier Paläoökologie – Universität Lyon 1, FR

2001
MSc. Wirbeltier Paläontologie – Universität Cork, IR (UCC) und Universität Lyon 1, FR

1999
BSc. Geowissenschaften – Universität Lille 1, FR

1996
Fr. Baccalauréat, Bio-Geowissenschaft – Valenciennes, FR

Berufliche Stationen

Seit 2018

Leiter & Kurator Abteilung Geowissenschaften, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Seit 2008
Kurator Geowissenschaften, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

2005 – 2007
Geologie-Paläontologie Lehrer, Universität Nantes, FR

Publikationen

2021

X. Lu, L. Costeur, M. Hugueney, O. Maridet (2021). New data on early Oligocene dormice (Rodentia, Gliridae) from southern Europe: phylogeny and diversification of the family. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19, 169-189. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2021.1888814

Mecozzi B., R. Sardella, A. Boscaini, M. Cherin, L. Costeur, J. Madurell-Malapeira, M. Pavia, A. Profico, D. A. Iurino (2021). The tale of a short-tailed cat: new outstanding Late Pleistocene fossils of Lynx pardinus from southern Italy. Quaternry Science Reviews 262. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106840

Mennecart B., G. Métais, L. Costeur, L. Ginsburg, G. E. Rössner (2021). Reassessment of the enigmatic ruminant Miocene genus Amphimoschus Bourgeois, 1873 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Ruminantia, Pecora). PLoSONE 16 (1). e0244661. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244661.

Mennecart B., Métais G., Tissier J., Rössner G.E., & Costeur L. (2021). 3D models related to the publication: Reassessment of the enigmatic ruminant Miocene genus Amphimoschus Bourgeois, 1873 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Ruminantia, Pecora). MorphoMuseum 7, e131. DOI 10.18563/journal.m3.131.

Rössner G. E., L. Costeur, T. Scheyer (2021). Antiquity and fundamental processes of the antler cycle in Cervidae (Mammalia). The Science of Nature 108. doi: 10.1007/s00114-020-01713-x

 

2020

Benoit J., Legendre L.J., Farke A.A., Neenan J.M., Mennecart M., Costeur L., Merigeaud S. & Manger P.R. (2020)  test of the lateral semicircular canal correlation to head posture, diet and other biological traits in “ungulate” mammals. Scientific reports 10 (1), 1-22

Hennekam J.J., Herridge V.L., Costeur L., Di Patti C. & Cox P.G. (2020). Virtual Cranial Reconstruction of the Endemic Gigantic Dormouse Leithia melitensis (Rodentia, Gliridae) from Poggio Schinaldo, Sicily. Open Quaternary, 6(1), p.7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/oq.79

Mennecart B., Guignard C., Schulz G., Müller B. & Costeur L. (2020). Allometric and phylogenetic aspects of stapes morphology in ruminants. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 8:176. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00176.

Rössner G.E., Costeur L. & Scheyer T. (2020). Antiquity and fundamental processes of the antler cycle in Cervidae (Mammalia). The Science of Nature 108:3

 

2019

Costeur L., Mennecart B., Müller B. & Schulz G. (2019). Observations on the scaling relationship between bony labyrinth, skull size and body mass in ruminants. Proceedings of SPIE 11113.

Costeur L., Maridet O., Lapauze O., Mennecart B., Lu X., Roch R., Tissier J., Vasilyan D., Balme C. & Legal S. (2019). Le gisement oligocène de Murs, une histoire centenaire culminant sur des fouilles prometteuses. Courrier scientifique du Parc naturel régional du Luberon et de la Réserve de biosphère Luberon-Lure 15, 58-69.

Hammond A.S., Rook L., Anaya A.D., Cioppi E., Costeur L., Moyà-Solà S. & Almécija S. (2019). Insights into the lower torso in late Miocene hominoid Oreopithecus bambolii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(1):278-284.

Kellner S., Knappertsbusch M., Costeur L., Müller B. & Schulz G. (2019). Imaging the internal structure of Borelis schlumbergeri Reichel (1937): Advances by high-resolution hard X-ray microtomography. Palaeontologia Electronica 22.1.17A 1-19. https://doi.org/10.26879/854.

Maridet O., Hugueney, M. & Costeur L. (2019). Aubenas-les-Alpes (S-E France). Part III - Last and final part of the mammalian assemblage with some comments on the palaeoenvironment and palaeobiogeography. Annales de Paléontologie 105(2) : 139-153.

Park T., Mennecart B., Costeur L., Grohé C. & Cooper N. (2019). Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae. BMC evolutionary Biology 19: 195.

 

2018

Costeur L., Grohe C., Ekdale E.G., Aguirre-Fernández G., Schulz G., Müller B. & Mennecart B. (2018). The bony labyrinth of toothed whales reflects both phylogeny and habitat preferences. Scientific Reports 8:7841.

Costeur L., Valli A.M., Beaudouin C. & Mennecart B. (2018). On some ruminant petrosal bones and their bony labyrinth from Senèze (Villafranchian, France). Revue de Paléobiologie de Genève 37(2): 443-456

Mennecart B., de Perthuis A., Rössner, G.E., Guzmán J., de Perthuis A. & Costeur L. (2018) The first French tragulid skull (Mammalia, Ruminantia) and associated tragulid remains from the Middle Miocene of Contres (Loir-et-Cher, France). Comptes Rendus Palevol17(3): 189-200.

Mennecart B., Zoboli D., Costeur L. & Pillola G.L. (2018). On the systematic position of the oldest insular ruminant Sardomeryx oschiriensis (Mammalia, Ruminantia) and the early evolution of the Giraffomorpha. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2018.1472145

Tissier J., Becker D., Codrea V., Costeur L., Fărcaş C., Solomon A., Venczel M. & Maridet O. (2018). New data on Amynodontidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Eastern Europe: phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographic implications during the Eocene-Oligocene transition. PLoSONE 13(4) e0193774.

Tissier J., Becker D., Codrea V., Costeur L., Fărcaş C., Solomon A., Venczel M. & Maridet O. (2018). 3D models related to the publication: New data on Amynodontidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Eocene of Eastern Europe: phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographic implications. MorphoMuseuM, https://doi.org/10.18563/m3.3.4.e5.

 

2017

Aguirre-Fernández G., Mennecart B., Sánchez-Villagra M.R., Sánchez R., Costeur L. (2017). A fossil dolphin from the northern Neotropics, tempo and mode of habitat transitions in iniid evolution. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(3). doi: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1315817.

Aiglstorfer M., Mennecart B., Costeur L. & Heizmann E.P.J. (2017). "Micromeryx" eiselei - a new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe. PLoSONE 12(10): e0185679.

Aiglstorfer M., Mennecart B., Costeur L. & Heizmann E.P.J. (2017). 3D models related to the publication: Micromeryx? eiselei - a new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe. MorphoMuseuM. doi: 10.18563/m3.3.4.e4.

Cavin L., Mennecart B., Obrist C., Costeur L. & Furrer H. (2017). Heterochronic evolution explains novel body shape in a Triassic coelacanth from Switzerland. Scientific Reports 7:13695. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13796-0

Costeur L., Mennecart. B., Müller B & Schulz G. (2017). Prenatal growth stages show the development of the ruminant bony labyrinth and petrosal bone. Journal of Anatomy 230(2):347-353. doi: 10.1111/joa.12549

Costeur L., Mennecart. B., Khimchenko A., Müller B & Schulz G. (2017). Innervation of the cow’s inner ear derived from micro-computed tomography. Proceedings of SPIE 10391: doi: 10.1117/12.2276158.

Martini P., Schmid P. & Costeur L. (2017). Comparative morphometry of the Bactrian camel and Dromedary. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. DOI 10.1007/s10914-017-9386-9.

Mennecart B., de Perthuis A. & Costeur L. (2017) 3D models related to the publication: The first French tragulid skull (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Tragulidae) and associated tragulid remains from the Middle Miocene of Contres (Loir-et-Cher, France). MorphoMuseuM. doi: 10.18563/m3.3.3.e4

Mennecart B., De Miguel D., Bibi, F., Rössner, G.E., Métais G., Wang S., Neenan J., Schulz G., Müller B. & Costeur L. (2017). Bony labyrinth morphology clarifies the origin and evolution of deer. Scientific Reports 7:13176. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12848-9.

Mennecart B., Zoboli D., Costeur L. & Pillola G.L. (2017). Reassessment of the ruminant from Sardara, the last non-insular mammal from Sardinia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 268(1):97-104.

Minwer-Barakat R., Marigó J., Becker D. & Costeur L. (2017). A new primate assemblage from La Verrerie de Roches (Middle Eocene, Switzerland). Journal of Human Evolution 113 :137-154.

Minwer-Barakat R., Marigó J., Femenias-Gual J., Costeur L. & Moyà-Solà S. (2017). Microchoerus hookeri nov. sp., a new late Eocene European microchoerine (Omomyidae, Primates): new insights on the evolution of the genus Microchoerus. Journal of Human Evolution 102:42-66.

Schweizer A.V., Lebrun R., Wilson L.A.B., Costeur L., Schmelzle T. & Sánchez-Villagra M.R. (in press). Size variation under domestication: conservatism in the inner ear shape of wolves, dogs and dingoes. Scientific Reports 7:13330. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13523-9

 

Gesamte Pubplikationsliste:

Loïc Costeur (researchgate.net)

‪Loic Costeur - ‪Google Scholar

Projekte und Museumsaktivitäten

Zuständig für die fossile und rezente Wirbeltierpaläontologie-Osteologie-Sammlung: 

  • Säugetiere
  • Reptilien
  • Fische
  • Vögel 

Konzeption, Entwicklung und wissenschaftliche Projektleitung von Sonderausstellungen:

  • 'Unterwegs im Ohr', 2018-2019
  • 'Mumien', 2016-2017
  • 'Messel, Urpferd & Co', 2009-2010

Forschungsprojekten über die Evolutionsgeschichte der Säugetiere mit Hauptfokus auf Wiederkäuer (Drittmittel vom SNF, unter anderen)

Lehrauftrag - 'Terrestrische Paläontologie II', Universität Fribourg, CH