2025
Villalobos-Segura, E., Amadori, M., Stumpf, S., Jambura, P.L., Begat, A., López-Romero, F.A., Schwegert, G., Maxwell, E.E., Kriwet, J. 2025. Articulated specimens provide new insights into the iconic Mesozoic shark genus Sphenodus. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 23, 2507014. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2507014

López-Romero, F.A., Villalobos-Segura, E., Türtscher, J., Berio, F., Stumpf, S., Dearden, R.P., Kriwet, J., Maldonado, E. 2025. Evolution of the batoidea pectoral fin skeleton: convergence, modularity, and integration driving disparity trends. Evolutionary Ecology, 39, 111–134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-025-10330-x

Staggl, M.A., De Gracia, C., López-Romero, F.A., Stumpf, S., Villalobos-Segura, E., Benton, M.J., Kriwet, J. 2025. The Drivers of Mesozoic Neoselachian Success and Resilience. Biology, 14, 142. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology14020142

2024
Schade, M., Deutschmann, A., Foth, C., Paetzel, C., Püttmann, T., Kenzler, M., Stumpf, S. 2024. The long and icy journey of Mesozoic marine reptile vertebrae from northern Germany, their provenance and internal structures. Palaeontologia Electronica, 27, a33. https://doi.org/10.26879/1313

Jambura, P.L., Solonin, S.V., Cooper, S.L.A., Mychko, E.V., Arkhangelsky, M.S., Türtscher, J., Amadori, M., Stumpf, S., Vodorezov, A.V. & J. Kriwet. 2024. Fossil marine vertebrates (Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii, Reptilia) from the Late Cretaceous of Akkermanovka (Orenburg Oblast, Southern Urals, Russia). Cretaceous Research, 155, 105779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105779

2023
López-Romero, F.A., Stumpf, S., Kamminga, P., Böhmer, C., Pradel, A., Brazeau, M.D., Kriwet, J. 2023. Shark mandible evolution reveals patterns of trophic and habitat-mediated diversification. Communications Biology, 6, 496. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04882-3

Stumpf, S., Kettler, C., Kindlimann, R., Cuny, G., Kriwet, J. 2023. The oldest Gondwanan record of the extinct durophagous chondrichthyan, Strophodus from the Bajocian of Morocco. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 142, 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00270-w

Villalobos-Segura, E., Stumpf, S., Türtscher, J., Jambura, P.L., Begat, A., López-Romero, F.A., Fischer, J., Kriwet, J. 2023. A synoptic review of the cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of southern Germany: taxonomy, diversity and faunal relationships. Diversity, 15, 386. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030386

Jambura, P.L., Villalobos-Segura, E., Türtscher, J., Begat, A., Staggl, M.A., Stumpf, S., Kindlimann, R., Klug, S., Lacombat, F., Pohl, B., Maisey, J.G., Naylor, G.J.P., Kriwet, J. 2023. Systematics and phylogenetic interrelationships of the enigmatic Late Jurassic shark Protospinax annectans Woodward, 1918 with comments on the shark–ray sister group relationship. Diversity, 15, 311. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030311

2022
Schade, M., Knötschke, N., Hörnig, M.K., Paetzel, C., Stumpf, S. 2022. Neurovascular anatomy of dwarf dinosaur implies precociality in sauropods. eLife 11, e82190.  https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82190

Stumpf, S., Meng, S., Kriwet, J. 2022. Diversity patterns of Late Jurassic chondrichthyans: New insights from a historically collected hybodontiform tooth assemblage from Poland. Diversity, 14, 85. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14020085

Schade, M., Stumpf, S., Kriwet, J., Kettler, C., Paff, C. 2022. Neuroanatomy of the nodosaurid Struthiosaurus austriacus (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) supports potential ecological differentiations within Ankylosauria. Scientific Reports, 12, 144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03599-9

2021
Feichtinger, I., Ivanov, A.O., Winkler, V., Dojen, C., Kindlimann, R., Kriwet, J., Pfaff, C., Schraut, G., Stumpf, S. 2021. Scarce ctenacanthiform sharks from the Mississippian of Austria with an analysis of Carboniferous elasmobranch diversity in response to climatic and environmental changes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41, e1925902. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1925902

Stumpf, S., Etches, S., Underwood, C.J., Kriwet, J. 2021. Durnonovariaodus maiseyi gen. et sp. nov., a new hybodontiform shark-like chondrichthyan from the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation of England. PeerJ, 9, e11362.  https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11362 

Jambura, P.L., Stumpf, S., Kriwet, J. 2021. Skeletal remains of the oldest known pseudocoracid shark Pseudocorax kindlimanni sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon. Cretaceous Research, 125, 104842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104842

Villalobos-Segura, E., Kriwet, J., Vullo, R., Stumpf, S., Ward, D.J., Underwood, C.J. 2021. The skeletal remains of the euryhaline sclerorhynchid batoid Onchopristis (Elasmobranchii, Batoidea) from the ‘mid’ Cretaceous and its palaeontological implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 193, 746–771.  https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa166

Stumpf, S., López-Romero, F.A., Kindlimann, R., Kriwet, J. 2021. A unique hybodontiform skeleton provides novel insights into Mesozoic chondrichthyan life. Papers in Palaeontology, 7, 1479–1505. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1350

Thies, D., Stevens, K., Stumpf, S. 2021. Stomach contents of the Early Jurassic fish †Lepidotes Agassiz, 1832 (Actinopterygii, Lepisosteiformes) and their palaeoecological implications. Historical Biology, 33, 868–879. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1665040

2020
López-Romero, F.A., Stumpf, S., Paff, C., Marramà, G., Johanson, Z., Kriwet, J. 2020. Evolutionary trends of the conserved neurocranium shape in angel sharks (Squatini¬formes, Elasmobranchii). Scientific Reports, 10, 12582.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69525-7 

Jambura, P.L., Türtscher, J., Kindlimann, R., Metscher, B., Pfaff, C., Stumpf, S., Weber, G., Kriwet, J. 2020. Evolutionary trajectories of tooth histology patterns in modern sharks (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii). Journal of Morphology, 236, 753–771. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13145

Jambura, P.L., Kindlimann, R., López-Romero, F.A., R., Marramà, G., Pfaff, C., Stumpf, S., Türtscher, J., Underwood, C.J., Ward, D.J., Kriwet, J. 2019. Micro-computed tomography imaging reveals the development of a unique tooth mineralization pattern in mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes) in deep time. Scientific Reports, 9, 9652, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46081-3

2019
Stumpf, S., Kriwet, J. 2019. A new Pliensbachian elasmobranch (Vertebrata, Chondrichthyes) assemblage from Europe, and its contribution to the understanding of late Early Jurassic elasmobranch diversity and distributional patterns. PalZ, 93, 637–658. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-019-00451-4 

Stumpf, S., Scheer, U., Kriwet, J. 2019. A new genus and species of extinct ground sharks, †Diprosopovenator hilperti gen. et. sp. nov. (Carcharhiniformes, †Pseudoscyliorhinidae fam. nov.), from the Late Cretaceous of Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39, e1593185. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1593185

2017
Stumpf, S., J. Ansorge, C. Pfaff, Kriwet, J. 2017. Early Jurassic diversification of pycnodontiform fishes (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) after the end-Triassic extinction event: Evidence from a new genus and species, Grimmenodon aureum. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 37, e1344679. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2017.1344679 

Maxwell, E.E., Stumpf, S. 2017. Revision of Saurorhynchus (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from the Early Jurassic of England and Germany. European Journal of Taxonomy, 321, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.321 

Konwert, M., Stumpf, S. 2017. Exceptionally preserved Leptolepidae (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) from the late Early Jurassic Fossil-Lagerstätten of Grimmen and Dobbertin (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). Zootaxa, 4243, 249–296. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4243.2.2

2016
Stumpf, S. 2016. New information on the marine reptile fauna from the lower Toarcian (Early Jurassic) "Green Series" of North-Eastern Germany. Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 280, 87–105. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2016/0567

2015
Stumpf, S., J. Ansorge, Krempien, W. 2015. Gravisaurian sauropod remains from the late Early Jurassic (Lower Toarcian) of North-Eastern Germany. Geobios, 48, 271–279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2015.04.001