Ervins LUKSEVICS

 Born: November 19, 1955, Riga, Latvia

• Vertebrate palaeontology: morphology, palaeoecology, palaeogeography, biostratigraphy of the Devonian fishes and tetrapods
• Origin of tetrapods
• Stratigraphy of the Devonian
• Jurassic molluscs from the Baltic area
• Ichnology (Devonian trace fossils)

Education

• University of Latvia (Faculty of Biology), 1979
• Dr.geol., University of Latvia (Faculty of Geographical and Earth Sciences), 1996

Career/Employment

• Guide, Natural History Museum of Latvia, 1979-1980
• Head of Department of Taxidermy, Natural History Museum of Latvia, 1980-1982
• Head of Department of Collections, Natural History Museum of Latvia, 1982-1986
• Chief Curator, Natural History Museum of Latvia, 1986-1998

University of Latvia

• Researcher, Institute of Geology, 1996-1998
• Senior Researcher, Institute of Geology, 1998-2008
• Head of Department of Geology, Faculty of Geographical and Earth Sciences, 1998-2005
• Director, Institute of Geology, 2002-2008
• Assistant Professor (Docent), Faculty of Geographical and Earth Sciences, 1996-2001
• Chairman of Bedrock Geology, Faculty of Geographical and Earth Sciences, 2005-
• Associated Professor, Faculty of Geographical and Earth Sciences, 2001-2007
• Professor, Faculty of Geographical and Earth Sciences, 2007-

Professional Activities and Membership

International:

• Corresponding Member of the Subcommission on the Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS), International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), 1993 -
• Vice-chairman of the Baltic Stratigraphical Association ex officio, 1999 -
• Member of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO), International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), 2006 -
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal "Geologija", Luthuanian Academy of Sciences Publishers, 2006 -
• Member of Palaeontological Society, Russia, 1985 -
• Corresponding Member of the International Paleontological Association (IPA), 2008 -

National:

• Member of Faculty Board, University of Latvia, 1998 -
• Chairman, Latvian Stratigraphical Commission, 1996 -
• Member, Tutorial Board of Study Programs in Geology, 2000 -
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Series in Earth and Environmental Sciences of Acta Universitatis Latviensis, 2002 -

Lectures

• Number of contributions (abstracts) to international scientific congresses, meetings and symposia: 40
• Number of contributions (abstracts) to national scientific meetings: 26
• Origin and early evolution of tetrapods. - University of S.-Petersburg, Russia, December, 2004.
• General aspects of studies of fossil vertebrates. - University of Tartu, Estonia, October 13, 2007.
• Fossils fishes. - University of Tartu, Estonia, October 14, 2007.
• Origin and early evolution of tetrapods. - University of Tartu, Estonia, October 15, 2007.
• Origin and early evolution of tetrapods. - Vilnius University, Lithuania, April 16,   2009.

   

Courses

• Palaeontology and Stratigraphy
• Evolution of the Earth
• History of the Earth
• Phylogeny of Living Forms
• Micropalaeontology
• Stratigraphy
• Palaeogeographic Reconstructions

Recent/Representative Publications

Total number of publications - 134

Scientific publications:

• Lukševics E., Lebedev O.A., Zakharenko G.V. 2010. Palaeozoogeographic zonation of the Middle-Late Devonian vertebrate communities of the Baltica Province. Part I. Emsian-Givetian. Palaeoworld 19: 94–107.
• Lebedev O.A., Lukševics E., Zakharenko G.V. 2010. Palaeozoogeographic connections of the Devonian vertebrate communities of the Baltica Province. Part II. Late Devonian. Palaeoworld 19: 108–128.
• Lukševics E., Lebedev O., Mark-Kurik E., Karatajute-Talimaa V. 2009. The earliest evidence of host-parasite interactions in vertebrates. – Acta Zoologica (Stockholm), 90 (Supplement 1): 335-343.
• Lebedev O.A., Mark-Kurik E., Karatajute-Talimaa V.N., Lukševics E., Ivanov A. 2009. Bite marks as evidence of predation in early vertebrates. – Acta Zoologica (Stockholm), 90 (Supplement 1): 344-356.
• Ahlberg P.E., Clack J.A., Lukševics E., Blom H. & Zupinš I. 2008. Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology. – Nature 453: 1199-1204.
• Blieck, A., Clément, G., Blom, H., Lelièvre, H., Lukševics, E., Streel, M., Thorez, J. & Young, G.C. 2007. The biostratigraphical and palaeogeographical framework of the earliest diversification of tetrapods (Late Devonian). – In : Becker, R.T. & Kirchgasser, W.T. (eds.), Devonian Events and Correlations. Geol. Soc., London, Spec. Publ. 278 : 219-235.
• Ukkonen, P., Lõugas, L., Zagorska, I., Lukševica, L., Lukševics, E., Daugnora, L. & Jungner, H. 2006. History of the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in eastern Baltic region and its implications for the origin and immigration routes of the recent northern European wild reindeer populations. – Boreas 35: 222-230.
• Ivanov A., Lukševics E., Stinkulis G., Tovmasjan K., Zupinš I., Beznosov P. 2006. Stratigrafiya devonskih otlozheniy Andomskoy gory. - Problemy Geologii i Mineralogii. Syktyvkar. 385-396.
• Lukševics E., Zupinš I. 2004. Sedimentology, fauna, and taphonomy of the Pavari site, Late Devonian of Latvia. – Latvijas Universitates Raksti, ser. Zemes un Vides zinatnes, 679: 99-119.
• Lukševics E. 2001. The orbito-nasal area of Asterolepis ornata, a Middle Devonian placoderm fish. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21 (4): 687-692.
• Lukševics E. 2001. Bothriolepid antiarchs (Vertebrata, Placodermi) from the Devonian of the north-western part of the East European Platform. – Geodiversitas, 23 (4): 489-609.
• Esin D., Ginter M., Ivanov A., Lebedev O., Luksevics E., Avkhimovich V., Golubtsov V. & Petukhova L. 2000. Vertebrate correlation of the Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous on the East European Platform. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 223: 341-359.
• Forey, P. L., Ahlberg, P. E., Lukševics, E. & Zupinš, I. 2000. A new coelacanth from the Middle Devonian of Latvia. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20 (2): 243-252.
• Ahlberg P. E., Lukševics E., Mark-Kurik E. 2000. A near-tetrapod from the Baltic Middle Devonian. – Palaeontology, 43 (3): 533-548.
• Luksevics E., Sorokin V. 1999. A new species of Bothriolepis (Placodermi, Antiarcha) from the Upper Devonian of North Timan. – Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal, 4: 77-82.
• Lukševics E. 1999. Stratigraphic occurrence of vertebrate remains in the Upper Devonian of Severnaya Zemlya (Russia). – Acta Geologica Polonica, 49 (2): 125-131.
• Ahlberg P.E., Clack J.A., Lukševics E. 1996. Rapid braincase evolution between Panderichthys and the earliest tetrapods. - Nature, 381 (6577): 61-64.
• Ivanov A., Lukševics E., Upeniece I. 1996. The squamous part of an Asterolepid body. – Modern Geology, 20: 399-410.
• Ahlberg P.E., Lukševics E., Lebedev O. 1994. The first tetrapod finds from the Devonian (Upper Famennian) of Latvia. – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 343: 303-328.

Some abstracts of international conferences:

• Ahlberg, P.E., Beznosov, P., Luksevics, E. & Clack, J.A. 2010. A primitive Devonian tetrapod from the lower Famennian of South Timan, Russia. In: 3rd International Palaeontological Congress, London, June 28 – July 3 2010: 66.
• Lukševics E., Beznosov P.A., Majdl’ T.V., Ahlberg P.E. and Stinkulis G. 2010. Taphonomy of a Late Devonian vertebrate assemblage from Izhma River site, Sosnogorsk Formation, South Timan, Russia. In: 3rd International Palaeontological Congress, London, June 28 – July 3 2010: 255.
• Lukševics E., Ivanov A. 2009. Devonian vertebrate assemblages and elpistostegid-tetrapod diversity in the Baltic palaeozoogeographic province. – Pipik R.K., Sotak J., Stanova S. (eds) 10th Anniversary Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Paleontologists “Fossils. Darwin. Evolution.”, October 13-15, 2009, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic. Pp. 31-32.
• Lukševics E., Mikulád R., Ivanov A., Zupinš I. 2008. Devonian trace fossils from the Andoma Hill (Onega Lake, Russia). – In: Hints, O., Ainsaar, L., Männik, P. and Meidla, T. (eds). -The Seventh Baltic Stratigraphical Conference. Abstract and Field Guide. Geological Society of Estonia, Tallinn, p. 43.
• Lukševics E., Stinkulis G. 2008. Sea-level changes, events and stratigraphy of the Upper Devonian of Latvia. – In: Hints, O., Ainsaar, L., Männik, P. and Meidla, T. (eds). - The Seventh Baltic Stratigraphical Conference. Abstract and Field Guide. Geological Society of Estonia, Tallinn, p. 44.
• Lukševics E., Ivanov A. 2006. Juveniles of the Late Devonian placoderm fishes from the Andoma Hill (Onega Lake, Russia). – In: Ancient Life and Modern Approaches. Abstracts of the Second International Palaeontological Congress. University of Science and Technology of China Press, Hefei. 336-337 pp.
• Lukševics E. 2005. Preliminary report on antiarchan fishes from the Andoma Hill (Russia). – In: Hairapetyan V., Ginter M. Devonian Vertebrates of the Continental Margins. Ichthyolith Issues Special Publication 8: 20. (Yerevan, Armenia, May 22-27, 2005).
• Ahlberg P. E., Luksevics E. 2004. New light on the Devonian tetrapod Ventastega curonica. – Abstracts of the 9^th Symposium on early vertebrates/lower vertebrates, Gramado, Brazilia. 10.
• Lukševics E., Zupinš I. 2003. Taphonomic studies of the Devonian fish and tetrapod fossils from the Pavari site (Latvia). - Ichthyolith Issues Spec. Publ. 7. The Gross Symposium 2: Advances in Palaeoichthyology. 37-38.
• Lukševics E. 2000. The orbito-nasal area of antiarchs. – In: Elliott D., Johnson H. (eds) Early Vertebrates/ Lower Vertebrates, Flagstaff, Arizona, May 16^th-19^th, 2000. Abstracts. Flagstaff. 14 p.
• Lukševics E. 1999. Placoderm fish Bothriolepis: too many species? – Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution: Palaeontology, Phylogeny and Development. A joint Systematics Association/Natural History Museum meeting, 8-9 April 1999. Abstracts. London. P. 47-48.

Research Projects:  

International:

• CNRS (France) and Palaeontological Institute of RAS (Moscow) project „Origin, ecology, and environments of the earliest tetrapods from the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) and palaeogeography in the eastern Old Red Sandstone continent” (2010, participant)
• IUGS IGCP Project 491 Project “Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biogeography, Palaeogeography, and Climate” (2003-2006, national co-ordinator)
• EU 5^th FTP Project “BioCASE: Biological Collections Access Service for Europe” (2001-2004, national co-ordinator)
• NATO Scientific Council project LG 961235 "Correlation of the Middle-Upper Devonian of Great Britain and Baltic region by vertebrates" (1997-1999, participant)
• IUGS IGCP Project 406 “Circum-Arctic Lower-Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy” (1996-2000, national co-ordinator)
• IUGS IGCP Project 328 “Palaeozoic Microvertebrate Biochronology and Marine - Non-Marine Global Correlation” (1991-1996)

National:

• Reconstruction of the Late Givetian – Early Frasnian biota of the Main Devonian Field. Project No. 01.0089 of the Latvian Council of Sciences (1999-2001)
• Studies of the Devonian vertebrates from Baltic in palaeogeographical and palaeoecological aspects of evolution of early tetrapods. Project No. 02.0871 of the Latvian Council of Sciences (2002-2004)
• Palaeogeography and evolution of environment of the Baltic paleobasin in the Middle Palaeozoic. Project No. 05.1506 of the Latvian Council of Sciences (2005-2008)

Organization of International Meetings

• The Ninth International Marine Geological Conference “The Baltic Sea Geology”, Jurmala, August 27 – September 3, 2006, Chairman of the Organising Committee.
• IUGS INHIGEO Conference “History of Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology”, July 29 – August 4, 2006, Member of the Organising Committee
• The Second International Gross Symposium: Advances in Palaeoichthyology, Riga, September 7-14, 2003, Chairman of the Organising Committee.
• The Fourth Baltic Stratigraphical Conference “Problems and Methods of Modern Regional Stratigraphy”, Jurmala, September 27 – October 1, 1999, Chairman of the Organising Committee.

Last update 25.01.2011