Associate Professor Dr Leyla Jean Seyfullah
Department of Palaeontology

Postal address:
Josef-Holaubek Platz 2 (UZA II),
1090 Vienna,
Austria

Email: leyla.seyfullah@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-53502

University of Vienna career to date

I am a tenured Associate Professor in Palaeobotany (since October 2024) having joined the University in October 2018 as a tenure track Assistant-Professor. I was awarded my Habilitation in Geobiology from the University of Vienna in 2020.

Research interests

I am interested in plant and ecosystem evolution. I am fascinated by plant diversity and structure, from anatomy to gross morphology. Understanding the interaction between the biosphere and the geosphere is key in deep time. I am particularly interested in the origination, diversity and strutures of plant defences and exudates like gum, mucilage and resin and how these may become fossilised (amber in particular is one of my specialities). I am curious as to what they can tell us about past ecosystems and potentially the effects of a warming climate on today's plants.

People in my group

2025 OeAD funded visiting fellow Agbulut Bora (Jurassic palynology)

2025 Masters students for the FWF funded NORAMBER project: Konstantinos Kotsabas, Isolde Berger (co-supervisor Katharina Halbwidl)

PhD student 2024-2027: Katharina Halbwidl (FWF funded NORAMBER project)

Masters student 2024: Pia Balaka

Post-doc group member 2022-2024: Dr Mario Coiro (FWF funded CoPI project)

Masters students 2023: Sebastian Ley (Terpene synthesis), Daniel Neiva (experimental taphonomy), Eric Neumueller (anatomy of secretory structures), students co-superisor Dr Mario Coiro

Masters student 2022: Katharina Halbwidl Masters student (Dominican amber)

PhD student 2019 and group member working on plant exudates: Emily A. Roberts (co-supervised PhD with Universty of Portsmouth)

Projects

NORAMBER

Seyfullah, L. J.

1/08/24 → 31/07/27

The birth of the modern world: understanding the evolutionary

Coiro, M. & Seyfullah, L. J.

1/10/21 → 30/09/23

Activities

Töchtertag 2025

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

24 Apr 2025

Kinder Uni Wien 2024

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Participant)

8 Jul 2024

Why is the Cretaceous rich in amber, but not the Jurassic?

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

27 May 2024 → 31 May 2024

Töchtertag 2024 Amber studies

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

25 Apr 2024

Museo Paleontológico EgidioFeruglio

Mario Coiro (Visiting researcher) & Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Visiting researcher)

21 Jan 2024 → 10 Feb 2024

Kinder Uni Wien 2023

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Participant)

10 Jul 2023

Stuck in time - the world inside amber

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

10 Jul 2023 → 21 Jul 2023

The mystery of the Eucommidites plant - a previously hidden amber source plant

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

22 May 2023 → 26 May 2023

Natural History Museum London

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Visiting researcher) & Mario Coiro (Visiting researcher)

17 Apr 2023 → 29 Apr 2023

Swedish Museum of Natural History

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Visiting researcher)

28 Nov 2022 → 3 Dec 2022

Experimental induction of resins as a tool to understand variability in ambers

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

19 Jun 2022 → 22 Jun 2022

SEM re-investigation of angiosperm pollen from the Lower Cretaceous Cascata section of the Araripe basin (NE Brazil)

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

19 Jun 2022 → 22 Jun 2022

The rediscovery of Early Eocene amber from Belgium

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

19 Jun 2022 → 23 Jun 2022

Amber as a source of fossil fungi

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

1 Jun 2022

Pint of Science- tales from the 50 million year old amber forest

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker) & Doris Nagel (Speaker)

11 May 2022

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Visiting researcher)

8 Dec 2019 → 13 Dec 2019

Amber observations and modern resin experiments

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Keynote speaker)

26 Oct 2019

Investigating the diversity of amber source plants from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil.

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

23 Oct 2019

Amber: Stuck in time? Current and future horizons

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

5 Jun 2019

Experimenting with resins.

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

9 Apr 2019

Ambers: past, present and future

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Invited speaker)

7 Dec 2018

Amber and the araucarian forests of New Zealand

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

15 Aug 2018

10th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Organiser), Jacopo Dal Corso (Organiser) & Guido Roghi (Organiser)

15 Aug 2018

A world full of amber

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Keynote speaker)

13 Aug 2018

Ambers and resins: past and future

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Keynote speaker)

9 Aug 2018

Does amber have potential for palaeoclimate reconstruction?

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

25 Nov 2017

Preserved in amber? Attempting palaeoclimate reconstruction.

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

8 Nov 2017

Marine microorganisms as amber inclusions: actuo-palaeontological data from the littoral forests of New Caledonia

Alexander R Schmidt (Contributor), Dennis Grabow (Contributor), Christina Beimforde (Contributor), Vincent Perrichot (Contributor), Jouko Rikkinen (Contributor), Simona Saint Martin (Contributor), Volker Thiel (Contributor) & Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Contributor)

Nov 2017

Palaeontology (Journal)

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Editor)

2017 → 2020

Looking up in the ‘Baltic amber forest’: the presence and implications of Eocene dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium). Linnean Society Palaeobotany specialist group meeting.

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

23 Nov 2016

The amber world

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Invited speaker)

12 Mar 2016

Publications

Disparity of cycad leaves dispels the living fossil metaphor

Coiro, M. & Seyfullah, L. J., Dec 2024, In: Communications Biology. 7, 1, p. 328 328.

Detection of in situ resinous traces in Jurassic conifers from floras lacking amber

Seyfullah, L. J., Coiro, M., Vadja, V., McLoughlin, S. & Steinhorsdottir, M., 18 Nov 2024, In: Fossil Imprint. 80, 1, p. 68-76 9 p.

Chemical and palaeoentomological evidence of a relationship between early Eocene Belgian and Oise (France) ambers

Seyfullah, L. J., Szwedo, J., Schmidt, A. R. & Prestianni, C., Jun 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 13705.

Parallel evolution of angiosperm-like venation in Peltaspermales: a reinvestigation of Furcula

Coiro, M., McLoughlin, S., Steinhorsdottir, M., Vadja, V., Fabricant, D. & Seyfullah, L. J., Jun 2024, In: New Phytologist. 242, 6, p. 2845-2856 12 p.

Reconciling fossils with phylogenies reveals the origin and macroevolutionary processes explaining the global cycad biodiversity

Coiro, M., Allio, R., Mazet, N., Seyfullah, L. J. & Condamine, F. L., Nov 2023, In: New Phytologist. 240, 4, p. 1616-1635 20 p.

State of the World's Plants and Fungi, 2023.

Antonelli, A., Fry, C., Smith, R. J., Eden, J., Govaerts, R. H. A., Kersey, P., Nic Lughadha, E., Onstein, R. E., Simmonds, M. S. J., Zizka, A., Ackerman, J. D., Adams, V. M., Ainsworth, A. M., Albouy, C., Allen, A. P., Allen, S. P., Allio, R., Auld, T. D., Bachman, S. P., Baker, W. J., & 166 othersBarrett, R. L., Beaulieu, J. M., Bellot, S., Black, N., Boehnisch, G., Bogarín, D., Boyko, J. D., Brown, M. J. M., Budden, A., Bureš, P., Butt, N., Cabral, A., Cai, L., Aguilar-Cano, J., Chang, Y., Charitonidou, M., Chau, J. H., Cheek, M., Chomicki, G., Coiro, M., Colli-Silva, M., Condamine, F. L., Crayn, D. M., Cribb, P., Cuervo-Robayo, A. P., Dahlberg, A., Deklerck, V., Denelle, P., Dhanjal-Adams, K. L., Druzhinina, I., Eiserhardt, W. L., Elliott, T. L., Enquist, B. J., Escudero, M., Espinosa-Ruiz, S., Fay, M. F., Fernández, M., Flanagan, N. S., Forest, F., Fowler, R. M., Freiberg, M., Gallagher, R. V., Gaya, E., Gehrke, B., Gelwick, K., Grace, O. M., Granados Mendoza, C., Grenié, M., Groom, Q. J., Hackel, J., Hagen, E. R., Hágsater, E., Halley, J. M., Hu, A-Q., Jaramillo, C., Kattge, J., Keith, D. A., Kirk, P., Kissling, W. D., Knapp, S., Kreft, H., Kuhnhäuser, B. G., Larridon, I., Leão, T. C. C., Leitch, I. J., Liimatainen, K., Lim, J. Y., Lucas, E., Lücking, R., Luján, M., Luo, W., Magallón, S., Maitner, B., Márquez-Corro, J. I., Martín-Bravo, S., Martins-Cunha, K., Mashau, A. C., Mauad, A. V., Maurin, O., Medina Lemos, R., Merow, C., Michelangeli, F. A., Mifsud, J. C. O., Mikryukov, V., Moat, J., Monro, A. K., Muasya, A. M., Mueller, G. M., Muellner-Riehl, A. N., Nargar, K., Negrão, R., Nicolson, N., Niskanen, T., Oliveira Andrino, C., Olmstead, R. G., Ondo, I., Oses, L., Parra-Sánchez, E., Paton, A. J., Pellicer, J., Pellissier, L., Pennington, T. D., Pérez-Escobar, O. A., Phillips, C., Pironon, S., Possingham, H., Prance, G., Przelomska, N. A. S., Ramírez-Barahona, S. A., Renner, S. S., Rincon, M., Rivers, M. C., Rojas Andrés, B. M., Romero-Soler, K. J., Roque, N., Rzedowski, J., Sanmartín, I., Santamaría-Aguilar, D., Schellenberger Costa, D., Serpell, E., Seyfullah, L. J., Shah, T., Shen, X., Silvestro, D., Simpson, D. A., Šmarda, P., Šmerda, J., Smidt, E., Smith, S. A., Solano-Gomez, R., Sothers, C., Soto Gomez, M., Spalink, D., Sperotto, P., Sun, M., Suz, L. M., Svenning, J-C., Taylor, A., Tedersoo, L., Tietje, M., Trekels, M., Tremblay, R. L., Turner, R., Vasconcelos, T., Veselý, P., Villanueva, B. S., Villaverde, T., Vorontsova, M. S., Walker, B. E., Wang, Z., Watson, M., Weigelt, P., Wenk, E. H., Westrip, J. R. S., Wilkinson, T., Willett, S. D., Wilson, K. L., Winter, M., Wirth, C., Wölke, F. J. R., Wright, I. J., Zedek, F., Zhigila, D. A., Zimmermann, N. E., Zuluaga, A. & Zuntini, A. R., 10 Oct 2023, Kew, UK: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 90 p.

In situ pollen diversity in the relict conifer Wollemia nobilis

Seyfullah, L. J., Coiro, M. & Hofmann, C. C., Feb 2023, In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 309, 104816.

Cutting the long branches: Consilience as a path to unearth the evolutionary history of Gnetales

Coiro, M., Roberts, E. A., Hofmann, C-C. & Seyfullah, L. J., 14 Dec 2022, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10, 15 p., 1082639.

An Exceptionally Preserved Terrestrial Record of LIP Effects on Plants in the Carnian (Upper Triassic) Amber-Bearing Section of the Dolomites, Italy

Roghi, G., Gianolla, P., Kustatscher, E., Schmidt, A. R. & Seyfullah, L. J., 11 Jul 2022, In: Frontiers in Earth Science. 10, 900586.

Fossil evidence of lichen grazing from Palaeogene amber

Seyfullah, L. J., Jul 2022, In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 302, 10 p., 104664.

Uncovering the natural variability of araucariacean exudates from ex situ and in situ tree populations in New Caledonia using FTIR spectroscopy

Seyfullah, L. J., 25 May 2022, In: PeerJ Analytical Chemistry. 4, 25 p., e17.

Diversity of the dispersed Gnetalean pollen record from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil: entomophily, harmomegathy and habitat heterogeneity

Hofmann, C-C., Roberts, E. A. & Seyfullah, L. J., Jan 2022, In: Cretaceous Research. 129, 20 p., 105020.

Was the kateretid beetle Pelretes really a Cretaceous angiosperm pollinator?

Bao, T., Grimsson, F., Beutel, R. G., Wedmann, S., Seyfullah, L., Bao, L. & Jarzembowski, E. A., Jan 2022, In: Nature Plants. 8, 1, p. 38–40 3 p.

Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 2: How to measure and analyse past plant biodiversity

Pardoe, H. S., Cleal, C. J., Berry, C. M., Cascales-Miñana, B., Davies, B. A. S., Diez, J. B., Giesecke, T., Filipova-Marinova, M. V., Hilton, J., Ivanov, D., Kustatscher, E., Leroy, S. A. G., McElwain, J. C., Opluštil, S., Popa, M. E., Seyfullah, L. J., Stolle, E., Thomas, B., Uhl, D. & Hilton, J., 15 Oct 2021, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 580, 26 p., 110618.

Experimental induction of resins as a tool to understand variability in ambers

Seyfullah, L. J., Roberts, E. A., Jardine, P. E. & Schmidt, A. R., 11 Oct 2021, In: Fossil record. 24, 2, p. 321-337 17 p.

Conservation, preparation and imaging of diverse ambers and their inclusions

Sadowski, E. M., Schmidt, A. R., Seyfullah, L. J., Solórzano-Kraemer, M. M., Neumann, C., Perrichot, V., Hamann, C., Milke, R. & Nascimbene, P. C., Sept 2021, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 220, 24 p., 103653.

Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?

Ancient noeggerathialean reveals the seed plant sister group diversified alongside the primary seed plant radiation

Wang, J., Hilton, J., Pfefferkorn, H. W., Wang, S., Zhang, Y., Bek, J., Pšenička, J., Seyfullah, L. J. & Dilcher, D., 16 Mar 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118, 11, p. 1-7 7 p., e2013442118.

Lower Cretaceous Crato clay samples revisited: some new results from scanning electron microscope investigations of Afropollis pollen

Hofmann, C. C. & Seyfullah, L. J., 2021, In: Grana. 60, 3, p. 161-172 12 p.

The occurrence of Pollen of Sciaadopityaceae Luerss. through time.

Hofmann, C., Nyamsambuu, O. & Seyfullah, L. J., 2021, In: Fossil Imprint. 77, p. 271-281

Selaginella was hyperdiverse already in the Cretaceous

Schmidt, A. R., Regalado, L., Weststrand, S., Korall, P., Sadowski, E. M., Schneider, H., Jansen, E., Bechteler, J., Krings, M., Müller, P., Wang, B., Wang, X., Rikkinen, J. & Seyfullah, L. J., Nov 2020, In: New Phytologist. 228, 4, p. 1176-1182 7 p.

Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

Corso, J. D., Bernardi, M., Sun, Y., Song, H., Seyfullah, L. J., Preto, N., Gianolla, P., Ruffell, A., Kustatscher, E., Roghi, G., Merico, A., Hohn, S., Schmidt, A. R., Marzoli, A., Newton, R. J., Wignall, P. B. & Benton, M. J., 16 Sept 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 38, p. 1-12 12 p.

Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil‑based scientific data”: Myanmar amber

Haug, J. T., Azar, D., Ross, A., Szwedo, J., Wang, B., Arillo, A., Baranov, V., Bechteler, J., Beutel, R., Blagoderov, V., Déclos, X., Dunlop, J., Feldberg, K., Feldmann, R., Foth, C., Fraaije, R. H. B., Gehler, A., Harms, D., Hedenäs, L., Hyžny, M., & 35 othersJagt, J. W. M., Jagt-Yazykova, E. A., Jarzembowski, E., Kerp, H., Khine, P. K., Kirejtshuk, A. G., Klug, C., Kopylov, D. S., Kotthoff, U., Kriwet, J., McKellar, R. C., Nel, A., Neumann, C., Nützel, A., Peñalver, E., Perrichot, V., Pint, A., Ragazzi, E., Regalado, L., Reich, M., Rikkinen, J., Sadowski, E-M., Schmidt, A. R., Schneider, H., Schram, F. R., Schweigert, G., Selden, P., Seyfullah, L. J., Solórzano-Kraemer, M. M., Stilwell, J. D., Bakel, B. W. M., Vega, F. J., Wang, Y., Xing, L. & Haug, C., Sept 2020, In: PalZ. 94, p. 431–437 7 p.

Revealing the diversity of amber source plants from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil

Seyfullah, L. J., Roberts, E. A., Schmidt, A. R., Ragazzi, E., Anderson, K. B., Rodrigues do Nascimento, D., Ferreira da Silva Filho, W. & Kunzmann, L., 20 Aug 2020, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20, 1, 22 p., 107.

Reinvestigating the fossil leaf Welwitschiophyllum brasiliense Dilcher et al. (2005), from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil

Roberts, E., Loveridge, R. F., Weiss, J., Seyfullah, L. J. & Martill, D. M., Aug 2020, In: Cretaceous Research. 112, 10 p., 104471.

The distribution of plant fossils and their palaeoecology in Duckmantian ( Bashkirian, Lower Pennsylvanian ) strata at Brymbo, North Wales, UK

Thomas, B. A., Appleton, P., Cleal, C. J. & Seyfullah, L. J., Apr 2020, In: Geological Journal. 55, 4, p. 3179-3207 29 p.

Cretaceous gnetalean yields first preserved plant gum

Roberts, E. A., Seyfullah, L. J., Loveridge, R. F., Garside, P. & Martill, D. M., 25 Feb 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, p. 3401 1 p., 3401.

Two new ant species (Formicidae: Dorylinae, Ponerinae) from New Caledonia

Ramage, T., Jouault, C., Schmidt, A., Seyfullah, L. J. & Perrichot, V., 13 Dec 2019, In: European Journal of Taxonomy. 589, 589, p. 1-14 14 p.

A comparison of Asturian lepidodendroid lycophytes from the USA and the Euramerican Variscan Front

Thomas, B. A., Jud, N. A. & Seyfullah, L. J., Oct 2019, In: Geobios. 56, p. 31-48 18 p.

Caspary's fungi from Baltic amber: historic specimens and new evidence

Kettunen, E., Sadowski, E-M., Seyfullah, L. J., Dörfelt, H., Rikkinen, J. & Schmidt, A. R., Aug 2019, In: Papers in Palaeontology. 5, 3, p. 365-389 25 p.

How diverse were ferns in the Baltic amber forest?

Sadowski, EM., Seyfullah, L. J., Regalado, L., Skadell, L. E., Gehler, A., Gröhn, C., Hoffeins, C., Hoffeins, H. W., Neumann, C., Schneider, H. & Schmidt, A. R., Jul 2019, In: Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 57, 4, p. 305-328 24 p.

The Carnian Pluvial Episode and the first global appearance of amber

Seyfullah, L. J., Roghi, G., Dal Corso, J. & Schmidt, A. R., Nov 2018, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 175, 6, p. 1012-1018 7 p.

Marine microorganisms as amber inclusions: insights from coastal forests of New Caledonia

Schmidt, A. R., Grabow, D., Beimforde, C., Perrichot, V., Rikkinen, J., Saint Martin, S., Thiel, V. & Seyfullah, L. J., 29 Aug 2018, In: Fossil record. 21, 2, p. 213-221 9 p.

Production and preservation of resins - past and present

Seyfullah, L. J., Beimforde, C., Dal Corso, J., Perrichot, V., Rikkinen, J. & Schmidt, A. R., Aug 2018, In: Biological Reviews. 93, 3, p. 1684-1714 31 p.

Amber inclusions from New Zealand

Schmidt, A. R., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Baranov, V., Beimforde, C., Bleile, N., Borkent, A., Busch, A., Conran, J. G., Engel, M. S., Harvey, M., Kennedy, E. M., Kerr, P. H., Kettunen, E., Kiecksee, A. P., Lengeling, F., Lindqvist, J. K., Maraun, M., Mildenhall, D. C., Perrichot, V., & 7 othersRikkinen, J., Sadowski, E-M., Seyfullah, L. J., Stebner, F., Szwedo, J., Ulbrich, P. & Lee, D. E., Apr 2018, In: Gondwana Research. 56, p. 135-146 12 p.

First workshop on the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic): a report.

Dal Corso, J., Benton, M. J., Bernardi, M., Mattias, F., Gianolla, P., Hohn, S., Kustatscher, E., Merico, A., Roghi, G., Ruffell, A., Ogg, J. G., Preto, N., Schmidt, A. R., Seyfullah, L. J., Simms, M. & Shi, Z., 2018, In: Albertiana. 44, p. 49-57

Parasitaxus parasitized: novel infestation of Parasitaxus usta (Podocarpaceae)

Seyfullah, L. J., Beimforde, C., Perrichot, V., Rikkinen, J. & Schmidt, A. R., Aug 2017, In: Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 11, 4, p. 507-514 8 p.

Resin exudation and resinicolous communities on Araucaria humboldtensis in New Caledonia

Beimforde, C., Seyfullah, L. J., Perrichot, V., Schmidt, K., Rikkinen, J. & Schmidt, A. R., Aug 2017, In: Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 11, 4, p. 495-505 11 p.

Diverse early dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium), ecological keystones of the Eocene Baltic amber biota

Sadowski, E-M., Seyfullah, L. J., Wilson, C. A., Calvin, C. L. & Schmidt, A. R., May 2017, In: American Journal of Botany: the journal for all plant biologists. 104, 5, p. 694-718 25 p.

Evaluating the use of amber in palaeoatmospheric reconstructions: The carbon-isotope variability of modern and Cretaceous conifer resins

Dal Corso, J., Schmidt, A. R., Seyfullah, L. J., Preto, N., Ragazzi, E., Jenkyns, H. C., Delclos, X., Neraudeau, D. & Roghi, G., 15 Feb 2017, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 199, p. 351-369 19 p.

Conifers from of the ‘Baltic amber forest’ and their palaeoecological significance.

Sadowski, E. M., Schmidt, A. R., Seyfullah, L. J. & Kunzmann, L., 2017, In: Stapfia. 106, p. 1-73 73 p.

Graminids from Eocene Baltic amber

Sadowski, E-M., Schmidt, A. R., Rudall, P. J., Simpson, D. A., Groehn, C., Wunderlich, J. & Seyfullah, L. J., Oct 2016, In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 233, p. 161-168 8 p.

Resinogalea humboldtensis gen. et sp. nov., a new resinicolous fungus from New Caledonia, placed in Bruceomycetaceae fam. nova (Ascomycota)

Rikkinen, J., Beimforde, C., Seyfullah, L. J., Perrichot, V., Schmidt, K. & Schmidt, A. R., Aug 2016, In: Annales botanici fennici. 53, 3-4, p. 205-215 11 p.

Microbe-like inclusions in tree resins and implications for the fossil record of protists in amber

Thiel, V., Lausmaa, J., Sjovall, P., Ragazzi, E., Seyfullah, L. J. & Schmidt, A. R., Jul 2016, In: Geobiology. 14, 4, p. 364-373 10 p.

Sciadopitys cladodes from Eocene Baltic amber

Sadowski, E-M., Schmidt, A. R., Kunzmann, L., Groehn, C. & Seyfullah, L. J., Feb 2016, In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 180, 2, p. 258-268 11 p.

Two new species of megasporangiate Sigillariostrobus Schimper (Sigillariostrobaceae) fructifications from the British Coal Measures

Thomas, B. A. & Seyfullah, L. J., 2016, In: Fossil record. 19, 1, p. 1-9 9 p.

Stigmaria Brongniart: a new specimen from Duckmantian (Lower Pennsylvanian) Brymbo (Wrexham, North Wales) together with a review of known casts and how they were preserved

Thomas, B. A. & Seyfullah, L. J., Sept 2015, In: Geological Magazine. 152, 5, p. 858-870 13 p.

Species-level determination of closely related araucarian resins using FTIR spectroscopy and its implications for the provenance of New Zealand amber

Seyfullah, L. J., Sadowski, E-M. & Schmidt, A. R., 2 Jul 2015, In: PeerJ. 3, 17 p., 1067.

Carnivorous leaves from Baltic amber

Sadowski, E-M., Seyfullah, L. J., Sadowski, F., Fleischmann, A., Behling, H. & Schmidt, A. R., 6 Jan 2015, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 112, 1, p. 190-195 6 p.

A new look at Lepidodendron ophiurus Brongniart and the recognition of L. wingfieldense sp nov (Flemingitaceae, Lepidodendrales) from the Langsettian (Bashkirian) of Derbyshire, East Midlands, UK

Thomas, B. A. & Seyfullah, L. J., Jan 2015, In: Palaeontographica. Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology. 292, 1-3, p. 23-32 10 p.

Lichen preservation in amber: morphology, ultrastructure, chemofossils, and taphonomic alteration

Hartl, C., Schmidt, A. R., Heinrichs, J., Seyfullah, L. J., Schaefer, N., Groehn, C., Rikkinen, J. & Kaasalainen, U., 2015, In: Fossil record. 18, 2, p. 127-135 9 p.

Estimating the Phanerozoic history of the Ascomycota lineages: Combining fossil and molecular data

Beimforde, C., Feldberg, K., Nylinder, S., Rikkinen, J., Tuovila, H., Doerfelt, H., Gube, M., Jackson, D. J., Reitner, J., Seyfullah, L. J. & Schmidt, A. R., Sept 2014, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 78, p. 386-398 13 p.

Chaenothecopsis neocaledonica sp nov. The first resinicolous mycocalicioid fungus from an araucarian conifer

Rikkinen, J., Tuovila, H., Beimforde, C., Seyfullah, L. J., Perrichot, V. & Schmidt, A. R., 20 Jun 2014, In: Phytotaxa. 173, 1, p. 49-60 12 p.

Hooked: Habits of the Chinese Permian gigantopterid Gigantonoclea

Seyfullah, L. J., Glasspool, I. J. & Hilton, J., 1 Apr 2014, In: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 83, p. 80-90 11 p.

The anatomically preserved stem Zhongmingella gen. nov from the Upper Permian of China: evaluating the early evolution and phylogeny of the Osmundales

Wang, S-J., Hilton, J., He, X-Y., Seyfullah, L. J. & Shao, L., 2 Jan 2014, In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12, 1, p. 1-22 22 p.

Amber fossils of sooty moulds

Schmidt, A. R., Beimforde, C., Seyfullah, L. J., Wege, S-E., Dorfelt, H., Girard, V., Grabenhorst, H., Gube, M., Heinrichs, J., Nel, A., Nel, P., Perrichot, V., Reitner, J. & Rikkinen, J., Jan 2014, In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 200, p. 53-64 12 p.

The first discovery of in situ Verrucosisporites applanatus spores from the Middle Triassic flora from Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, UK)

Seyfullah, L. J., Kustatscher, E. & Taylor, W. A., 15 Oct 2013, In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 197, p. 15-25 11 p.

The anamorphic genus Monotosporella (Ascomycota) from Eocene amber and from modern Agathis resin

Sadowski, E-M., Beimforde, C., Gube, M., Rikkinen, J., Singh, H., Seyfullah, L. J., Heinrichs, J., Nascimbene, P. C., Reitner, J. & Schmidt, A. R., Oct 2012, In: Fungal Biology. 116, 10, p. 1099-1110 12 p.

A re-examination of the unusual Carboniferous lycophyte species Halonia ichthyoderma Lesquereux (comb. nov.)

Thomas, B. A. & Seyfullah, L. J., 15 Aug 2012, In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 182, p. 14-19 6 p.

Pre-Cretaceous Agaricomycetes yet to be discovered: Reinvestigation of a putative Triassic bracket fungus from southern Germany

Kiecksee, A. P., Seyfullah, L. J., Doerfelt, H., Heinrichs, J., Suess, H. & Schmidt, A. R., Aug 2012, In: Fossil record. 15, 2, p. 85-89 5 p.

CALLISTOPHYTALEAN PTERIDOSPERMS FROM PERMIAN AGED FLORAS OF CHINA

Seyfullah, L. J. & Hilton, J., Mar 2011, In: Palaeontology. 54, p. 287-302 16 p.

Resolving the systematic and phylogenetic position of isolated ovules: a case study on a new genus from the Permian of China

Seyfullah, L. J., Hilton, J., Liang, M-M. & Wang, S-J., Sept 2010, In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 164, 1, p. 84-108 25 p.

Re-evaluation of Halle's fertile pteridosperms from the Permian floras of Shanxi Province, China

Seyfullah, L. J. & Hilton, J., May 2009, In: Plant Systematics and Evolution. 279, 1-4, p. 191-218 28 p.

ANATOMICALLY PRESERVED PTERIDOSPERM STEMS AND RACHISES FROM PERMIAN FLORAS OF CHINA

Seyfullah, L. J., Hilton, J., Wang, S-J. & Galtier, J., 2009, In: International Journal of Plant Sciences. 170, 6, p. 814-828 15 p.

Töchtertag 2025

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

24 Apr 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Why is the Cretaceous rich in amber, but not the Jurassic?

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

27 May 2024 → 31 May 2024

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Töchtertag 2024 Amber studies

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

25 Apr 2024

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Stuck in time - the world inside amber

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

10 Jul 2023 → 21 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

The mystery of the Eucommidites plant - a previously hidden amber source plant

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

22 May 2023 → 26 May 2023

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The rediscovery of Early Eocene amber from Belgium

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

19 Jun 2022 → 23 Jun 2022

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Amber as a source of fossil fungi

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

1 Jun 2022

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Pint of Science- tales from the 50 million year old amber forest

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker) & Doris Nagel (Speaker)

11 May 2022

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Amber observations and modern resin experiments

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Keynote speaker)

26 Oct 2019

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Investigating the diversity of amber source plants from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil.

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

23 Oct 2019

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Amber: Stuck in time? Current and future horizons

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

5 Jun 2019

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Experimenting with resins.

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

9 Apr 2019

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Ambers: past, present and future

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Invited speaker)

7 Dec 2018

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Amber and the araucarian forests of New Zealand

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

15 Aug 2018

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A world full of amber

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Keynote speaker)

13 Aug 2018

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Ambers and resins: past and future

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Keynote speaker)

9 Aug 2018

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Does amber have potential for palaeoclimate reconstruction?

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

25 Nov 2017

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Preserved in amber? Attempting palaeoclimate reconstruction.

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

8 Nov 2017

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Looking up in the ‘Baltic amber forest’: the presence and implications of Eocene dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium). Linnean Society Palaeobotany specialist group meeting.

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Speaker)

23 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The amber world

Leyla Jean Seyfullah (Invited speaker)

12 Mar 2016

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NORAMBER

Seyfullah, L. J.

1/08/24 → 31/07/27

Project: Research funding

The birth of the modern world: understanding the evolutionary

Coiro, M. & Seyfullah, L. J.

1/10/21 → 30/09/23

Project: Research funding

Department of Palaeontology

Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
1090 Wien
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