Atreus Wanner

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Wanneria walcottana (Wanner 1901)

Atreus Wanner (born September 26, 1852 in Washingtonville , Ohio , † June 2, 1938 in Lebanon , Pennsylvania ) was an American paleontologist .

Life

Wanner studied at Franklin and Marshall College and was a teacher (professor) in York County , Pennsylvania (and superintendent of the county's public schools). He was also an expert in local geology and archeology. He contributed to the elucidation of the stratigraphy of the Cambrian in Pennsylvania through the collection of Triassic fossils in York County and through his knowledge of local geology in collaboration with Charles Doolittle Walcott of the US Geological Survey (its director from 1894). Walcott was particularly interested in the Cambrian, and Wanner also focused on the Cambrian in the York Valley from the 1890s. Wanner later moved from York to Lebanon . His son Henry E. Wanner also studied and published Triassic fossils from Pennsylvania.

In 1889 he described dinosaur footprints from the Goldboro Triassic (one type of footprint was named after him Atreipus). The Atreipus-type footprints serve as a guide fossil as they only existed for around ten million years. They are ascribed to an early dinosaur Grallator (but previously under various other names). Dinosaur remnants from Pennsylvania were found in the New Oxford Formation and Gettysburg Formation of the Newark Supergroup of the Late Triassic and were first described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1878 (now attributed to the pseudosuchier Galtonia gibbidens ). At the same site (Le Cron's Copper Mine, near Emigsville ), Wanner also found further remains in 1898.

In 1900 he described fossil plant remains from the Triassic of York Haven with WM Fontaine (he bequeathed part of his collection to the Smithsonian in 1927). Fontaine named some of the newly discovered plant species after their finder Atreus Wanner and both have some initial descriptions. Walcott named a Cambrian brachiopod after Wanner ( Yorkia wanneri ). Wanner named an Olenellus species after Walcott and Walcott named the trilobite genus Wanneria . He also published on Indian relics from his homeland.

A school in York is named after him (opened in 1941).

In 1882 he married Clara Jane Eckert.

Fonts

  • with William Morris Fontaine: Triassic flora of York County, Pennsylvania, US Geological Survey Annual Report 20, 1900, pp. 233-255
  • The discovery of fossil tracks, algae, etc. in the Triassic of York County, Pennsylvania, Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for 1887, Part 2, pp. 21-35

literature

  • Ellis Yochelson , June Lloyd, G. Robert Ganis: A forgotten local geologist - Atreus Wanner of York, Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Geology, Volume 35, No. 1, 2005, PDF (704 kB; English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Social Security Death Index, according to Yochelson between 1937 and 1941
  2. ^ Henry Eckert Wanner, 1885-1957, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1909, professor of chemistry and geology at Lebanon Valley College
  3. ↑ P. Olsen, Donald Baird, The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for triassic biostratigraphy, in: Kevin Padian (Ed.) The beginning of the age of Dinosaurs, Cambridge University Press 1987, pp. 61-87
  4. ^ David Weishampel, Luther Young, Dinosaurs of the East Coast, Johns Hopkins University Press 1996
  5. ↑ Jeri Jones, Triassic Park - Dinosaurs of York and Adams counties, September 27, 2012, York Dispatch ( Memento of May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wanner, Atreus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Washingtonville , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1938
Place of death Lebanon , Pennsylvania