Bernhard Kummel

Bernhard Kummel (born August 13, 1919 , † 1980 ) was an American geologist and paleontologist.

Kummel was professor of geology at Harvard University from 1952 to 1980 and from 1963 curator for paleontology of invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. In 1955 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He was co-author of the Ammonite volume in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology in 1957 . In addition to ammonites, he also dealt with nautiloids . He published on ammonites and nautiloids from Pakistan, India, Nepal and Iran.

Fonts

History of the earth. An introduction to historical geology. Freeman, San Francisco 1961, 2nd edition 1970
Editor with David Raup : Handbook of Paleontological Techniques, Freeman 1965
Status of invertebrate paleontology, Cambridge, The Museum 1954, pp. 92-317
Editor with Curt Teichert : Stratigraphic boundary problems: Permian and Triassic of West Pakistan, University Press of Kansas 1970
with Curt Teichert: Permian-Triassic boundary in the Kap Stosch Area, East Greenland, Copenhagen 1976
The lower Triassic formations of the Salt Range and Trans-Indus Ranges, West Pakistan, Harvard, Cambridge 1966

personal data
SURNAME	Kummel, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1919
DATE OF DEATH	1980