Elmar PJ Heizmann

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Elmar Peter Jürgen Heizmann (born September 6, 1943 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German palaeontologist and zoologist who deals with mammals (especially cloven-hoofed animals and predators).

Life

Heizmann studied zoology, palaeontology and anatomy at the University of Basel with his doctorate in 1973. Even in his dissertation, he dealt with the discovery of Miocene mammals in Steinheim am Albuch (especially with predators). He was initially at the Natural History Museum in Basel and from 1975 at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart , where he was senior curator and from 2001 head of paleontology. He looks after the tertiary mammals there.

He led large-scale excavations in Ulm (Westtangente) and Langenau and he did research in North and South America, East Africa, Central Asia (Aktau Mountains Kazakhstan) and China. But above all, he deals with tertiary mammals in southern Germany.

In 2001 he described a 16 to 17 million year old tooth find of a hominid in Engelswies , which is similar to Griphopithecus and Kenyapithecus . This is the oldest hominid find in Europe to date.

Through his work in Steinheim, he was also involved in founding the Meteor Crater Museum in 1974. He chairs the Advisory Board of the Swabian Alb Geopark.

Fonts

  • Steinheim am Albuch. A Miocene meteor crater. In: Werner K. Weidert: Classical sites of paleontology. Volume 3, Goldschneck, 1995.
  • Editor: From the Black Forest to the Ries. Geological history of Central European regions. Pfeil, 1998 (in it with Winfried Reiff: Born from the catastrophe. The Steinheim basin ; with Franz Xaver Schmidt: Tertiary volcanism on the Swabian Alb and in Hegau and in Ulm and around Ulm. The northern edge of the Molasse basin ).
  • with DR Begun: The oldest Eurasian Hominoid. In: Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 41, 2001, pp. 463-481.
  • with Volker J. Sach: Stratigraphy and mammalian faunas of the brackish water molasses in the area of ​​Ulm (Southwest Germany) Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk., B, 310, 2001, 1-95
  • with Günter Schweigert : The Randecker Maar. A Miocene crater lake on the eaves of the Swabian Alb. In: Werner K. Weidert: Classical sites of paleontology. Volume 4, Goldschneck, 2001.
  • with Winfried Reiff : The Steinheim Meteor Crater. Edited by the community of Steinheim am Albuch. Munich 2002.
  • with Ronald Böttcher, Michael W. Rasser, Reinhard Ziegler: Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW 'Germany). New Yearbook of Geology and Paleontology, Treatises. 254, No. 1/2, 2009, pp. 237-260

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Authority record GND 120660415 in the common authority file , accessed on May 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ cosmos . 76: 389 (1980).
personal data
SURNAME Heizmann, Elmar PJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heizmann, Elmar Peter Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau