Erika von Huene

Erika Martha Hoyningen-Huene (* 1905 in Tübingen , † 1969 in Berlin ) was a German paleontologist , inter alia, in the quarry Gaisbrunnen at Tübingen Bebenhausen a tooth of tricuspes tubingensis found and then the type described .

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She was the eldest daughter of the paleontologist Friedrich von Huene and Theodora ("Dora") Huene, b. Lawton, (* July 5, 1880 in Tübingen; † April 30, 1962 there). She did her doctorate in 1933 under Edwin Hennig and with the help of Otto H. Schindewolf . During the Second World War she carried out some work for the latter on behalf of the Reich Office for Soil Research . At the end of the war, she returned to her parents' house to look after her parents. In the last years of her life, she managed retirement homes in Tübingen and Berlin-Frohnau . She died in Berlin just two weeks after her father died.

Fonts

Erika von Huene has only written 7 publications during her academic career:

To the knowledge of the Württemberg Rätbonebed with tooth finds of new mammals and mammal-like reptiles. Schwend, 1933.
A Rhynchocephale from the Rhät (Pachystropheus ng). New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology 74 (1935): Pages 441-447.
Cymatosaurus and its relationships with other sauropterygians. New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and paleontology, monthly books, Dept. B 1944 192-222, 6 illustrations.
Collected papers. , 1933-1949

Web links

2009 - The Darwin Bicentennial, and 40 years since von Huene's Death

Individual evidence

↑ Jason A. Lillegraven, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, William A. Clemens: Mesozoic Mammals: The First Two-Thirds of Mammalian History. University of California Press, 1979, p.10.
↑ RTJ Moody, Martill. MD, E. Buffetaut, D. Naish, DM Martill: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective. Geological Society, 2010, 352 pp., 129.

personal data
SURNAME	Huene, Erika von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hoyningen-Huene, Erika Martha von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German vertebrate palaeontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH	1969
Place of death	Berlin

[Mesozoic-1] Jason A. Lillegraven, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, William A. Clemens: Mesozoic Mammals: The First Two-Thirds of Mammalian History. University of California Press, 1979, p.10.

[2] RTJ Moody, Martill. MD, E. Buffetaut, D. Naish, DM Martill: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective. Geological Society, 2010, 352 pp., 129.