Ernst Brenner von Felsach

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Ernst Brenner von Felsach (born April 6, 1865 in Vienna ; † March 15, 1903 there ) was an Austrian nobleman and fossil collector .

Brenner von Felsach collected fossils in the Viennese Young Tertiary . The two snail species Turritella brenneri and Turrittela ernesti from the genus Turritella are named after him.

literature

  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 138 ( PDF; 325 kB )

Individual evidence

  1. Rudolf Handmann : On the tertiary fauna of the Vienna basin . In: Negotiations of the Geological Reichsanstalt 1882, p. 220 ( PDF; 916 kB ).