George Reber Wieland
George Reber Wieland (* 1865 in Boalsburg , Pennsylvania , † 1953 ) was an American paleontologist and paleobotanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Wieland ".
Life
Wieland studied at Pennsylvania State College , the University of Göttingen and the University of Pennsylvania . In 1890 he received his doctorate from Yale University . At Yale he first collected vertebrate fossils in the Black Hills of South Dakota for Othniel Charles Marsh . There the botanist Lester Ward had also found a petrified forest of Cycadeoidaceae in 1893 and through his influence he turned to paleobotany and expanded the large collection of this fossil plant group in Yale. Wieland became a specialist in fossil Cycadeoidaceae and remained at Yale at the Peabody Museum as a research associate until the 1940s.
He wrote a standard work on fossil Cycadeoidaceae (and its reconstructions have been included in many paleobotany books) and also dealt with the Jurassic flora of Oxaca in Mexico (especially Glossopteris , which differ from the rest of the Glossopteris flora of Gondwana ).
He also dealt with fossil turtles and first described Archelon , Toxochelys, Osteopygis, Protostega and Lytoloma.
Fonts
- American Fossil Cycads, 2 volumes, 1906, 1916
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for George Reber Wieland at the IPNI
- Biography at the Peabody Museum in Yale
References and comments
- ↑ Donald Brinkman, Patricia Holroyd, James Gardner (Eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, Springer 2013
- ↑ ij Mohan Johri, Bharati Bhattacharyya, History of Biological Sciences, Allied Publishers 2006, p 220
- ↑ Brinkman et al. a. 2013, loc. cit.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wieland, George Reber |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boalsburg , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1953 |