Gerhard Storch

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Gerhard Storch (2006)

Gerhard Storch (born May 21, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 11, 2017 ) was a German paleontologist and head of the “Terrestrial Zoology” department at the Senckenberg Research Institute . He became known as the first to describe several fossil mammals - species from the Messel Pit , including the anteater Eurotamandua joresi and insectivore-like mammal pholidocercus and the genus eomanis , a fossil genus of pangolins .

Life

Gerhard Storch studied biology in Darmstadt, Vienna and Frankfurt and received his doctorate in 1967 on a functional morphological topic in bats . From 1967 to 1969 he was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and since 1969 he has been head of the “Fossil Mammals” section at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He was also head of the Terrestrial Zoology Department from 1997 until he retired in 2004.

Storch took part in palaeontological excavations in Germany ( Dorn-Dürkheim , Eppelsheim ), China, Morocco, the Aegean and Malta.

literature

  • with Oldřich Fejfar : The rodent from Valec-Waltsch in Bohemia. A historic mammal fossil find. (Rodentia: Myoxidae). In: Munich Geoscientific Treatises: Series A: Geology and Paleontology. Vol. 26, 1994, ISSN  0177-0950 , pp. 5-34.
  • as editor with Wighart von Koenigswald : Messel. A Pompeii of paleontology. (= Thorbecke Species. Vol. 2). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1998, ISBN 3-7995-9083-8 .
  • with Jens Lorenz Franzen : Late Miocene mammals from Central Europe. In: Jordi Agustí, Lorenzo Rook, Peter Andrews (Eds.): The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe. (= Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe. Vol. 1). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-64097-0 , pp. 165-190.
  • as editor with Thomas Keller: Hermann von Meyer. Frankfurt citizen and founder of vertebrate paleontology in Germany. (= Small Senckenberg series. Vol. 40). Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-510-61329-5 .
  • Mammals at the beginning of their great careers: The Messel Pit. In: Biology in Our Time. Volume 34, 2004, pp. 38-45

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice
personal data
SURNAME Storch, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2017