Gustav Geissler

Gustav Geissler (also Gustav Geißler , born January 12, 1871 in Nuremberg , † after 1895) was a German dentist and paleontologist .

Geissler studied with Max Blanckenhorn , Konrad Oebbeke and Emil Selenka at the University in Erlangen , where he in 1895 at the Faculty for Dr. phil. received his doctorate .

Then Geissler worked as a dentist.

Gustav Geissler is best known for his 1895 published paper on dinosaur finds from the shell of Bayreuth . His first paleontological descriptions of Triassic fin lizards that were made there are no longer considered valid today. The first described by him Nothosaurus baruthicus Geissler , 1895, was determined in 1996 by Olivier Rieppel and Rupert Wild as the younger synonym of Nothosaurus giganteus Münster , 1834.

Nothosaurus strunzi Geissler , 1895, is currently synonymous with Pistosaurus longaevus MEYER , 1839.

Fonts

• About new saurian finds from the shell limestone of Bayreuth. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume XLVII, Berlin 1895, pp. 331 - 355, panels XIII - XIV digitized

literature

• Bruno von Freyberg : The geological literature on Northeast Bavaria (1476-1965) Part II: Biographical Author Register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bavarian Geological State Office 1974, p. 49
• Olivier Rieppel and Rupert Wild: A revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic, with comments on the status of Conchiosaurus clavatus (= Fieldiana. Geology. NS Nr. 34, ISSN  0096-2651 = Field Museum of Natural History. Publication. 1479). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago IL 1996, digitized .