List of trilobite researchers

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The list of trilobite researchers includes scientists and collectors who have made a contribution to the study of trilobites .

  • Gerhard KB Alberti (1931–2019), paleontologist in Hamburg, trilobites from Morocco
  • Joachim Barrande (1799–1883), French paleontologist and engineer, explorer of the trilobites of Bohemia
  • Martin Basse (* 1960), German trilobite expert at the Senckenberg Museum, especially Devon of the Eifel
  • Charles Emerson Beecher (1856–1904), American paleontologist, Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University , site of very well-preserved Ordovician trilobites in New York (Beecher's Trilobite Bed)
  • Jan Bergström (1938–2012), Swedish paleontologist and evolutionary researcher, studies on the early evolution of arthropods and especially trilobites.
  • Elkanah Billings (1820–1876), Canadian paleontologist
  • Carsten Brauckmann (* 1947), German paleontologist, Prof. in Clausthal
  • David Bruton (* 1939), British paleontologist in Oslo
  • Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737-1827), Danish zoologist
  • Hermann Burmeister (1807-1892), German naturalist, published a systematics of the trilobites in 1843
  • Brian Chatterton (born 1943), Canadian paleontologist
  • NE Chernysheva, Soviet paleontologist and trilobite expert, important publications on stratigraphy and trilobites from the Cambrian of Siberia
  • John Mason Clarke (1857–1925), New York State Palaeontologist, Devonian specialist
  • Euan Clarkson (born 1937), Scottish paleontologist
  • Ivo Chlupáč (1931–2002), Czech paleontologist, trilobites from the Barrandian
  • Robin Cocks (1938), British paleontologist, Natural History Museum London, among others Soom slate
  • Johan Wilhelm Dalman (1787–1828), Swedish doctor and entomologist at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm
  • Gregory Edgecombe (* 1964), Canadian paleontologist
  • Niles Eldredge (1943), American evolutionary researcher who, together with Stephen Jay Gould, introduced punctualism ( punctated equilibria ) in 1972 and studied this on trilobites
  • Hermann Friedrich Emmrich (1815–1879), full-time high school teacher in Meiningen, also geologist
  • Richard Fortey (* 1946), British paleontologist from the Natural History Museum London, editor of the Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology on trilobites, he also published popular science books on trilobites
  • William H. Fritz (* 1928), USA / Canada, stratigraphy and trilobites in the USA and Canada
  • Gerd Geyer (* 1956), professor in Würzburg, including Cambrian of Morocco
  • Winfried Haas (1934–2007), University of Bonn
  • Gerhard Hahn (paleontologist) (* 1933), University of Marburg
  • Horacio Harrington (1910–1973), Geological Survey of Argentina, University of Kansas, especially trilobites from Argentina, collaborator on the trilobite section of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
  • Benjamin Franklin Howell (1890–1976), professor at Princeton, trilobites of the Cambrian
  • Nigel C. Hughes , British-American trilobite expert and paleontologist, Prof. in Bristol, a. a. Cambrian of the Himalayas
  • Pierre Hupé (1907–2003), French paleontologist, trilobites from Morocco, systematics
  • James B. Jago , Australian paleontologist, Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites
  • Rudolf Kaufmann (1909 to around 1941) demonstrated speciation using the example of Swedish Cambrian trilobites.
  • Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), Polish paleontologist, studied trilobites in the 1940s and 1950s, and later on primitive mammals
  • Gerald J. Kloc (* 1948), American trilobite expert from New York
  • Teiichi Kobayashi (1901–1996), Japanese paleontologist, geologist and zoologist, trilobites of the Pacific region
  • Ed Landing , New York State Palaeontologist, New York State Museum, Cambrian Ordovician Stratigraphy of New York
  • NP Lazarenko, Soviet paleontologist, trilobites from the Cambrian of Siberia
  • EV Lermontova , Soviet paleontologist, trilobites from the Cambrian of Siberia
  • Bruce S. Lieberman (* 1966), American paleontologist and evolutionary researcher
  • Riccardo Levi-Setti (1927–2018), physicist from the University of Chicago, trilobite collector and paleontologist
  • Gustaf Lindström (1829–1901), curator at the Reichsmuseum in Stockholm, specialist in the Gotland Silurian, published in 1901 on the eyes of trilobites.
  • Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709), was the first to describe trilobites in 1699 without recognizing them as a separate group of animals
  • Rolf Ludvigsen (* 1944), Canadian paleontologist, important studies on Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites
  • George Frederic Matthew (1837–1923), Canadian paleontologist, trilobite in New Brunswick
  • Kenneth J. McNamara (* 1950), British-Australian paleontologist, research work on the evolution of early arthropods, especially trilobites, and dinosaurs.
  • John Mitchell (paleontologist) (1848–1928), Australian paleontologist and teacher, trilobites in Australia (New South Wales)
  • Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), Scottish geologist and paleontologist, introduced the Silurian and used trilobites for stratigraphy
  • Armin Alexander Öpik (1898–1983), Estonian-Australian paleontologist, trilobites from Estonia, Australia
  • Allison R. Palmer ("Pete Palmer") (* 1927), American geologist and paleontologist, specialist in Cambrian trilobites and stratigraphy
  • Tatyana V. Ebene , Russian paleontologist, important publications on stratigraphy and on trilobites from the Cambrian and Ordovician of Siberia.
  • Peng Shanchi , Chinese trilobite expert , did important studies on Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites from China, the Himalayas and Iran.
  • OK Poletaeva (1900–1982), paleontologist from the Soviet Union, important work on trilobites from the Cambrian and Ordovician of Siberia
  • Ferdinand Prantl (1907–1971), Czechoslovak paleontologist, trilobite expert, works especially on Silurian and Devonian trilobites from the Barrandian (Bohemia).
  • Alois Přibyl (1914–1988), Czechoslovak paleontologist, trilobite expert, works especially on Devonian trilobites from the Barrandian (Bohemia).
  • Franco Rasetti (1901–2001), Italian-American physicist and collaborator with Enrico Fermi , also an expert on trilobites
  • Percy Raymond (1879–1952), Professor at Harvard
  • Lada N. Repina , paleontologist from the Soviet Union and Russia, trilobite expert , important publications on stratigraphy and trilobites from the Cambrian of Siberia
  • Charles E. Resser (1889–1943), trilobite expert at the Smithsonian
  • Emma Richter (1888–1956), worked closely with her husband Rudolf Richter at the Senckenberg Museum on trilobites
  • Rudolf Richter (geoscientist) (1881–1957), leading German trilobite researcher and director of the Senckenberg Museum
  • Marie Rouault (1813–1881), French, originally a hairdresser in Rennes, fossil collector, trilobites from Brittany
  • Richard A. Robison (* 1933), American paleontologist, specialist in early arthropods, made important studies on trilobites from the USA and Greenland
  • AV Rozova, paleontologist from the Soviet Union and Russia, important work on trilobites from the Cambrian and Ordovician of Siberia
  • Adrian WA Rushton , British paleontologist, Natural History Museum London, specialist in Cambrian trilobites from Great Britain and Scandinavia
  • John William Salter (1820–1869), British paleontologist
  • Friedrich Schmidt (geologist) (1832–1908), Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, trilobites mainly from the Baltic region of the Silurian
  • Charles Schuchert (1858–1942), American paleontologist, did important work on Devonian and Carboniferous trilobites and other arthropods from North America
  • Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), British geologist, introduced Cambrian to Devon
  • John H. Shergold (1938–2006), British-Australian paleontologist, mainly works on Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites from Australia and the Antarctic.
  • Milan Šnajdr (1930–1989), Czechoslovak paleontologist, trilobite expert, works on Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites from the Barrandian (Bohemia).
  • Wolfgang Struve (1924–1997), especially Devon of the Eifel, Senckenberg Museum
  • James Stubblefield (1901-1999), British paleontologist
  • Frederick A. Sundberg , American paleontologist, did important work on trilobites from the USA and China.
  • NP Suvorova, paleontologist from the Soviet Union, basic work on Cambrian trilobites from Siberia
  • Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch (1725–1778), he introduced the term trilobites
  • Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927), American paleontologist, specialist in the Cambrian, and discoverer and explorer of the Burgess Shale
  • Mark Webster , British-American paleontologist, specialist in Cambrian trilobites
  • Stephen R. Westrop (* around 1952), British-American paleontologist, bachelor's degree in 1976 at the University of Wales in Swansea, doctorate in 1984 at the University of Toronto, professor at the University of Oklahoma, trilobite expert, studies on Cambrian and Ordovician Trilobites from North America
  • Zhang Wentang (1925–2013), Chinese paleontologist, trilobite expert , major work on Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites from China
  • Anton H. Westergård (1880–1968), Swedish paleontologist
  • Harry Blackmore Whittington (1916-2010), British paleontologist and leading trilobite researcher and expert on the Burgess Shale . Former editor of the Trilobite Volume of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
  • Lu Yanhao (1913–2003), Chinese trilobite researcher, did fundamental work on Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites from China
  • Sun Yunzhu (YC Sun) (1895–1979), Chinese paleontologist

literature

  • D. Mikulic, E. Landing, J. Kluessendorf (Eds.): Fabulous Fossils. 300 years of worldwide research on Trilobites , New York State Museum, Bulletin No. 507, 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description for example Olenus truncatus, Beskrivelse over Trilobiten , Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk. 1781