Paul Tasch

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Paul Tasch (born November 28, 1910 in New York City , † July 13, 2001 in Wichita (Kansas) ) was an American paleontologist.

Tasch, who served in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II, graduated from City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in 1948 and from Pennsylvania State University with a master's degree in 1950. Tasch received his doctorate from the State University of Iowa in 1952 , was an instructor at the University of Connecticut and from 1953 Assistant Professor at the North Dakota Agriculture College. In 1954 he became an associate professor at Moorehead State University and in 1955 a professor at Wichita State University. In 1982 he retired.

As a paleontologist, he dealt with Conchostraca , its paleogeography in the southern hemisphere (including Antarctica) and indications that result from it on the continental drift. He also dealt with the search for fossil bacteria in salt formations of the Permian and geological history (especially Charles Darwin , Charles Lyell ).

He contributed the article Branchiopoda to the Arthropod Volume of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology .

In 1970 he received the Antarctic Service Medal of the US Congress. The Tash peak , a peak in the Crary Mountains in Antarctica is named after him.

Fonts

  • Three general principles for a system classification of fossil conchostraca, J. Paleontology, 30, 1956, 1258-1257
  • Conchostraca, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, R: Arthropoda, 1969, pp. 141-191
  • Palaeobiology of the Invertebrates. Data Retrieval from the fossil records, Wiley, 1973, 2nd edition 1980
  • Causes and paleoecological significance of dwarfed fossil marine invertebrates: Journal of Paleontology, Volume 27, 1953, pp. 356-444 (dissertation)
  • Communications theory and the fossil record of invertebrates: Kansas Academy of Science Transactions, Vol. 68, 1965, pp. 322-329.
  • Fossil clam shrimp distribution and its significance for the theory of continental drift: Kansas Academy of Science Transactions, Volume 70, 1967, No. 2, pp. 151-163.
  • Invertebrate fossil record and continental drift, in Research in the Antarctic: American Association for the Advancement of Science: Washington, DC, 1971, pp. 703-716.
  • Non-marine Arthropoda of the Tasmanian Triassic. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 109, 1975, pp. 97-106.
  • Crustacean branchiopod distribution and speciation in Mesozoic lakes of the southern continents. Antarctic Research Series 30, 1979, 65-74
  • Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic conchostracans of Australia - three new studies. 1. Carboniferous and Triassic Conchostraca from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. (with PJ Jones) 2. Lower Triassic Conchostraca from the Bonaparte Gulf Basin, northwestern Australia (with a note on Cyzicus (Euestheria) minuta (?) from the Carnarvon Basin) (with PJ Jones), 3. Permian and Triassic Conchostraca from the Bowen Basin (with a note on a Carboniferous leaiid from the Drummond Basin), Queensland. Department of National Development Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin 185, 1979
  • Fossil Conchostraca of the Southern Hemisphere and continental drift. Paleontology, Biostratigraphy and Dispersal. The Geological Society of America, Memoir 165, 1987, pp. 1-290

literature

  • Daniel Merriam, Memorial to Paul Tasch (1910-2001), Geological Society of America, Memorials, Vol. 32, 2002, 22

References and comments

  1. ^ Fossil content of salt and associated evaporites, in Symposium on Salt: Cleveland, 1963, pp. 96-102
  2. ↑ Influence of Lyell's principles on Darwin's evolutionary concepts: The Compass, Volume. 65, 1987, pp. 2-11
personal data
SURNAME Tasch, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2001
Place of death Wichita, Kansas