Siegfried Henkel

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Siegfried Henkel (* 3. June 1931 in Dresden , † 14. May 1984 ) was a German vertebrate - paleontologist and well-known for research on Mesozoic mammals. He was a professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Henkel developed methods for extracting small vertebrate fossils from large amounts of sediment. He led the excavations with Bernard Krebs in the rich Jurassic fossil deposit Guimarota in Portugal . In 1991 , Krebs named Henkelotherium , a genus of Jurassic mammals whose first fossil was discovered by Henkel in 1976, after him.

literature

  • Bernhard Krebs : Siegfried Henkel 1931–1984. In: Paläontologie aktuell. Issue 10, December 1984, ZDB -ID 986165-8 , pp. 18-19, ( digitized version ).
  • Bernard Krebs, Bernd Uchdorf (Ed.): Contributions to paleontology. In memory of Siegfried Henkel (= Berlin geoscientific treatises. Series A: Geology and Palaeontology. 60). Reimer, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-496-00246-8 , pp. 1-4.
personal data
SURNAME Henkel, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1984