Theodoros Skouphos

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Theodoros Skouphos (1923)

Theodoros Georgios Skouphos (also Theodor Georg Skuphos , Theodor Georg Skouphos , * 1862 , † 1938 in Athens ) was a Greek geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Theodoros Skouphos came from Paros in Greece and studied among other things at the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens and under the name Theodor Georg Skuphos also natural sciences with Karl Alfred von Zittel and August Rothpletz at the University of Munich.

During his time in Germany he made contributions to the stratigraphy of the Alpine Triassic and worked on the vertebrate remains found during the excursions.

After his return to Greece, he worked as a private lecturer in paleontology and later as a professor at the Athens University and as a curator of the paleontological museum.

He dealt with the great earthquake on April 20, 1894 (according to the Orthodox calendar April 8, 1894), in which Gaidaros was separated from the mainland.

With Arthur Smith Woodward he investigated the Pikermi bone store in the Attica region .

In 1902 he carried out systematic excavations on the banks of the Alpheios near Megalopolis , which Ludwig Bürchner made known in 1903.

His first paleontological descriptions of Triassic vertebrates are currently no longer considered valid. Partanosaurus zitteli Skuphos 1893 from the Partnachschichten (Ladin) of Vorarlberg (Austria) was determined in 1996 by Olivier Rieppel as the younger synonym of Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer 1832 and Microleptosaurus schlosseri Skuphos 1893 declared as nomen dubium . Kolposaurus Dichthadius Skuphos 1893 is also regarded as a nomen dubium and is assigned to Nothosaurus .

Theodor Georg Skouphos was a member of the German Geological Society , the Geological Society in Vienna and in the founding year 1910 he became a member of the Geological Association .

Fonts

  • The stratigraphic position of the Partnach and the so-called. Lower Cardita layers in the North Tyrolean and Bavarian Alps. In: Geognostische Jahreshefte, 4, 1891, Cassel 1892, pp. 87–142 digitized
  • About the development and distribution of the Partnachschichten in Vorarlberg and in the Principality of Liechtenstein. In: Yearbook of the Imperial Royal Geological Institute, 43, 1893, pp. 145–178 PDF
  • Preliminary information about Parthanosaurus Zitteli, a new dinosaur from the Triassic. In: Zoologischer Anzeiger, 16, 1893, pp. 67-69 digitized
  • About Partanosaurus Zitteli Skuphos and Microleptosaurus Schlosseri nov. gen., nov. spec. from the Vorarlberg Part Nachschichten. Treatises of the KK Geologische Reichsanstalt, 15, 5, Vienna 1893, pp. 1–16 digitized
  • The two great earthquakes in Lokris on April 8/20 and April 15/27, 1894 In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin, 29, 1894, p. 409–475 digitized
  • About the palaeontological excavations in Greece in relation to the presence of humans. In: Comptes Rendus du Congrès International d'Archéologie, Athènes 1905, pp. 231–236

literature

  • Ludwig Bürchner: Important finds of fossil bones in Arcadia. In: Reports of the Natural Science Association Regensburg, 9, 1903, pp. 119–123
  • Olivier Rieppel: The status of the sauropterygian reptile Partanosaurus zitteli Skuphos from the Middle Triassic of the Austrian Alps, with comments on Microleptosaurus schlösseri Skuphos . In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 70, 3/4, Stuttgart 1996, pp. 567-577

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olivier Rieppel, 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 No. 34, ISSN  0096-2651 = Field Museum of Natural History. Publication. 1479). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago IL 1996, digitized .
  2. ^ Directory of the members of the German Geological Society 1895, Journal of the German Geological Society, XLVII, Berlin 1895, p. 10
  3. ^ Directory of the members of the Geological Society in Vienna, 1915
  4. ^ Members of the Geologische Vereinigung 1910 Geologische Rundschau, 1, Leipzig 1910, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Skouphos, Theodoros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skuphos, Theodor Georg; Skouphos, Theodor Georg; Skouphos, Theodoros Georgios (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1862
DATE OF DEATH 1938
Place of death Athens