Wilhelm Bock (paleontologist)

Wilhelm Bock (* around 1897 , † 1972 ) was an American private paleontologist and fossil collector .

Wilhelm Bock was an engineer who compiled a very extensive collection of plant and animal fossils from the Newark Supergroup of the northeastern United States ( Triassic ). He collected many times along the railway line from his home in North Wales ( Montgomery County , Pennsylvania, a suburb north of Philadelphia) to Gwynedd .

First he published an initial description of Gwyneddosaurus erici in 1945 , and by the 1960s he introduced 5 new families, 2 subfamilies, 27 genera and 92 new species.

His collection with many holotypes and paratypes has been partially lost in the Academy of Natural Sciences (ANSP), where it was later partially rediscovered, since he left the ANSP in the early 1960s and probably had his own collection, the Geological Research Foundation, in his home , founded. The family moved to Florida after his death.

Fonts

• New Crustaceans from the Lockatong of the Newark Series , In: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , Notulae Naturae 183, 1946.
• New Eastern American Triassic Fishes and Triassic Correlations . In: Geological Center Research Series Vol. 1, Lansdale, Pennsylvania 1959.

literature

• Earl E. Spamer: Surviving component of the Wilhelm Bock collection of fossils (Invertebrates, Vertebrates and Plants). Held at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia , Notulae Naturae 473, 1995, 1-16
• James Lendemer: Rediscovery of “lost” Triassic fossil plant types: Components of the Wilhelm Bock Collection in The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and in the Yale Peabody Museum , Proc. Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, 152, 2002, 205-214

References and comments

1. ↑ Most cited in the literature. The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) only shows a Wilhelm Bock in the period in question: born May 18, 1892, died February 1971 in New Jersey, most recently residing in North Bergen.