Wolfgang Sippel

Wolfgang Sippel (* 1947 in Northeim ) is a German fossil collector .

He is an official in Wuppertal and lives in the Ennepetal and is known for collections of fossil insects. Among other things, he collected in Ober-Karbon ( Namur B ) a brickworks pit in Hagen-Vorhalle . He also emerged as a draftsman and photographer of fossil insects.

In 2012 he received the Friedrich von Alberti Prize "for decades of voluntary excavation work in the sediments of the Devonian and Carboniferous in North Rhine-Westphalia and for his help in popularizing the excavation results ". Several fossil insects are named after him, such as the locust Locustopsis sippeli from Wolfgang Zessin , whose holotype he found in 1982 in the Lias of Grimmen , the hymenoptera Sippelipterus liasinus (Zessin 1985), the 32 cm dragonfly Namurotype sippeli ( Carsten Brauckmann , Wolfgang Zessin 1989 ) and the shark species Hagenoselache sippeli . Sippel discovered eleven new, published fossil species by 2012 (publication of three others was in preparation in 2012).

Since 1984 he has been a volunteer at the Fuhlrott Museum (with Carsten Brauckmann). Even during the GDR he had contacts with the paleontologist Wolfgang Zessin in Schwerin. Since 1990 he has been a volunteer for the palaeontological monument preservation of North Rhine-Westphalia and has been involved in the excavations of the LWL-Museum für Naturkunde in Hagen-Vorhalle in the 1990s. He was also on a paleontological expedition to Svalbard for several months with Hans-Joachim Schweitzer .

Many of his finds, most of which he prepared himself, are in the LWL Museum.

literature

• Wolfgang Zessin: Wolfgang Sippel, Ennepetal: Portrait of a collector and draftsman of paleoentomological objects, bulletin of the Entomological Association Mecklenburg, Virgo 4,1, 2000, pp. 67–73

Web links

• Alberti Prize for Sippel 2012, geo-network