Emanuel Bunzel (1828–1895), was an Austrian paleontologist.
Emanuel Bunzel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1828 |
| Died | 1895 (aged 66–67) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation | Paleontologist |
| Years active | 1866/1870–1895 |
Biography
editEmanuel Bunzel was born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (today the Czech Republic), in 1828.
In 1871, he described a skull fragment found in an Austrian coal mine in 1859 by colleagues Ferdinand Stoliczka and Eduard Suess as the type specimen for the dinosaur genus Struthiosaurus,[1] the first discovered in the region. Another dinosaur he described initially as a species of Iguanodon (I. suessii) has since been reassigned to the genus Mochlodon,[2] also found in 1859 alongside Struthiosaurus.[3][4] Also in 1871, he named the crocodylomorph Crocodilus carcharidens (now Doratodon), the pterosaur "Ornithocheirus" buenzeli and the theropod dinosaur Megalosaurus schnaitheimi,[4] now believed to have been based upon remains referable to the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Dakosaurus maximus.[5]
Bunzel died in 1895, aged 66–67.
References
edit- ^ Bunzel, E (1871). "Die Reptilfauna der Gosaformation in der Neuen Welt bei Wiener-Neustadt" (PDF). Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt. 5: 1–18.
- ^ Seeley, H. G. (1881). "The Reptile Fauna of the Gosau Formation preserved in the Geological Museum of the University of Vienna: with a Note on the Geological Horizon of the Fossils at Neue Welt, west of Wiener Neustadt, by Edw. Suess, Ph.D., F.M.G.S., &c., Professor of Geology in the University of Vienna, &c". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 37 (1–4): 620–707. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1881.037.01-04.49. S2CID 219235284.
- ^ Bunzel, E. (1870). "Notice of a Fragment of a Reptilian Skull from the Upper Cretaceous of Grunbach". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 26 (1–2): 394. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1870.026.01-02.35. S2CID 129380715.
- ^ a b Bunzel, Emanuel (1871). "Die Reptilfauna der Gosauformation in der Neuen Welt bei Wiener-Neustadt" (PDF). Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt (in German). 5: 1–18. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ^ Carrano, M.T.; Benson, R.B.J.; & Sampson, S.D. (2012). "The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2): 211–300
- Abstract: Notice of a Fragment of a Reptilian Skull from the Upper Cretaceous of Grünbach
- Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf dinosaur site (German)
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