Johann Andreas Wagner
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Johann Andreas Wagner (21 March 1797 – 17 December 1861) was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and archaeologist who wrote several important works on palaeontology.
Wagner was a professor at the University of Munich, and curator of the Zoologische Staatssammlung (State Zoology Collection). He was the author of Die Geographische Verbreitung der Säugethiere Dargestellt (1844–46).
Pikermi
In his travels to the fossil beds of Pikermi, he discovered and described fossil remains of mastodon, Dinotherium, Hipparion, two species of giraffe, antelope and others.[1][2] His collaboration with Johannes Roth on these fossils became a major textbook in palaeontology, known as "Roth & Wagner", in which the "bones were much broken, and no complete skeleton was found with all the parts united".[3][4]
Bibliography
- Template:De icon 1844-1846. Die Geographische Verbreitung der Säugethiere Dargestellt.
- Template:De icon Johann Andreas Wagner 1897. Monographie der gattung Pomatias Studer.
References
- ^ Upper Miocene Formations of Greece at Pikermi on Geology.com
- ^ Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der fossilen Säugthier-Überreste von Pikermi on Google books, by Wagner, Munich, 1857
- ^ Die fossilen Knochenüberreste von Pikermi in Griechenland on Google books, by Johannes Rudolf Roth and Johann Andreas Wagner, Munich, 1854
- ^ "bones were much broken" in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 6, 1857, page 182
- 1797 births
- 1861 deaths
- German zoologists
- German paleontologists
- German archaeologists
- German curators
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty
- Corresponding Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- German science writers
- Science teachers
- German male writers
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