Wilhelm Barnim Dames (9 June 1843, in Stolp – 22 December 1898, in Berlin) was a German paleontologist of the Berlin University, who described the first complete specimen of the early bird Archaeopteryx in 1894. This specimen is currently in the Museum für Naturkunde.
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He studied at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, where he was a student of Ferdinand von Roemer. In 1874 he obtained his habilitation, and in 1891 succeeded Heinrich Ernst Beyrich as a full professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Berlin.[1] With Emanuel Kayser, he was co-editor of the journal Paläontologische Abhandlungen.[2]
Dames was also the first to describe an Archaeoceti fossil from Egypt in 1883.[3] In 1894 he published Über Zeuglodonten aus Ägypten und die Beziehungen der Archaeoceten zu den übrigen Cetaceen ("On Zeuglodontes from Egypt and the relationship of Archaeoceti to the other cetaceans").[4]
A Devonian brachiopod coming from an outcrop in Lower Silesia Dames had studied[5] was named in his honour Kyrtatrypa barnimi.[6]
References edit
- ^ Dames, Wilhelm Barnim In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2, S. 499.
- ^ Palæontologische Abhandlungen OCLC WorldCat
- ^ Gingerich, P. D. (2007). "Early evolution of whales: a century of research in Egypt". In Fleagle, J. G.; Gilbert, Christopher C. (eds.). Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins (PDF). New York: Springer. pp. 107–124. ISBN 978-0-387-73896-3. OCLC 233971398. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
- ^ Über Zeuglodonten aus Ägypten ... OCLC WorldCat
- ^ Dames, Wilhelm Barnim (1868). "Ueber die in der Umgebung Freiburgs in Nieder-Schlesien auftretenden devonischer Ablagerungen". Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft. 20: 469–508.
- ^ Halamski, A. T. (2013). "Frasnian Atrypida (Brachiopoda) from Silesia (Poland) and the age of the eo-Variscan collision in the Sudetes". Geodiversitas. 35 (2): 289–308. doi:10.5252/g2013n2a1. S2CID 128761082 – via BioOne.