Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer |
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer | |
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Died | April 2, 1869 | (aged 67)
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Palaentologist |
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Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (3 September 1801 – 2 April 1869), known as Hermann von Meyer, was a German
He was born at
In 1832, Meyer issued a work entitled Palaeologica, and in course of time he published a series of memoirs on various fossil organic remains:
In Palaeologica, Meyer proposed a classification of fossil reptiles into four major groups based on their limbs:
His second group he belatedly termed Pachypodes in 1845, later revising to Pachypoda, from the
His more elaborate researches were those on the
He was associated with W Dunker and
Today, Meyer is probably best known for describing and naming the