Otto Zdansky
Otto Karl Josef Zdansky[1] (28 November 1894, Vienna – 26 December 1988, Uppsala) was an Austrian paleontologist.
Biography
[edit]He graduated from the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Paleontology on 21 March 1921, with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Über die Temporalregion des Schildkrötenschädels').[1]
He is best known for his work in China, where he, as an assistant to Johan Gunnar Andersson, discovered a fossil tooth of the Peking Man in 1921 at the Dragon Bone Hill, although he did not disclose it until 1926 [2] when he published it in Nature after an analysis by Davidson Black.[3] He is also famous for his excavations of mammal fossils in Baode County area (Pao Te Hsien), Shanxi Province.[4] Zdansky in 1923 excavated the sauropod dinosaur Euhelopus zdanskyi named after him.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Katharina Kniefacz Otto Karl Josef Zdansky // Memorial Book of National Socialism at the University of Vienna
- ^ "Morgan Lucas" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 4, 2006.
- ^ Puech, Pierre-François. "L' Homme de Pékin: Otto Zdansky - Etude de l'usure des dents".
- ^ "Hipparion Clay".
Further reading
[edit]- Jokela, T.; Eronen, J. T.; Kaakinen, A.; Liping, L.; Passey, B. H.; Zhaoqun, Z.; Mingkai, F. (2005). "Translation of Otto Zdansky's "The Localities of the Hipparion Fauna of Baode County in Northwest Shanxi"(1923)" (PDF). Palaeontologia Electronica. 8 (1).
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