Neumayr, Melchior#
Neumayr, Melchior, b. Munich (Germany), Oct. 24, 1845, d. Vienna, Jan. 29, 1890, palaeontologist. 1873-1890 first Professor of palaeontology at Vienna University. Worked e.g. on ammonites of the Jurassic period and the snail fauna of the Slavonic Paludina beds; Ch. Darwin praised his work as best proof of his theory on the origin of species. 1880 co-founder of the "Beitraege zur Palaeontologie Oe.-Ungarns und des Orients".
Works#
Die Fauna der Schichten mit Aspidoceras acanthicum, in: Abhandlungen der Geolog. Reichsanstalt, 1873; Die Congerien- und Paludinenschichten Slavoniens, in: Abhandlungen der Geolog. Reichsanstalt, 1875 (with C. M. Paul); Erdgeschichte, 2 vols., 1886/1887; Die Staemme des Tierreiches. Wirbellose Tiere, 1889.Literature#
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