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Hans Gottfried Kugler
Hans Gottfried Kugler (22 August 1893 – 6 December 1986) was a Swiss geologist who worked in Trinidad. He worked primarily on stratigraphy and worked in the petrochemical industry but continued to take an interest in micropaleontology. He established at laboratory at Pointe-a-Pierre and produced a 1:100000 map of the geology of Trinidad in 1961. He collected specimens extensively for the Basel Natural History Museum. Nearly 60 taxa are named in his honour. Kugler was born in Baden, Argau and grew up in St. Gallen and Basel where he went to the Untern Realschule. Interested in natural history from an early age he began to collect fossils in the Jura mountains. He spent his spare time in the Basel Natural History Museum and studied geology under Karl Schmidt (1862-1923), August Buxtorf and Heinrich Preiswerk (1876-1940) at the University of Basel before working on the collections of August Tobler. He joined Tobler into Trinidad in 1913 and returned in 1914 and received a doct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micropaleontology
Micropaleontology (American spelling; spelled micropalaeontology in European usage) is the branch of paleontology (palaeontology) that studies microfossils, or fossils that require the use of a microscope to see the organism, its morphology and its characteristic details. Microfossils Microfossils are fossils that are generally between 0.001mm and 1 mm in size, the study of which requires the use of light or electron microscopy. Fossils which can be studied by the naked eye or low-powered magnification, such as a hand lens, are referred to as macrofossils. For example, some colonial organisms, such as Bryozoa (especially the Cheilostomata) have relatively large colonies, but are classified by fine skeletal details of the small individuals of the colony. In another example, many fossil genera of Foraminifera, which are protists are known from shells (called "tests") that were as big as coins, such as the genus '' Nummulites''. Microfossils are a common feature of the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
