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Pleurotomella Insignifica
''Pleurotomella insignifica'' is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Raphitomidae. Description (Original description) The fusiform shell shows prominent revolving lines below the middle of the Whorl (mollusc), whorl. The Spire (mollusc), spire is elevated. The shell contains about five angular whorls. The siphonal canal is short, obliquely curved. The Aperture (mollusc), aperture is contracted. Distribution Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in Alabama, USA. References Pleurotomella, insignifica Gastropods described in 1879 {{paleo-gastropod-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Heilprin
Angelo Heilprin (March 31, 1853 – July 17, 1907) was an American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, and explorer. He is mostly known for the part he took into the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892 and for his observations and photographs of the 1902 eruption of Montagne Pelée in Martinique. He also was a mountaineer and a painter. Biography Angelo Heilprin was born at Sátoraljaújhely, in the Zemplén County of the Kingdom of Hungary. His family was Jewish. He arrived in the United States from the Austrian Empire with his father Michael and his brother Louis in 1856. He went back to Europe in 1876 for two years to complete his education. He studied at the Royal School of Mines, London, at the Imperial Geological Institution of Vienna, and at Florence (where he had his only formal training in painting) and Geneva; he also went to Hungary, where he mountaineered in the Carpathians, and to Poland where he visited family for six months. He then became pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
