Georg Gottlieb Pusch or in Polish Jerzy Bogumił Pusz (15 December 1790, Kohren - 2.October 1846,

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

) was a German

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althoug ...

. He wrote ''Geognostischer Katechismus oder Anweisung zum praktischen Geognosiren für angehende Bergleute und Geognosten'' Craz und Gerlach., Freiburg 1819., 212 S

Taxa

Pusch described *''

Gigantopecten nodosiformis ''Gigantopecten'' is a genus of fossil scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. These facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeders lived from the Oligocene to the Quaternary period (from 33. ...

'' (Pusch, 1837) *''

Bolinus ''Bolinus'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This genus is known in the fossil record from the Miocene to the Pliocene period (age range: from 15.97 to 2.588 million ye ...

'' (Pusch, 1837) *'' Hydrobia inflata'' (Pusch, 1837) in Pusch, G. G., 1837 ''Polens Paläontologie : oder, Abbildung und Beschreibung der vorzüglichsten und der noch unbeschriebenen Petrefakten aus den Gebirgsformationen in Polen, Volhynien und den Karpathen nebst einigen allgemeinen Beiträgen zur Petrefaktenkunde und einem Versuch zur Vervollständigung der Geschechte des europäischen Auer-Ochsen'' Stuttgart : E. Schweizerbart's Verlagshandlung, 1837.

References

* 19th-century German geologists 1846 deaths 1790 births {{Germany-scientist-stub