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Hermann Friedrich Emmrich (
Meiningen, February 7, 1815 – Meiningen, 24 January 1879) was a German
geologist
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.
He received his Ph.D. in philosophy and taught at the Institute of Meiningen (Henfling-Gymnasium Meiningen).
He described the
trilobite
Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the ...
genera ''
Phacops
''Phacops'' is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, family Phacopidae, that lived in Europe, northwestern Africa, North and South America and China from the Late Ordovician until the very end of the Devonian, with a broader time range ...
'', ''
Odontopleura'' and ''
Trinucleus''.
He published ''Zur Naturgeschichte der Trilobiten'' (On the natural history of trilobites) in 1839 and ''Geologischem Geschichte des Alpes'' (Geological history of the Alps) in 1874.
The trilobite genus ''
Emmrichops'' was named in his honor.
References
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German paleontologists
1815 births
1879 deaths
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