Friedrich von Huene, born Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen, (March 22, 1875 – April 4, 1969) was a German
paleontologist who renamed more
dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in
Europe. He also made key contributions about various Permo-Carboniferous limbed vertebrates.
Biography
Huene was born in
Tübingen,
Kingdom of Württemberg. His discoveries include the skeletons of more than 35 individuals of ''
Plateosaurus'' in the famous
Trossingen quarry, the early proto-dinosaur ''
Saltopus
''Saltopus'' ("hopping foot") is a genus of very small bipedal dinosauriform containing the single species ''Saltopus elginensis'' from the late Triassic period of Scotland. It is one of the most famous Elgin Reptiles.
Description
''Saltopus e ...
'' in 1910, ''
Proceratosaurus'' in 1926, the giant ''
Antarctosaurus
''Antarctosaurus'' (; meaning "southern lizard") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. The type species, ''Antarctosaurus wichmannianus'', and a second species, ''Antarctosau ...
'' in 1929, and numerous other dinosaurs and
fossilized animals like
pterosaurs. He also was the first to naming several higher
taxa, including
Prosauropoda and
Sauropodomorpha. In 1941 he found a stone that had petrified wood in it, sadly, He thought that it was a dinosaur. However a couple Polish paleontologists. The “dinosaur” was called the
Succinodon
He visited the
Geopark of Paleorrota in 1928, and there collected the ''
Prestosuchus chiniquensis'' in 1938.
He also studied several Permo-Carboniferous and Triassic limbed vertebrates, including members of several large clades, such as
Temnospondyli,
Synapsida, and
Sauropsid
Sauropsida ("lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia. Sauropsida is the sister taxon to Synapsida, the other clade of amniotes which includes mammals as its only modern representatives. Although early syna ...
a.
In his work on mesosaurs,
Huene indicated that a lower temporal fenestra was present (as in
synapsids), an interpretation later rejected by many subsequent workers,
but more recently upheld.
A new species of basal sauropodomorph, ''
Lufengosaurus huenei'', was named after von Huene in 1941. ''
Liassaurus
''Sarcosaurus'' (meaning "flesh lizard") is a genus of basal neotheropod dinosaur, roughly long. It lived in what is now England during the Hettangian-Sinemurian stages of the Early Jurassic, about 199-194 million years ago. ''Sarcosaurus'' is o ...
huenei'', an early
carnivorous
A carnivore , or meat-eater (Latin, ''caro'', genitive ''carnis'', meaning meat or "flesh" and ''vorare'' meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements derive from animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other sof ...
theropod, was named for him in 1995, though this name is invalid.
See also
*
:Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene
References
* Westphal, Frank (1972) "Huene, Friedrich von" ''In'' ''
Neue Deutsche Biographie
''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (''NDB''; literally ''New German Biography'') is a biographical reference work. It is the successor to the ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, Universal German Biography). The 26 volumes published thus far cover ...
'' (volume 9 Heß–Hüttig), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, page
740* length: 60 pages; Guide to the fossil finds in Rio Grande do Sul, and especially in the Santa Maria area.
* length: 582 pages
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German paleontologists
1875 births
1969 deaths
People from Tübingen
People from the Kingdom of Württemberg
University of Tübingen alumni
University of Tübingen faculty