Carl Wiman

Carl Johann Josef Ernst Wiman ( born March 10, 1867 in Husby - Odensala, in the archipelago near Stockholm, † July 15, 1944 ) was a Swedish paleontologist. He was the first professor of paleontology at the University of Uppsala.

Life

Wiman studied from 1888 in Uppsala, where he made his candidate 's degree in 1891 and in 1885 received his doctorate in paleontology. He dealt with fossils of the Silurian, Ordovician and Cambrian in Sweden and in particular graptolites where he developed new methods of preparation. 1901 to 1903 he took part in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld, where he found fossil penguins in the Paleogene of Seymour Island and turned to in the wake of vertebrate paleontology. In 1908 he participated in the Spitsbergen Expedition of Gerald de Geer part and later organized expeditions to Spitsbergen (and other parts of the Arctic, such as the Bear Island ), where he among other vertebrate fossils (fish, reptiles, amphibians) and brachiopods of the carbon and ichthyosaurs Triassic of Spitsbergen collected and described. He founded the Paleontological Museum in Uppsala, where he became in 1910 a professor of paleontology ( with a personal professorship in 1922 as Professor of Paleontology and Historical Geology ).

He also described dinosaur fossils that he was sent from China and New Mexico. Wiman was the first to suggest that the bone plug on the skull of Hadrosauriern served as a sounding body of producing sounds such as Parasaurolophus.

According to him, the extinct penguins Archaeosphniscus wimani and Palaeospheniscus wimani were named the fossil turtle Dracochelys wimani, the ichthyosaurs Wimanius and the sauropod Borealosaurus wimani.

Wiman different in the group of dendroiden graptolites ( Dendroidea ), extinct tubular colony-forming relatives of Flügelkiemer, three types of counters in the living -tube assembly ( Wimans rule): Car counters (probably opening for the male individual animal ), Bitheken (probably opening for the female Individual animal) and Stolonotheken containing the connecting soft tissue strand ( stolon ).

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1935 Honorary Member of the Paleontological Society, and since 1926.

2011 Peking man were in the archives of Uppsala dental remains ( Homo erectus ) found that were sent in the 1920s to Wiman, but remained unnoticed for decades. The discovery caused a stir, as even the majority of the found fossils of Peking man disappeared in the turmoil of the Second World War in China.