Ottokar Feistmantel
Ottokar Feistmantel (21 November 1848 - 10 February 1891) was a Czech-Austrian (born in Bohemia) geologist and paleontologist who studied in Prague and Berlin. His father, Karl Feistmantel was also a geologist. He described several genera and species of fossil plants from peninsular India and coined the term "Gondwana Series" in geology which was used in the naming of the supercontinent of Gondwanaland.[1][2]
Feistmantel worked in India from 1875 to 1883 as a paleontologist with the Geological Survey of India in Calcutta.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Feistmantel, O. (1879) The Fossil flora of the lower Gondwanas. I. The Flora of the Talchir-Karhabari Beds. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India Series XII
- ↑ Feistmantel, O. (1876). "Contributions towards the Knowledge of the Fossil Flora in India. On some fossil plants from the Damuda Series in the Raniganj coalfield, collected by Mr J. Wood-Mason" (4). pp. 329–382.
- ↑ Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 1. n.d. p. 293.
References
- Pospíšilová Dagmar and Klimtová Zdenka (2011) "Ottokar Feistmantel (1848–1891) and the Indian Collection of the Náprstek Museum", Prague. National Museum, Prague.
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