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HORNES, MORITZ (1815-1868)

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HORNES, See also:MORITZ (1815-1868) , See also:Austrian palaeontologist, was See also:born in See also:Vienna on the 14th of See also:July 1815. He was educated in the university and graduated Ph.D. He then became assistant in the Vienna mineralogical museum. He was distinguished for his researches on the See also:Tertiary See also:mollusca of the Vienna See also:Basin, and on the Triassic mollusca of Alpine regions. Most of his See also:memoirs were published in the Jahrbuch der K. K. geol. Reichsanstall. In 1864 he introduced the See also:term Neogene to include See also:Miocene and See also:Pliocene, as these formations are not always to be clearly separated: the See also:fauna of the See also:lower See also:division being subtropical and gradually giving See also:place in the upper division to Mediterranean forms. He died in Vienna on the 4th of See also:November 1868. His son Dr See also:Rudolf Hornes (b. r85o), See also:professor of See also:geology and palaeontology in the university of See also:Graz, has also carried on researches among the Tertiary mollusca, and is author of Elemente der Palaeontologie (1884).

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