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OPPEL, CARL ALBERT (1831–1865)

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OPPEL, CARL See also:ALBERT (1831–1865) , See also:German palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Hohenheim in See also:Wurttemberg, on the 19th of See also:December 1831. After studying See also:mineralogy and See also:geology at See also:Stuttgart, he entered the university of See also:Tubingen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1853. Here he came under the See also:influence of See also:Quenstedt and devoted his See also:special See also:attention to the fossils of the See also:Jurassic See also:system. With this See also:object he examined in detail during 1854 and the following See also:year the See also:succession of strata in See also:England, See also:France and See also:Germany and determined the various palaeontological stages or zones characterized by special See also:guide-fossils, in most cases See also:ammonites. The results of his researches were published in his See also:great See also:work See also:Die Juraformation Englands, Frankreichs and See also:des siidwestlichen Deutschlands (1856-1858). In 1858 he became an assistant in the Palaeontological Museum at See also:Munich. In 186o he became See also:professor of palaeontology in the university at Munich, and in 1861 director of the Palaeontological Collection. There he continued his labours on the Jurassic See also:fauna, describing new See also:species of See also:crustacea, ammonites, &c. To him also we owe the See also:establishment of the Tithonian See also:stage, for strata (mainly See also:equivalent to the See also:English See also:Portland and Purbeck Beds) that occur on the See also:borders of Jurassic and Cretaceous. Of his later See also:works the most important was Palaontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Konigl. Bayer. Skulls.

(1862-1865). He died at Munich on the 23rd of December 1865.

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