Father of Brazilian paleontology Father of Brazilian archeology Father of Brazilian speleology
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Paleontology and Archeology
Peter Wilhelm Lund (14 June 1801 – 25 May 1880) was a Danish Brazilian paleontologist, zoologist, and archeologist. He spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as well as archaeology.
He was the first to describe dozens of species of Pleistocene megafauna, including the saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator. He also made the then ground-breaking discovery that humans co-existed with long-extinct animal species, something which possibly prompted him to terminate his scientific work. His comprehensive collections are today found at the Danish Natural History Museum in Copenhagen.
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PeterWilhelmLund (14 June 1801 – 25 May 1880) was a Danish Brazilian paleontologist, zoologist, and archeologist. He spent most of his life working and...
areas except in Suriname, Guyana and Peru; it was first described by PeterWilhelmLund from fossils in Brazilian caves and was believed to be extinct. The...
populator remains poorly understood. During the 1830s, Danish naturalist PeterWilhelmLund and his assistants collected fossils in the calcareous caves near...
described by Danish paleontologist and founder of Brazilian paleontology PeterWilhelmLund when he established a new species of Megatherium based on two teeth...
in Lagoa Santa, Brazil, PeterWilhelmLund and his crew members collected the fragmentary fossils of a fossil sloth that Wilhelm named Megalonyx cuvieri...
illustrator. He worked as an illustrator with the Danish paleontologist PeterWilhelmLund in Brazil, producing works such as a map of the Lapa Vermelha cavern...
Holocene of Brazil. The fossils were discovered by Danish paleontologist PeterWilhelmLund near Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais state, and described by Danish ornithologist...
described as an extinct taxon in 1842 by PeterWilhelmLund, based on fossils uncovered from Brazilian caves; Lund found and described living specimens in...
saber-toothed cats are among the important prehistoric specimens collected by PeterWilhelmLund "Zoologisk Museum lukker og skal pakkes ned. Men hvordan flytter man...
Order: Didelphimorphia Family: Didelphidae Genus: Marmosops Species: M. incanus Binomial name Marmosops incanus (Lund, 1841) Gray slender opossum range...
the state's economy. In the mid-19th century, Danish paleontologist PeterWilhelmLund discovered, in the Lagoa Santa region, human remains belonging to...
naturalist PeterWilhelmLund accompanied by the German botanist Ludwig Riedel in October 1834. There he used the name "Pedro Claudio Dinamarquez", and Lund stayed...
Middle East (Peter Glob, Peter Rowley-Conwy), the Mediterranean region (Peter Oluf Brøndsted, Jörgen Zoega) the Americas (PeterWilhelmLund, Frans Blom...
converted to Catholicism, or more recently, other forms of Protestantism. PeterWilhelmLund, palaeontologist and zoologist Erling Lorentzen, industrialist Robert...
The specific name, lundii, is in honor of Danish paleontologist PeterWilhelmLund. Heterodactylus lundii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed...
glyptodontine, Hoplophorus euphractus, when Danish paleontologist PeterWilhelmLund published a series of memoirs on the fossils of Lagoa Santa in Brazil...
(1817–1863), professor of chemistry Bodil Jerslev Lund (1919–2005), Danish chemist and pharmacist PeterWilhelmLund (1801–1880), paleontologist and zoologist...
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