Klaus J. Müller
Klaus Jürgen Müller (born 6 February 1923 in Berlin, died 12 March 2010 in Bonn) was a German paleontologist, most famous for the discovery of Orsten-type preservation.
In 1956, he described the Devonian conodont genus Palmatolepis.[1]
In 1959, he described the Cambrian conodont genera Furnishina, Hertzina and Westergaardodina, and the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.[2]
In 1962, he described the conodont order Paraconodontida.[3]
Awards and tributes
[edit]In 2003, he was awarded the Pander medal by the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology.
The conodont genus name Muellerilepis Bardashev & Bardasheva (2013) is a tribute to K.J.Müller. It is replacement generic name for Muellerina Bardashev et Bardasheva, 2012,[4] which is a preoccupied name. The phosphatocopine genus Klausmuelleria is also named after him.
References
[edit]- ^ Zur Kenntnis der Conodonten-Fauna des europäischen Devons. 1. Die Gattung Palmatolepis. KJ Müller, 1956
- ^ Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, Band 111, 1959, pages 434-485
- ^ Supplement to systematics of conodonts. KJ Müller and RC Moore, in Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part W: Miscellanea : Conodonts Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils, and Problema, 1962 - Geological Society of America
- ^ Muellerilepis, a new replacement generic name for Muellerina Bardashev et Bardasheva, 2012 (Conodonta). I. A. Bardashev; N. P. Bardasheva, Paleontological Journal, 2013, volume 47, issue 5, pages 554, doi:10.1134/S0031030113050055
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