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GEORG See also:AUGUST See also:GOLDFUSS (1782-1848) , See also:German palaeontologist, See also:born at Thurnau near See also:Bayreuth on the 18th of See also:April 1782, was educated at See also:Erlangen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1804 and became See also:professor of See also:zoology in 1818 . He was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and See also:mineralogy in the university of See also:Bonn . Aided by See also:Count G . See also:Munster he issued the important Petrefacta Germaniae (1826-1844), a See also:work which was intended to illustrate the invertebrate fossils of See also:Germany, but it was See also:left incomplete after the See also:sponges, See also:corals, crinoids, echinids and See also:part of the See also:mollusca had been figured . See also:Goldfuss died at Bonn on the 2nd of See also:October 1848 . |
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