Fossil birds named after Swedish scientists (1 Viewer)

Struthionidae

Struthio wimani Lowe, 1931.
Named after Carl Johan Josef Ernst Wiman (March 10th 1867 - June 15th 1944), Professor in paleontology in Upsula, who led the scientific work in the material collected by the Swedish-Chinese Expedition.

Spheniscidae

Archaeospheniscus wimani (Marples, 1953).
Notodyptes wimani Marples, 1953.
Named after Carl Johan Josef Ernst Wiman (March 10th 1867 - June 15th 1944), Professor in paleontology in Uppsula, who in 1905 wrote two papers on the Penguins of Seymour Island (Antarctica) (Carl Wiman, 1905: Über die Alttertiären Vertebraten der Seymourinsel. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903 3: I: 1-37, Stockholm and Vorläufige Mitteilung die Alttertiären Vertebraten der Seymourinsel Bulletin from the Geological Institute of Upsala, Volume VI, Part I: 247-252).

Palaeospheniscus wimani (Ameghino, 1905).
Perispheniscus wimani Ameghino, 1905.
The name honors Carl Johan Josef Ernst Wiman, the first professor in Paleontology at the University of Uppsala for his contributions to paleornithology.

Anthropornis nordenskjoeldii Wiman, 1905.
Because this is the biggest of the species found Wiman named this species for Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld, leader of the expedition.

Paraptenodytes robustus (Ameghino, 1894).
Isotremornis nordenskjöldi Ameghino, 1905.
Named for Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld.

See also: Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Jonas Hagström, Marcelo Reguero & Thomas Mörs, 2017
Historical perspective of Otto Nordenskjöld’s Antarctic penguin fossil collection and Carl Wiman’s contribution

Polar Record Published online: 07 June 2017

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journ...735E57DBBDDF5F

Free pdf: https://www.researchgate.net/publica...s_contribution

Enjoy,

Fred

Fred, a minor detail; the name of the Swedish University town, where Carl Wiman lived and worked, is Uppsala, (earlier written Upsala), not Uppsula nor Upsula.

The same guy (and others) have earlier been dealt with in the tread Some extinct, very extinct, (sub)fossil species and their eponyms (here).

Björn
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Oops, a stuped typo, but further in my contribution I got it right (I have to get better glasses). And Otto Nordenskjöld was not included in the thread you refer to.

Fred