Eigil Nielsen (paleontologist)

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Eigil Hans Aage Nielsen
Born(1910-08-16)16 August 1910
Palaeontologist
Parent(s)Hans Peder Nielsen (father)
Ellen Nielsen (mother)

Eigil Hans Aage Nielsen (16 August 1910 – 8 December 1968) was a Danish

bony fish.[1]

Life

Eigil Nielsen was born in

Geological Museum in Copenhagen. He had been a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 1965. He died in Gentofte on 8 December 1968 after a long illness.[1]

Research

Nielsen is mostly known for his in-depth monographs on Triassic ray-finned fishes from East Greenland (Australosomus, Birgeria, Boreosomus, Pteronisculus), which were colleced from the Wordie Creek Formation during several expeditions. He also wrote studies on other Triassic ray-finned fishes (Bobasatrania, Errolichthys), Permian Chondrichthyes, Triassic amphibians, and Eocene bony fishes and turtles, among others. He also published several popular science articles in Danish.

He took part in

Geological Survey of Greenland
(GEUS).

In 1950, Nielsen did field research in the Himalayas (

artifacts.[1]

Legacy

Nielsen named two

temnospondyl amphibian, Tupilakosaurus
.

A

ray-finned fish, Eigilia nielseni,[5] and a genus of Devonian lungfish, Nielsenia,[6]
are named in his honor.

Selected publications

  • Nielsen, E. 1932. Permo-Carboniferous fishes from East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 86 (3), p. 1–63.
  • Nielsen, E. 1935. The Permian and Eotriassic vertebrate-bearing beds at Godthaab Gulf (East Greenland). Meddelelser om Grønland 98, 1–111.
  • Nielsen, E. 1936. Some few preliminary remarks on Triassic fishes from East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 112 (3), p. 1–55.
  • Nielsen, E. 1942. Studies on Triassic fishes from East Greenland 1. Glaucolepis and Boreosomus. Palaeozoologica Groenlandica 1, p. 1–403.
  • Nielsen, E. 1949. Studies on Triassic fishes from East Greenland 2. Australosomus and Birgeria. Palaeozoologica Groenlandica 3, p. 1–309.
  • Nielsen, E. 1952. A preliminary note on Bobasatrania groenlandica. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 12 (12), p. 197–204.
  • Nielsen, E. 1952. On new or little known Edestidae from the Permian and Triassic of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 144, p. 1–55.
  • Nielsen, E. 1954: Tupilakosaurus heilmani n. g. et n. sp. an interesting batrachomorph from the Triassic of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 722 (8), 1–33.
  • Nielsen, E. 1955. Notes on Triassic fishes from Madagascar. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 12, p. 563–578.
  • Nielsen, E. 1959. Eocene turtles from Denmark. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 14, 96–114.
  • Nielsen, E. 1960. A new Eocene teleost from Denmark. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 14, 247–252.
  • Nielsen, E. 1961. On the Eotriassic fish faunas of central east Greenland. In: Geology of the Arctic 1 (ed. G. O. Raasch), p. 255–257. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada.
  • Nielsen, E. 1963. On the postcranial skeleton of Eosphargis breineri Nielsen. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 15, 281–313.
  • Nielsen, E. 1967. New observations on the skull-roof of the holotype of Tupilakosaurus heilmani Nielsen. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 47, 311, 225–229.

References

  1. ^ a b c Bendix-Almgreen, Svend Erik (1970). "Eigil Nielsen 16. August 1910 – 8. December 1968" (PDF). Dansk Geologisk Forening (in Danish). 1970: 87–96.
  2. ^ Aldinger, Hermann (1937). "Permische Ganoidfische aus Ostgrönland". Meddelelser om Grønland. 102 (3): 1–392.
  3. doi:10.1017/S001675680009261X
    .
  4. doi:10.1080/03745481.1942.9755520
    .
  5. ^ Kazantseva-Selezneva, Al'vina A. (1977). "On the systematics and the phylogeny of the order Palaeonisciformes [K sisteme i filogenii otryada Palaeonisciformes].". In V. V. Menner (ed.). Essays on the phylogeny and systematics of fossil fishes and agnathans [Ocerki po filogenii i sistematike iskopaemyh ryb i bescelustnyh] (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. pp. 98–115.
  6. ^ Lehman, Jean Pierre (1959). "Les dipneustes du Dévonien supérieur du Groenland". Meddelelser om Grønland (in French). 160: 1–58.

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