Pierce Brodkorb

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Pierce Brodkorb with the tarsometatarsus of Titanis (dark) and another bird

William Pierce Brodkorb (September 29, 1908,

paleontologist.[1][2]

Interested in birds since childhood, he was taught to prepare birds at the age of 16. Later, he received the opportunity to work as a staff technician in the Ornithology Division of the

Field Museum. He entered the University of Michigan in 1933 and obtained his PhD degree in 1936.[2]

Subsequently, he became an assistant

Glen E. Woolfenden
.

From the 1950s, Brodkorb built up a huge collection of bird fossils from the Miocene, the Pliocene, and the Pleistocene of Florida, which included 12,500 skeletons from 129 families, and is on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History, part of the University of Florida. From 1963 to 1978, he published the Catalogue of Fossil Birds in five volumes.[1] In 1982, he became an honorary member of the Florida Ornithological Society.[citation needed]

Brodkorb described several prehistoric bird genera, such as

German (whence Brodkorb's family name originated) a Brotkorb.[citation needed
]

Hence, Foro panarium is the Latin translation of "Brodkorb Pierce", as the

Storrs Olson, in naming F. panarium, would have preferred the correct sequence of names (i.e. "Panarium foro"), but the genus name Panarium had already been used by Ernst Haeckel for some[4] spumellarian radiolarians.[citation needed
]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Walker, Cyril (5 August 1992). "Obituary: Pierce Brodkorb". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26.
  2. ^ a b Olson, Storrs (1993). "In Memoriam: Pierce Brodkorb (1908-1992)" (PDF). The Auk.
  3. ^ Mourer-Chauvire, Cecile (November 1992). "In Memoriam: Pierce Brodkorb". Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution Information Letter (6).
  4. ^ Today included in Didymocyrtis, or Ommatartus if that genus is accepted as distinct.

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