Walter C. Sweet's scientific contributions

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Figure 2 Plate 1 from Pander (1856) illustrating a variety of the...
Figure 3 Plate 2 from Pander (1856) illustrating both 'simple' and...
Figure 4 Plate 2A from Pander (1856) illustrating conodont elements of...
Figure 5 Plate 3 from Pander (1856). Specimens on the left are 'simple'...
C.H. Pander's introduction to conodonts, 1856
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  • Dec 2008
It is rare in the annals of science for a single publication to provide a definitive introduction to a previously unknown group of animals. Yet this was the case with the monograph that included the initial descriptions of an important, extinct group of fossil animals: the conodonts. The publication, by Christian Heinrich Pander, appeared in St Pet...

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... Logically this volume commences with Christian Heinrich Pander (1794-1865), long-time resident of modern day Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire and the unchallenged conodont discoverer, who make his remarkable finding sometime around 1848-1850. Pander remains a hero because his 1856 monograph, published in German in St Petersburg, stands as a classic paper that provided much correct assessment despite many subsequent reinterpretations (Sweet & Cooper 2008). Today conodont researchers gather as the "Pander Society". ...
Reference: The Great Fossil Enigma
C.H. Pander's introduction to conodonts, 1856
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  • Dec 2008