- Carl Wiman
Carl Wiman (1867-1944) was a Swedish
paleontologist and the first professor of paleontology atUppsala University .cite web |url=http://www.paleobiologi.geo.uu.se/Download/Life&Earth.pdf |title=Life and Earth History |accessdate=2007-07-18 |last=Holmer |first=Lars |year=2000 |format=PDF |publisher=Lars Holmer Uppsala Universitet |pages=38 |language=English ] He published on a variety of topics, includingextinct penguin s,cite journal |last=Wiman |first=Carl |year=1905 |title=Vorläufige Mitteilung über die alttertiären Vertebraten der Seymourinsel |journal=Bulletin of the Geological Institute of Uppsala |volume=6 |pages=247–253 |language=German] anddinosaur fossils sent to Sweden from China and theSan Juan Basin ofNew Mexico (U.S.A.). He is responsible for naming the genera "Helopus " (renamed "Euhelopus " because "Helopus" was already in use) and "Tanius ",cite journal |last=Wiman |first=Carl |year=1930 |title=Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung |journal=Palaeontologia Sinica, series C |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=1–67 |language=German] and the species "Pentaceratops fenestratus"cite journal |last=Wiman |first=Carl |year=1930 |title=Über Ceratopsia aus der Oberen Kreide in New Mexico |journal=Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientarum Upsaliensis, series 4 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=1–19 |language=German] and "Parasaurolophus tubicen".cite journal |last=Wiman |first=Carl |year=1931 |title="Parasaurolophus tubicen", n. sp. aus der Kreide in New Mexico |journal=Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, series 4 |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=1–11 |language=German] He was also the first to suggest that the hollow cranial crests oflambeosaurine duckbill dinosaurs could be used as a horn-like noisemaker. "Wiman's Law" states that thestolon of dendroidgraptolite s divides in groups of three: "one branch went into the bitheca, one into the autotheca, and one continued up along the stipe."He is recognized for his contributions to paleontology in the names of the extinct penguins "
Archaeospheniscus wimani " and "Palaeospheniscus wimani ", and thesauropod dinosaur "Borealosaurus wimani".References
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