The Mayer-Eymar collection of Cenozoic mollusks

Abstract Karl Mayer (later Karl Mayer-Eymar, 1826–1906) was a stratigrapher and palaeontologist who assembled during his long career a collection of Cenozoic (then “Tertiary”) mollusks that numbers more than 500′000 specimens. He mostly collected them himself at various localities in Europe and Egyp...

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Main Author: Walter Etter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-10-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-022-00258-y