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