Hans Georg Stehlin

Hans Georg Stehlin (1870–1941) was a Swiss paleontologist and geologist.

Hans Georg Stehlin
Born	13 January 1870
Died	18 December 1941 (1941-12-19) (aged 71)
Nationality	Swiss
Known for	Grande Coupure
Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology, Geology
Institutions	Museum of Basel

Stehlin specialized in vertebrate paleontology, particularly the study of Cenozoic mammals. He published numerous scientific papers on primates and ungulates. He was president of the commission of the Natural History Museum of Basel.

In 1910 Stehlin coined the term Grande Coupure to refer to the extinction event which occurred 33.9 millions of years ago, which defines the Eocene-Oligocene limit. It originated a huge change in organisms, especially the mammals of Europe.^[1]

Stehlin is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Gallotia stehlini.^[2]

References

1. Stehlin, H.G. (1910). "Remarques sur les faunules de Mammifères des couches eocenes et oligocenes du Bassin de Paris ". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 4 (9): 488–520. (in French).
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 9781421401355 ("Stehlin", p. 252).

Bibliography

• Le Tensorer, Jean-Marie (1998). Le Paléolithique en Suisse. Jérôme Millon. ISBN 978-2-84137-063-4. Retrieved 3 April 2010.

External links

• Works by or about Hans Georg Stehlin at the Internet Archive
• Stehlin, H.G. (1903). "Die Säugetiere des schweizerischen Eocaens: critischer Catalog der Materialien " - Stehlin's paper on some mammals of the Eocene. (in German).