Carlo Bonaparte and his Sivatherium

PART 1 Thomas Jefferson and his Ground Sloth fav.me/d7g6m1e 

PART 2 Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur fav.me/d7ybszx

PART 3 Charles Darwin and his Toxodon fav.me/d80hum8

PART 4 Gideon Mantell and his Iguanodon fav.me/d826xjg

PART 5 William Buckland and his Megalosaur fav.me/d83zg9s

PART 6 Hermann von Meyer and his Archaeopteryx fav.me/d86761e

PART 7 Georges Cuvier and his Mastodon fav.me/d88cp56

PART 8 Edward D. Cope and his Dimetrodon fav.me/d89umu9

PART 9 Othniel C. Marsh and his Triceratops fav.me/d8bp0tr

PART 10 Eduard Suess and his Struthiosaurus fav.me/d8e0aqc

PART 11 Richard Owen and his Gorgonops fav.me/d8g9cbf

PART 12 Johann Blumenbach and his Megaloceros fav.me/d8if1nn

PART 13 Barbara Rawdon-Hastings and her Diplocynodon fav.me/d8ks10o

PART 14 Wilhelm Lund and his Smilodon fav.me/d8lk4x6

PART 15 Lawrence Lambe and his Edmontosaurus fav.me/d8s02lr

PART 16 Edmond Hebert and his Gastornis fav.me/d90r8ay

PART 17 Joseph Leidy and his Direwolf fav.me/d9598c5

PART 18 Barnum Brown and his T-Rex fav.me/d977xsf

PART 19 Immanuel Walch and his Trilobites fav.me/d9a1qc9

PART 20 John Bell Hatcher and his Torosaurus

PART 21 Carlo Bonaparte and his Sivatherium

NEXT Karl von Zittel and his Ammonite

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To answer your first question: Yes he is related to Napoleon – he is his nephew.

He was a Biologist and Ornithologist and born in 1803. After growing up in Italy Carlo moved to the US in 1822, where he presented a paper on a new bird he had discovered. He continued his work by updating Wilsons American Ornithology but moved back to Italy in 1826, where he wrote a book about the Fauna of the country (Iconografia della Fauna Italica) and continued to lecture about American and European Ornithology. Being involved in politics as well he became a member of the Roman Assembly and helped create the Roman Republic declared in 1849. Let’s say it did not go so well and Carlo was ordered to leave after the Republic was defeated by the French. He eventually settled down in Paris where he became the director of the botanical Garden.

His contribution to Paleontology was mostly classification. For Example he created the subclasses of Holocephali and Elasmobranchii, as well as the Order Dinornithiformes to which the Moa belongs. In 1850 he also created the Subfamily of Sivatheriinae - to which the Sivatherium shown here belongs. These mammals are related to giraffes and they inhabited parts of Afrika, Europe and Asia during the Neogene and Quarternary. The Genus Sivatherium was discovered by Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley (who will get their own entry).

A picture of Carlo Bonaparte

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