Immanuel Walch and his Trilobites

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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

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Today we go back farther in time then we have ever gone before – both with our creature and with our paleontologist. I present Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch, born in 1725 in Jena.  His father was a theologian and he himself studied semitic languages, mathematics and natural science. 1745 he gained the Master’s degree in Philosophy and two years later went on an extensive travel through Europe with his brother. Immanuel was very active and also very successful in the scientific community of Germany, several times he was dean or director of various institutions, and also the publisher of two scientific journals. He was especially interested in Geology and a fossil collector himself. His collections still exist today at the University of Jena.

 In 1771 he introduced the term “Trilobite” in one of his articles. Now these little creatures belong to the Arthropod phylum and appear as early as 500 million years ago. Since over 15.000 species are known it is safe to say they come in all shapes and sizes and were an important part of marine life throughout the Paleozoic. Although they did not make it through the great Permian Extinction they still hold their place as some of the most well-known fossils.

Here is a portrait of Immanuel:

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