Wilhelm Lund and his Smilodon

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

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

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Today’s entry is dedicated to Peter Wilhelm Lund. Originally from Denmark  he is considered the father of Brasilian Paleontology.  He was born in 1801 and started working in South America in 1825. In Minas Gerais he discovered several caves which contained more than 20.000 important fossils of the Ice Age Mega Fauna. Smilodon Populator was just one of the many creatures he named.

Apart from all this he also worked as an Archaeologist and discovered South American cave paintings as well as human remains mixed with the bones of extinct megafauna. Thus Lund managed to prove, that humans had co-existed with prehistoric animals which went against the belief of the time.

Here is a portrait of him:

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