About Otto Zdansky
Lived 1894 – 1988 (aged 94). Otto Zdansky was an Austrian and Swedish paleontologist, archaeologist, prehistorian, anthropologist and paleoanthropologist.
Otto Karl Josef Zdansky (28 November 1894, Vienna – 26 December 1988, Uppsala) was an Austrian paleontologist.
Biography He graduated from the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Paleontology on 21 March 1921, with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Über die Temporalregion des Schildkrötenschädels'). when he published it in Nature after an analysis by Davidson Black. He is also famous for his excavations of mammal fossils in Baode County area (Pao Te Hsien), Shanxi Province. Zdansky in 1923 excavated the sauropod dinosaur Euhelopus zdanskyi named after him.
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Who was Otto Zdansky?
Austrian paleontologist (1894–1988)
When was Otto Zdansky born?
Otto Zdansky was born on 28 November 1894 in Vienna.
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Otto Zdansky died on 26 December 1988 in Uppsala.
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Otto Zdansky was a paleontologist, archaeologist, prehistorian, anthropologist and paleoanthropologist.
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Otto Zdansky was Austrian and Swedish.
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