Klaus J. Müller

Klaus Jürgen Müller (born 6 February 1923 in Berlin, died 12 March 2010 in Bonn) was a German paleontologist, most famous for the discovery of Orsten-type preservation.

In 1956, he described the Devonian conodont genus Palmatolepis.[1]

In 1959, he described the Cambrian conodont genera Furnishina, Hertzina and Westergaardodina, and the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.[2]

In 1962, he described the conodont order Paraconodontida.[3]

Awards and tributes

In 2003, he was awarded the Pander medal by the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology.

The conodont genus name Muellerilepis Bardashev & Bardasheva (2013) is a tribute to K.J.Müller. It is replacement generic name for Muellerina Bardashev et Bardasheva, 2012,[4] which is a preoccupied name. The phosphatocopine genus Klausmuelleria is also named after him.

References

1. Zur Kenntnis der Conodonten-Fauna des europäischen Devons. 1. Die Gattung Palmatolepis. KJ Müller, 1956
2. Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, Band 111, 1959, pages 434-485
3. Supplement to systematics of conodonts. KJ Müller and RC Moore, in Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part W: Miscellanea : Conodonts Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils, and Problema, 1962 - Geological Society of America
4. Muellerilepis, a new replacement generic name for Muellerina Bardashev et Bardasheva, 2012 (Conodonta). I. A. Bardashev; N. P. Bardasheva, Paleontological Journal, 2013, volume 47, issue 5, pages 554, doi:10.1134/S0031030113050055