Catalogue of Schmidt's trilobites (1881-1907)

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Dear Paleonetters

The Palaeontological Museum, University of Oslo, has now published a
catalogue of the trilobites specimens described and figured by Friedrich
Schmidt in his voluminous monograph "Revision der ostbaltischen silurishen
Trilobiten" (7 volumes from 1881 to 1907). This work is a standard reference
for all trilobite workers and stratigraphers concerned with the Ordovician
of Baltoscandia. A problem with the monograph has been that the specimens
are not identified in the figures. It was feared that during the upheavals
in Russia since the publication of the last volume (1907), the collection
was destroyed. This has, fortunately, proved not to be the case. During a
stay in Moscow in April-96 and in St Petersburg in May-96, David Bruton,
Lessanu T. Beyene and myself were able to trace and identify about 70% of
the original 1408 specimens. That so many specimens has survived is a
tribute to the good work done under difficult circumstances by the Russian
reseachers and staff at the Museums.

The catalogue is divided into four parts:

The introduction has a small biography of F. Schmidt, a history of the
collection and a report on its present status and that of its repositories
in Russia and correlation charts for the Ordovician and Silurian of the east
Baltic, tying Schmidt's units into a modern framework.

Part 1 is an alphabetical list of taxa with reference to volume (part),
plate and figure or text-figure with page reference, Museum catalogue number
( or listed as "missing"), Stratigraphical occurrence and locality data.

Part 2 is a list of taxa in the order they are figured according to volume
(part), plate and figure reference. The present corresponding museum
catalogue number is given for reference. The full information on the
specimen is found in Part 1

Part 3 is a taxonomic revision of almost all the species described by
Schmidt, based mostly on the available litterature. Revised binomen, with
reference to the revisor(s) is given. Where no reference is given, the
revision is that of the present authors.


The catalogue's full title is:

-David L. Bruton, Ole A. Hoel, Lessanu T. Beyene & Andrei Yu. Ivantsov (1997):

-Catalogue of the trilobites figured in Friedrich Schmidt's "Revision der
ostbaltischen silurischen Trilobiten" (1881-1907).


It's serial number is "Contribution from the Palaeontological Museum,
University of Oslo, No. 403" (117 pp), and may be obtained from:

Paleontologisk Museum
Sars gate 1
N-0562 OSLO
NORWAY

e-mail: m.a.fidjeland@toyen.uio.no
Ole A. Hoel
Paleontologisk Museum
Sars Gate 1
N-0562 OSLO
NORWAY

E-mail: o.a.hoel@toyen.uio.no