Background
Huene was born in Tübingen, Kingdom of Württemberg.
paleontologist university professor
Huene was born in Tübingen, Kingdom of Württemberg.
University of Tübingen.
He also made key contributions about various Permo-Carboniferous limbed vertebrates. His discoveries include the skeletons of more than 35 individuals of Plateosaurus in the famous Trossingen quarry, the early proto-dinosaur Saltopus in 1910, Proceratosaurus in 1926, the giant Antarctosaurus in 1929, and numerous other dinosaurs and fossilized animals like pterosaurs. He also was the first to naming several higher taxa, including Prosauropoda and Sauropodomorpha.
He visited the Geopark of Paleorrota in 1928, and there collected the Prestosuchus chiniquensis in 1938.
In his work on mesosaurs, Huene indicated that a lower temporal fenestra was present (as in synapsids), an interpretation later rejected by many subsequent workers, but more recently upheld. Liassaurus huenei, an early carnivorous theropod, was named for him in 1995 though the genus is invalid.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Paläontologische Gesellschaft]
He also studied several Permo-Carboniferous and Triassic limbed vertebrates, including members of several large clades, such as Temnospondyli, Synapsida, and Sauropsida.
