Antonin Fritsch
Czech scientist
Died when: 81 years 138 days (976 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Antonín Jan Fric (in German: Anton Johann Fritsch, 30 June 1832 – 15 November 1913) was a Czech paleontologist, biologist and geologist, living during the Austria-Hungary era.
Professor at the Charles University and later became director of the National Museum in Prague.He became famous for his contributions on the field of Permo - Carboniferous ecosystems.
He also became known for finding fossils once attributed to dinosaurs - Albisaurus albinus and Ponerosteus exogyrarum and so far the only pterosaur known from the Czech Republic, Cretornis hlavaci.
The pterosaur was small with a wingspan of about 1.5 m and lived in the Turonian.The first true dinosaur known from the Czech Republic was discovered 90 years after Fric's death (in 2003).
It is a small ornithopod of Cenomanian age.Fritsch received the Lyell Medal from the Geological Society of London in 1902.
