Gilbert Klapper

Gilbert Klapper is a paleontologist.

In 1971, with Graeme M. Philip, he described the conodont family Cryptotaxidae and the conodont genus Cryptotaxis.¹

In 1981, he described the conodont families Distomodontidae and Kockelellidae.²

Awards

He received the Pander Medal, an award from the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology.

References

Devonian conodont apparatuses and their vicarious skeletal elements. G Klapper and GM Philip, Lethaia, Volume 4, Issue 4, pages 429–452, October 1971, doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1971.tb01865.x
Gilbert Klapper in Clark et al., Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part W: Miscellanea : Conodonts : Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils, and Problema, 1981

External links

Gilbert Klapper Archived 2016-08-18 at the Wayback Machine at Northwestern University website (retrieved 14 July 2016)

[1] Devonian conodont apparatuses and their vicarious skeletal elements. G Klapper and GM Philip, Lethaia, Volume 4, Issue 4, pages 429–452, October 1971, doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1971.tb01865.x

[2] Gilbert Klapper in Clark et al., Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part W: Miscellanea : Conodonts : Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils, and Problema, 1981

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