Wilhelm Dames
Deceased Person
1843 – 1898
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Who was Wilhelm Dames?
Wilhelm Dames was a German paleontologist of the Berlin University, who described the first complete specimen of the early bird Archaeopteryx in 1894. This specimen is currently in the Museum für Naturkunde.
Dames was also the first to describe an Archaeoceti fossil from Egypt in 1883.
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