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Jun 30, 1832 Prague, Czech Republic Died on 15 Nov 1913 (aged 81)
Czech geologist and paleontologist
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About Antonin Fritsch
- Antonín Jan Fric (in German: Anton Johann Fritsch, June 30, 1832 – November 15, 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.
