La collezione di fossili di Georg Gasser

The Museum of Nature South Tyrol houses about 3500 fossils belonging to the early 20th century private collection of Georg Gasser. Vertebrates make up only 10% of ...

To build up his collections, Gasser needed contact to dealers and other collectors from whom he could obtain new specimens. The archives of the Museum of Nature So...

At the end of the 19th century, the naturalist and artist Georg Gasser assembled a rich palaeontological collection, which included several trace fossils. The coll...

Among the documents of Georg Gasser’s legacy, the archives of the Museum of Nature South Tyrol preserve a series of manuscripts of a work named “Über die Wund...

The Museum of Nature South Tyrol hosts the paleontological collection of Georg Gasser, a self-taught naturalist, who assembled the most important historical collec...

The Museum of Nature South Tyrol in Bolzano/Bozen houses a historical fossil collection, compiled at the turn of the 19th and 20th century by Georg Gasser (1857–...

Plant fossils from South Tyrol have been known since the 19th century, but they appear only rarely in the literature on the area; generally, paleontological descri...

Georg Gasser compiled catalogues for the different branches of his collection. The fossil collection was included in what he named his “naturhistorische Sammlung...

The paleontological collection of Georg Gasser gives important insights in the fossiliferous sites of the 19th and 20th century, and the fossils collected and stud...