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Friedrich von Huene (March 22, 1875 – April 4, 1969) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 paleontologist who named more dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
.

Huene was born in Tübingen
Tübingen

T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....
, Kingdom of Württemberg
Kingdom of Württemberg

The Kingdom of W?rttemberg was a state that existed from 1806 to 1918 and is currently located in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany....
. His discoveries include the skeletons of a herd of more than 35 Plateosaurus
Plateosaurus

Plateosaurus is a genus of Plateosauridae prosauropoda dinosaur that lived during the Norian and Rhaetian stages of the Late Triassic Period , around 216 to 199 annum in what is now Europe....
 that were buried in a mudslide, the early proto-dinosaur Saltopus
Saltopus

Saltopus is a genus of very small bipedal dinosauriform, roughly 60 centimeters long, not much bigger than a rabbit, that was discovered in Scotland by Friedrich von Huene in 1910....
 in 1910, Proceratosaurus
Proceratosaurus

Proceratosaurus is a genus of medium-sized carnivore theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England. It was originally thought to be an ancestor of Ceratosaurus, due to the similar small crest on its snout....
 in 1926, the giant Antarctosaurus
Antarctosaurus

'Antarctosaurus' is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. The type species, A....
 in 1929, and numerous other dinosaurs and fossil
Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or trace fossil of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in fossiliferous Rock formations and sedimentary rock layers is known as the fossil record....
ized animals like pterosaur
Pterosaur

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or Order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight....
s.






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Friedrich von Huene (March 22, 1875 – April 4, 1969) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 paleontologist who named more dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
.

Huene was born in Tübingen
Tübingen

T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....
, Kingdom of Württemberg
Kingdom of Württemberg

The Kingdom of W?rttemberg was a state that existed from 1806 to 1918 and is currently located in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany....
. His discoveries include the skeletons of a herd of more than 35 Plateosaurus
Plateosaurus

Plateosaurus is a genus of Plateosauridae prosauropoda dinosaur that lived during the Norian and Rhaetian stages of the Late Triassic Period , around 216 to 199 annum in what is now Europe....
 that were buried in a mudslide, the early proto-dinosaur Saltopus
Saltopus

Saltopus is a genus of very small bipedal dinosauriform, roughly 60 centimeters long, not much bigger than a rabbit, that was discovered in Scotland by Friedrich von Huene in 1910....
 in 1910, Proceratosaurus
Proceratosaurus

Proceratosaurus is a genus of medium-sized carnivore theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England. It was originally thought to be an ancestor of Ceratosaurus, due to the similar small crest on its snout....
 in 1926, the giant Antarctosaurus
Antarctosaurus

'Antarctosaurus' is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. The type species, A....
 in 1929, and numerous other dinosaurs and fossil
Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or trace fossil of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in fossiliferous Rock formations and sedimentary rock layers is known as the fossil record....
ized animals like pterosaur
Pterosaur

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or Order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight....
s. He also was the first to describe several higher taxa, including Prosauropoda
Prosauropoda

Prosauropoda or prosauropods were a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Triassic and early Jurassic periods. They were frequently the predominant herbivore in their environment, and quickly reached large size ....
 and Sauropodomorpha
Sauropodomorpha

The Sauropodomorpha were a group of long-necked, herbivore dinosaurs that eventually dropped down on quadruped and became the largest animals that ever terrestrial animal....
.

Liassaurus
Liassaurus

"Liassaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a probable ceratosaur which lived in what is now Europe....
 huenei, an early carnivorous
Carnivore

A carnivore , meaning 'meat eater' , is any animal with a diet consisting mainly of meat, whether it comes from animals living or dead .In a more general sense, an animal may be considered a carnivore if it prefers feeding on animal matter over plant matter....
 theropod, was named for him in 1995 though the genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 may be invalid.