the naturalist you mentioned, has he discovered or described anything else?
He was the first to discover the Siwalik fossil beds and possibly the first person to discover a fossil ape.
Hugh Falconer
He was the first to discover the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape.
where could you find columbian mammoth? North America to Costa Rica who described it? Naturalist Hugh Falconer have they been extinct? Yes, it became extinct during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
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Hugh Falconer [SEP] Introduction
Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He was the first to discover the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape.