Eduard Ivanovich Eichvald (on the 200th anniversary of the beginning of scientific activity)

E. Eichwald is an outstanding Russian natural scientist who was engaged in medicine, zoology, geology, archeology, ethnography and paleontology. E.I. Eichwald for the first time in Russia began teaching paleontology. His dissertation on modern Selachian (Chondrichthyan fishes), was published in 1819. He is the author of the multi-volume work “Paleontology of Russia”, published in Russian and French. The collection for this monograph is stored in the Paleontological and Stratigraphic Museum of St. Petersburg State University. Among the samples of this collection are the teeth of Jurassic, Cretaceous and Cenozoic sharks. The article contains new definitions and images of shark teeth from the collection of E. Eichwald.