However, he also became distinguished for his researches on palaeontology, and especially for those on the fossils of the Jurassic system.
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It was first reported in 1888 for an occurrence in Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile and named by G. Linck in 1889 for the German mineralogist F. A. von Quenstedt.