In 1846 he became a member of Dresden's scientific society ISIS, led by Ludwig Reichenbach.
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It was briefly described and figured by Georges Cuvier in 1822 from Late Eocene material from Montmartre, France, though not formally described and named until 1852 by German botanist and ornithologist Ludwig Reichenbach as an early pelecanid.