High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (September 3, 1801 - April 2, 1869) was a German palaeontologist. He was born at Frankfurt am Main. In 1832 von Meyer issued a work entitled Palaeologica, and in course of time he published a series of memoirs on various fossil organic remains: molluscs, crustaceans, fishes and higher vertebrata, including the Triassic predator Teratosaurus, the earliest bird Archaeopteryx lithographica (1861), the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, and the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus.