Albert Oppel (1831–65)

German palaeontologist. Studied at Tübingen, 1851–3; student of Quenstedt. Travelled in Europe. Assistant in the Bavarian State Palaeontological Collection, Munich, 1858; professor extraordinarius, 1860; professor of palaeontology, 1861. Subdivided the Jurassic system into thirty-three zones using palaeontological content rather than lithographical features, allowing deposits to be correlated across countries.