Éric Buffetaut
Éric Buffetaut | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 November 1950 |
| Alma mater | Université de Paris |
| Known for | Archosaur research |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology |
| Institutions | Centre national de la recherche scientifique |
Éric Buffetaut (born 19 November 1950) is a French paleontologist, author and researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1976 where he is a Doctor of Science and Director of Research. Buffetaut is a specialist of fossil archosaurs, mainly dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and has published many books on paleontology. He is one of the major paleontologists to support the thesis of the fall of a meteorite as the main cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Notable works
[edit | edit source]Buffetaut named and described the following species:
- Archaeodontosaurus descouensi
- Castignovolucris sebei
- Euthecodon arambourgi
- Isanosaurus attavipachi
- Isalorhynchus genovefae
- Kinnareemimus khonkaenensis
- Normannognathus wellnhoferi
- Phuwiangosaurus sirindhornae
- Psittacosaurus sattayaraki
- Rhabdodon septimanicus (now in the genus Obelignathus)
- Siamamia naga
- Siamosaurus suteethorni
- Siamotyrannus isanensis
- Tarascosaurus salluvicus
- Tilemsisuchus lavocati
- Trematochampsa taqueti
- Variraptor mechinorum
Buffetaut demonstrated in 1982 that Dakosaurus and Aggiosaurus are actually members of the Metriorhynchidae.[1]
In 1997, the crocodylomorph Musturzabalsuchus buffetauti was named in his honor.[2] In 2025, the ctenochasmatid pterosaur Garudapterus buffetauti was named in his honor.[3]
Buffeataut works mainly with Mesozoic reptiles including crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs and dinosaurs.[4]
Selected publications
[edit | edit source]- Les Dinosaures. Que sais-je ? n°2827, PUF, 1994 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Les Dinosaures de France, avec Pascal Robin, BRGM Éditions 1995 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Histoire de la paléontologie. Que sais-je ? n°2190, PUF, avril 1997 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Les Mondes disparus, atlas de la dérive des continents, avec Jean Le Loeuff, Guy Le Roux, Berg International, 1998 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Dans les traces des dinosaures, Les Éditions Pocket Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- La Fin des dinosaures : comment les grandes extinctions ont façonné le monde vivant., Fayard, 2003 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Les Dinosaures. Collection "Idées reçues n°123. Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 2006 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Les dinosaures sont-ils un échec de l'évolution ?. Éditions du Pommier, 2008 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Que nous racontent les fossiles ?, éditions du Pommier, 2009 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Sommes-nous tous voués à disparaître ? idées reçues sur l'extinction des espèces, Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 2012, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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References
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- ^ Buffetaut E. 1982. Aggiosaurus nicaeensis Ambayrac, 1913, from the Upper Jurassic of south-eastern France: A marine crocodilian, not a dinosaur. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte (8): 469-475.
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