Jean Piveteau

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Jean Piveteau
Born	(1899-09-23)23 September 1899 Rouillac
Died	7 March 1991(1991-03-07) (aged 91) Paris
Occupation	Palaeontologist

Jean Piveteau (23 September 1899 – 7 March 1991) was a distinguished French vertebrate paleontologist. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1956 and served as the institute's president in 1973.^[1]

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Two genera of Triassic fish, the actinopterygian Piveteaunotus and the actinistian Piveteauia, and a genus of Middle Jurassic theropod dinosaur, Piveteausaurus, are named in his honor.

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