Jean Piveteau
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Jean Piveteau | |
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Died | 7 March 1991 | (aged 91)
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]
Legacy
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.
References
- ^ Institut de France Académie des sciences. "Membres". Archived from the original on 2009-05-25. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
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