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French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist
Henri Émile Sauvage
Born (1842-09-22 ) 22 September 1842Died 3 January 1917(1917-01-03) (aged 74)Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
Known for Discovery of
Mesozoic fish and reptiles Scientific career Fields
Paleontology ,
ichthyology ,
herpetology Institutions Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Boulogne-sur-Mer
Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in
Boulogne-sur-Mer – 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was a French
paleontologist ,
ichthyologist , and
herpetologist .
[1] He was a leading expert on
Mesozoic fish and reptiles.
[2]
He worked as a curator at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in
Boulogne-sur-Mer , and published extensively on
Late Jurassic dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the
Boulonnais region of northern France.
[3] He made important contributions involving vertebrate palaeontology in
Portugal , describing in 1897,
Suchosaurus girardi from jaw fragments found in that country.
[2]
From 1883 to 1896, he served as director of the station aquicole in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He was a member of the
Société géologique de France .
[4]
In 1893
Philippe Thomas published the palaeontological results of the Tunisian Scientific Exploration Mission (1885–1886) in six installments plus an atlas, including the work of
Victor-Auguste Gauthier (
sea urchins ),
Arnould Locard (
Mollusca ), Auguste Péron (
Brachiopods ,
Bryozoa and
Pentacrinitess ) and Henri Émile Sauvage (
fish ).
[5]
The
plesiosaurid species
Lusonectes sauvagei commemorates his name,
[6] as do the
crustacean species Pseudanthessius sauvagei
[7] and the
gecko species
Bavayia sauvagii .
[8]
Works
Note sur les geckotiens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie , 1878.
[8]
Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Épinac , 1889–97 (with
Frédéric Delafond ,
Michel Lévy ,
Bernard Renault ,
René Zeiller , 7 volumes).
[9]
Histoire naturelle des poissons , (1891); in
Alfred Grandidier 's Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar .
[10]
Vertébrés fossiles du Portugal: Contributions à l'étude des poissons et des reptiles du jurassique et du crétacique , (1897).
[11]
Musées municipaux de Boulogne-sur-Mer , 1898.
[4]
"Amphibious Fishes" in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, September 1876
"The Archer-Fishes" in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, January 1878
"The Matamata" in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16, March 1880.
[12]
Biography: La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Sauvage ; Author: Casimir Cépède. Publisher: Boulogne-sur-Mer :Imprimerie G. Hamain, 1923.
[13]
See also
References
^ Wikispecies
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b
Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective edited by Richard Moody
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The Complete Dinosaur edited by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow
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b
Data.BnF.fr Henri-Émile Sauvage (1842-1917)
^ Burollet, Pierre F. (21 June 1995),
"L'exploration de la Tunisie avant la première guerre mondiale " , Travaux du Comitée français d'Histoire de la Géologie (in French), 9 (3), Comité Français d'Histoire de la Géologie (COFRHIGEO) (séance du 21 juin 1995): 111–122, retrieved 2017-07-29
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica A New Plesiosauroid from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alhadas, Portugal
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BEMON Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. S
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a
b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.
ISBN
978-1-4214-0135-5 . ("Sauvage", p. 233).
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HathiTrust Digital Library Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Epinac.
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WorldCat Title Histoire naturelle des poissons
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Open Library published works
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English Wikisource Articles in Popular Science Monthly
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WorldCat Title La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Sauvage
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