Éric Buffetaut Explained

Éric Buffetaut
Birth Date:19 November 1950
Birth Place:Porte-Joie, Normandy, France
Nationality:French
Fields:Paleontology
Workplaces:Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Alma Mater:Université de Paris
Known For:Archosaur research

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

Buffetaut named and described the following species:

Buffetaut demonstrated in 1982 that Dakosaurus and Aggiosaurus are actually members of the Metriorhynchidae.[1]

Musturzabalsuchus buffetauti was named in his honor.[2]

Buffeataut worked mainly with Mesozoic reptiles including crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs and dinosaurs.[3]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. 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.
  2. Buscalioni . A. D. . Ortega, F. . Vasse, D. . 1997 . New crocodiles (Eusuchia: Alligatoroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Europe . Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série II . 325 . 7 . 525–530 . 10.1016/s1251-8050(97)89872-2. 1997CRASE.325..525B .
  3. Hendrickx. Christophe. Mateus. Octávio. Buffetaut. Eric. 2016-01-06. Morphofunctional Analysis of the Quadrate of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Presence of Spinosaurus and a Second Spinosaurine Taxon in the Cenomanian of North Africa.. PLOS ONE. en. 11. 1. e0144695. 10.1371/journal.pone.0144695. 1932-6203. 4703214. 26734729. 2016PLoSO..1144695H . free .