| Maurice Collignon | |
| Birth Name: | Maurice Jules Marie Collignon |
| Birth Date: | 9 June 1893 |
| Birth Place: | Saint-Malo, France |
| Death Place: | Moirans, france |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | geologist, paleontologist |
| Known For: | research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar |
| Notable Works: | ammonite family Collignoniceratidae |
| Education: | military academy at Saint-Cyr |
Maurice Jules Marie Collignon (9 June 1893, Saint-Malo – 21 October 1978, Moirans) was a French geologist and paleontologist, who is best known for his research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar.
A career military officer, in 1914 he received his diploma from the military academy at Saint-Cyr, then spent the next 36 years associated with the French armed services. In the meantime he conducted geological and paleontological research; as early as 1928 he was providing descriptions of ammonite fauna from Madagascar.[1] In 1950 he retired from military service with the rank of major general. He then joined the Service géologique d'outre-mer as a paleontologist,[2] [3] and afterwards directed four 6-month missions of paleontological exploration in Madagascar (1952, 1953, 1954, 1957).[1]
From 1959 to 1978 he was a correspondent member of the Académie des sciences.[3] During his career, he described numerous fossil taxa, such as the ammonite genus Cunningtoniceras. The ammonite family Collignoniceratidae commemorates his name.[4] [5]