Jacques Louis Marin Defrance
Jacques Louis Marin Defrance , ( October 22, 1758 - November 12, 1850 ) was a French businessman, zoologist , botanist and paleontologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Defrance ".
Life
Defrance was a wealthy businessman in Paris and collected natural history objects, especially fossils from the Paris Basin and Normandy. His paleontological collection is in the Natural History Museum in Caen.
He published in the Mémoires du Muséum , Annales des sciences naturelles and in the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles . He was one of the founders of the French geological society. He was one of the first to study the conditions of fossilization and a pioneer of biostratigraphy.
He was the first to introduce the name Pleurotomaria (1826) into paleontology for a genus of Jurassic snails.
literature
- Alexandre Bigot: Jacques-Louis-Marin Defrance, 1758–1850, Annuaire des cinq départements de la Normandie, year no.108, 1943
Fonts
- Tableau Des Corps Organizations Fossiles: Précédé De Remarques Sur Leur Pétrification, Paris 1824, gallica
Web links
- Information on Jacques Louis Marin Defrance in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
References and comments
- ↑ Thomas Servais et al. a. Paleontology in France: 200 years in the footsteps of Cuvier and Lamarck, Palaeontologia Electronica, pdf
- ^ John A. Harper, Reflections on Worthenia Tabulata (Conrad), Pennsylvania's very elegant fossil snail, Pennsylvania Geology, Spring 2014, pdf , p. 6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Defrance, Jacques Louis Marin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French businessman, zoologist, botanist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1758 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1850 |