Jean-Claude Gall

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Jean-Claude Gall (born May 19, 1936 ) is a French paleontologist . He is known for the investigation of the exceptionally well-preserved fossils of the famous fossil deposits of the Voltziensandstein of the Vosges from the red sandstone .

Gall studied natural sciences at the University of Strasbourg with the degree (Agrégation de Sciences naturelles) in 1961. He then worked as an assistant at the Geological Institute and received his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on the paleoecology of the upper red sandstone of the Northern Vosges. In 1978 he became professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Strasbourg.

He is particularly concerned with paleoecology and taphonomy , where he researched the influence of microbial mats on fossilization.

In addition to the Voltziensandstein, he also dug in the Jurassic plate limestone of Cerin for over 20 years .

In 2002 he received with Léa Gray bird strain (in particular, the flora of the Voltziensandsteins edited) to Friedrich von Alberti Award , for his contribution to the study of the rich and excellently preserved Triassic time faunas in Grès à Voltzia and the reconstruction of Genesis and The living world of the Upper Buntsandstein in the Vosges, the paleoecology of prehistoric biotopes and the founding of the European Palaeontological Association . He has also received prizes from the Académie des Sciences and the French Geological Society. Since 2000 he has been a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society . He is an honorary doctorate from the University of Cluj-Napoca . In 1991 he became President of the European Palaeontological Association.

Fonts

  • Sedimentation spaces and areas of life in the history of the earth. An introduction to palaeoecology , Springer Verlag 1982, English edition: Ancient sedimentary environments and the habitats of living organisms: introduction to palaeoecology , Springer Verlag 1983 (first French 1976, also translated into Chinese)
  • Des premières bactéries à l'homme: l'histoire de nos origines , Paris, Harmattan 2009
  • with Léa Grauvogel tribe The King's Pit near Soultz-les-Bains , in Werner K. Weidert Classical sites of paleontology , Goldschneck Verlag, Volume 3, 1995 (with biography)
  • The Vosges sandstone. Reconstruction of the living environment and the landscape pictures at the beginning of the Middle Ages of geological history . Alemannisches Jahrbuch 1987/88, pp. 67-76
  • Faunes et paysages du Grès à Voltzia du Nord des Vosges. Essai paleoécologique sur le red sandstone superior. Mémoires du Service de la Carte géologique d'Alsace et de Lorraine, Volume 34, 1971, pp. 1-318
  • Les voiles microbiens. Leur contribution à la fossilisation du organismes au corps mou , Lethaia, Volume 23, 1990, pp. 21-28
  • Fossil deposits from the red sandstone of the Vosges (France) and their ecological interpretation , New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, Volume 5, 1972, pp. 285-293
  • Publisher: Triassic insects of western europe , Museo Civico di storia naturale di Milano, 1996
  • with Paul Bernier: Die Plattenkalke von Cerin (France), in Werner K. Weidert, Classical Findings of Paleontology, Volume 4, Goldschneck Verlag 2001

Individual references and notes

  1. ↑ In particular the King's Pit at Soultz-les-Bains
  2. ^ Laudation, Friedrich von Alberti Prize
personal data
SURNAME Gall, Jean-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1936