Henri Émile Sauvage

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]

The plesiosaurid species Lusonectes sauvagei commemorates his name,[5] as do the crustacean species Pseudanthessius sauvagei [6] and the gecko species Bavayia sauvagii.[7]

Works

References

  1. Wikispecies
  2. 1 2 Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective edited by Richard Moody
  3. The Complete Dinosaur edited by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow
  4. 1 2 Data.BnF.fr Henri-Émile Sauvage (1842-1917)
  5. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica A New Plesiosauroid from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alhadas, Portugal
  6. BEMON Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. S
  7. 1 2 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).
  8. HathiTrust Digital Library Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Epinac.
  9. WorldCat Title Histoire naturelle des poissons
  10. Open Library published works
  11. English Wikisource Articles in Popular Science Monthly
  12. WorldCat Title La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Sauvage

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