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Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (/ ˈ k j uː v i eɪ /; [1] French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) kyvje]), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". [2]
The Cuvier–Geoffroy debate of 1830 was a scientific debate between the two French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. [1] [2] [3] For around two months the debate occurred in front of the French Academy of Sciences. The debate centered primarily on animal structure; Cuvier asserted that animal structure was ...
Cyligramma limacina, an illustration from Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville's Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée (1st edition, 4 volumes, 1816) [a] (Volumes I, II and IV by Cuvier; Volume III by Pierre André Latreille)
Crocodilus biporcatus proposed by Georges Cuvier in 1807 were 23 saltwater crocodile specimens from India, Java and Timor. [14] Crocodilus biporcatus raninus proposed by Salomon Müller and Hermann Schlegel in 1844 was a crocodile from Borneo. [15] Crocodylus porosus australis proposed by Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala in 1953 was a specimen ...
Initially considered as fossils coming from crocodiles or whales, it was from 1800 that Adriaan Gilles Camper identified them as coming from a large marine reptile sharing affinities with monitor lizards, conclusions shared by Georges Cuvier in a 1808 study.
A crocodile was blamed for biting a man on a shoulder after jumping into a Coral Gable canal in 2014 - an incident reported then as the first confirmed crocodile attack on a human in Florida.
A crocodile is photographed at the largest crocodile farm in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on March 31, 2024. / Credit: Kartik Byma/NurPhoto via Getty Images Indonesia has also seen several ...
Cuvier, basing the name on its apparent lack of suitable arms and canines for offensive attacks, erected the name Anoplotherium. [1] [2] The genus name Anoplotherium means "unarmed beast" and is a compound of the Greek words αν-(an, 'not'), ὅπλον (hóplon, 'armor, large shield'), and θήρ (thēr, 'beast, wild animal'). [3]