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MNHN AC 9648 helped shape George Cuvier's concept of extinction. After the publication of Camper's 1786 study, the second skull attracted the attention of more scientists and was referred to as "the great fossil animal of the quarries of Maastricht", [ 4 ] or more simply as the "great animal of Maastricht". [ 2 ]
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier was born in Montbéliard, where his Protestant ancestors had lived since the time of the Reformation. [11] His mother was Anne Clémence Chatel; his father, Jean-Georges Cuvier, was a lieutenant in the Swiss Guards and a bourgeois of the town of Montbéliard. [12]
The crocodile flathead was first formally described as Platycephalus crocodilus in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier, [3] the species was not described from a type specimen, it was based on an illustration and so is an iconotype. [4]
Crocodylidae was named as a family by Georges Cuvier in 1807. It belongs to the larger superfamily Crocodyloidea, which also includes additional extinct crocodile relatives. These all belong to the order Crocodilia, which also includes alligators and gharials.
After it had been earlier interpreted as a fish, a crocodile, and a sperm whale, the first to understand its lizard affinities was the Dutch scientist Adriaan Gilles Camper in 1799. In 1808, Georges Cuvier confirmed this conclusion, although le Grand Animal fossile de Maëstricht was not actually named Mosasaurus (' Meuse reptile') until 1822 ...
Camper postulated that the animal was a whale, or in any case a sea creature, rather than a land creature. Faujas de Saint-Fond insisted it was a crocodile, while Camper's son Adriaan claimed it was a monitor lizard and Georges Cuvier felt that it may be something as yet unknown, (the concept of extinction was new).
Cuvier's dwarf caiman was first described by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1807 and is one of only two species in the genus Paleosuchus, the other species being P. trigonatus. Their closest relatives are the other caimans in the subfamily Caimaninae.
Histoire naturelle des poissons is a 22-volume treatment of ichthyology published in 1828–1849 by the French savant Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and his student and successor Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). It was a systematic compendium of the fishes of the world known at that time, and treated altogether 4 514 species of fishes, of ...