Auguste Aymard (5 December 1808 – 26 June 1889) was a French

prehistorian Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

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palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

who lived and died in

Puy-en-Velay Le Puy-en-Velay (, literally ''Le Puy in Velay''; oc, Lo Puèi de Velai ) is the prefecture of the Haute-Loire department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-central France. Located near the river Loire, the city is famous for its ...

(Haute-Loire). He described the fossil '' Entelodon magnus'' and the fossil genera ''

Anancus ''Anancus'' is an extinct genus of elephantoid proboscideans ("gomphothere" ''sensu lato'') native to Afro-Eurasia, that lived from the Tortonian stage of the late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the early Pleistocene, roughly from 8.5 ...

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Amphechinus ''Amphechinus'' is an extinct genus of hedgehog of the family Erinaceidae, which lived in Asia and Europe during the Oligocene and in North America, Africa, Asia and Europe during the Miocene. Taxonomy ''Amphechinus'' was named by Auguste Ayma ...

''. Auguste Aymard was the archivist for the Departement Haute-Loire and Conservateur of Musée du Puy-en-Velay. He made archaeological discoveries in Puy-en-Velay, Polignac, Haute-Loire and

Espaly-Saint-Marcel Espaly-Saint-Marcel () is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France. Population See also * Communes of the Haute-Loire department The following is a list of the 257 communes of the Haute-Loire department of France. ...

Works

* Aymard, A., 1848, Essai monographique sur un nouveau genre de Mammifère fossile trouvé dans la Haute-Loire, et nommé Entélodon, ''Annales de la Société d’Agriculture Sciences, Arts et Commerce du Puy'', Vol.12, 1848, pp. 227–268 * Aymard, A. 1854, Acquisitions d’ossements fossiles trouvés à Sainzelle, commune de Polignac; aperçu descriptif sur ce curieux gisement et détermination des espèces fossiles qu’il renferme, ''Annales de la Société d’Agriculture Sciences, Arts et Commerce du Puy'', Vol. 18, 1854, pp. 51–54 * Aymard, A. 1854, Des terrains fossilifères du bassin supérieur de la Loire, ''Comptes Rendus des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences'', Paris, Vol. 38, 1854, pp. 673–677

References

*Auguste Aymard (1808-1889), pionnier de la science moderne, exposition aux Archives départementales, 26 mars - 26 avril 1990 / Centre Culturel Départemental, Conseil Général de la Haute-Loire. French paleontologists French archaeologists 1889 deaths 1808 births People from Le Puy-en-Velay {{France-scientist-stub