Eugène Dumortier (1802, in

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– 12 August 1876,

) was a French

paleontologist 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 ...

He worked as a manufacturer of gilding and at around the age of 50 his focus turned to

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. He is remembered for a four volume paleontological work on the

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region that was published from 1864 to 1874.Jean-Baptiste-Eugène Dumortier
at Sociétés savantes de France The mineral

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is named after him. In 1860 he became a member of the

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. Also, he was a founding member of the Association lyonnaise des amis des sciences naturelles (1872) and the Société de géographie de Lyon (1873). His large collection of fossils was bequeathed to the natural history museum in Lyon.

Published works

* ''Note sur quelques fossiles peu connus ou mal figurés de Lias moyen'', 1857. * ''Études paléontologiques sur les dépôts jurassiques du bassin du Rhône'', T. 1, 1864 ; T.2, 1867 ; T.3, 1869 ; T.4, 1874. * ''Sur quelques gisements de l'Oxfordien inférieur de l'Ardèche'', 1871. * ''Note sur les terrains subordonnés aux gisements de poissons et de végétaux fossiles du Bas-Bugey'', 1873 (with Albert Falsan). * ''Description des ammonites de la zone à Ammonites tenuilobatus de Crussol (Ardèche) et quelques autres fossiles jurassiques nouveaux ou peu connus'', 1876 (with Charles-François Fontannes).IDREF.fr
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dumortier, Eugene 1802 births 1876 deaths French paleontologists Scientists from Lyon