Ferdinand Canu (1863–1932) 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 ...

and author. In 1923 he was awarded

Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S. United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences "for meritorious work in zoology or paleontology study published in a three- to five-year period." Named after Daniel Gir ...

for his work ''North American Later Tertiary and Quaternary Bryozoa''.

Works

*1917 – ''A synopsis of American Early Tertiary Cheilostome Bryozoa'' *1918 – ''Bryozoa of the Canal Zone and Related Areas'' *1919 – ''Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies'' * *1921 – ''Bryozoa of the Philippine Region'' *1923 – ''North American Later Tertiary and Quaternary Bryozoa'' *1931 – ''Bryozoaires oligocènes de la Belgique conservés au Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique'' *1933 – ''The Bryozoan Fauna of the Vincentown Limesand''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Canu, Ferdinand 1863 births 1932 deaths French paleontologists