Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in

Boulogne-sur-Mer Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...

– 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) 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 ...

, ichthyologist, and

herpetologist Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians ( gymnophiona)) and rep ...

. He was a leading expert on

Mesozoic The Mesozoic Era ( ), also called the Age of Reptiles, the Age of Conifers, and colloquially as the Age of the Dinosaurs is the second-to-last era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about , comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceo ...

fish and reptiles.Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective
edited by Richard Moody He worked as a curator at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in

, and published extensively on

Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987. In European lithostratigraphy, the name ...

dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the Boulonnais region of northern France. He made important contributions involving vertebrate palaeontology in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

, describing in 1897, '' Suchosaurus girardi'' from jaw fragments found in that country. From 1883 to 1896, he served as director of the ''station aquicole'' in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He was a member of the

Société géologique de France Lactalis is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier SA. Lactalis is the largest dairy products group in the world, and is the sec ...

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Henri-Émile Sauvage (1842-1917) In 1893 Philippe Thomas published the palaeontological results of the Tunisian Scientific Exploration Mission (1885–1886) in six installments plus an atlas, including the work of

Victor-Auguste Gauthier Victor-Auguste Gauthier (5 March 1837 – 20 February 1911) was a French school teacher and amateur palaeontologist. He specialized in the study of fossilized sea urchins, contributing meticulous descriptions of many fossils found in southern Fran ...

( sea urchins), Arnould Locard (

Mollusca Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

), Auguste Péron (

Brachiopod Brachiopods (), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, w ...

Bryozoa Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a ...

and

Pentacrinites ''Pentacrinites'' is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Hettangian to the Bathonian of Asia, Europe, North America, and New Zealand. Their stems are pentagonal to star-shaped in cross-section and are the most commonly preserved par ...

s) and Henri Émile Sauvage (

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

). The plesiosaurid species '' Lusonectes sauvagei'' commemorates his name, as do the

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

species ''Pseudanthessius sauvagei'' and the

gecko Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from . Geckos ar ...

species ''

Bavayia sauvagii ''Bavayia sauvagii'', also known commonly as Sauvage's bavayia and Sauvage's New Caledonian gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to New Caledonia. Etymology The specific name, ''sauvagii'', is i ...

''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Sauvage", p. 233).

Works

* ''Note sur les geckotiens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie'', 1878. * ''Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Épinac'', 1889–97 (with

Frédéric Delafond Frédéric Delafond (2 February 1844 in Igé, Saône-et-Loire – November 1933 in Paris) was a French geologist and mining engineer. He received his education at the École Polytechnique and at the École des Mines in Paris. From 1909 to 1914 he ...

Michel Lévy Michel Lévy (1821–1875) was the founder of the Michel Lévy Frères publishing house. Biography Born in Phalsbourg, he was the son of a '' colporteur'' (a peddler of printed publications). In 1836, aged fifteen, he opened a reading cab ...

, Bernard Renault, René Zeiller, 7 volumes). * ''Histoire naturelle des poissons'', (1891); in Alfred Grandidier's ''Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar''. * ''Vertébrés fossiles du Portugal: Contributions à l'étude des poissons et des reptiles du jurassique et du crétacique'', (1897). * ''Musées municipaux de Boulogne-sur-Mer'', 1898. * "Amphibious Fishes" in ''Popular Science Monthly'' Volume 9, September 1876 * "The Archer-Fishes" in ''Popular Science Monthly'' Volume 12, January 1878 * "The Matamata" in ''Popular Science Monthly'' Volume 16, March 1880. * Biography: ''La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Sauvage''; Author: Casimir Cépède. Publisher: Boulogne-sur-Mer :Imprimerie G. Hamain, 1923.WorldCat Title
La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Sauvage

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