Philippe Janvier is 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 ...
, specialising in
Palaeozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838
by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and '' ...
vertebrates
Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () ( chordates with backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, ...
, who currently works at the
Museum National de l’Histoire Naturelle in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. He has written several books and scientific papers on
Palaeozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838
by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and '' ...
vertebrates
Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () ( chordates with backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, ...
and contributed to the
Tree of Life phylogeny project. He has led the largest paleontology research group in France (currently called th
CR2P, located in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. Janvier received the award of the ''
'' on June 11, 2008, for his work.
He was a founding member of the
Société Française de Systématique. He is currently Associate Editor of the Comptes Rendus Palevol (one of the series of the
Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences) for paleoichthyology.
Bibliography
* Janvier, Philippe. (1993). Patterns of diversity in the skull of jawless fishes. In ''The Skull'' (ed. J. Hanken and B. K. Hall), Vol. 2, pp. 131–188. The University of Chicago Press.
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* Janvier, Philippe. 1996, 2003.
Early Vertebrates (1996)Early Vertebrates (2003)
'. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics, v. 33, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, pp. - a comprehensive review of the phylogyny and technical characteristics of Paleozoic fish
* Forey, P. L., and Janvier, P. (1993). Agnathans and the origin of jawed vertebrates. ''Nature'', 361, 129–134.
* Forey, P. L., and Janvier, P. (1994). Evolution of the early vertebrates. American Scientist, 82, 554–565.
References
Philippe Janier
t Palaeos.org
External links
* Philippe Janvier a
French paleontologists
Living people
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National Museum of Natural History (France) people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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