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Éric Buffetaut
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Éric Buffetaut (born 19 November 1950) is a French paleontologist, author and researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1976 where he is a Doctor of Science and Director of Research. Buffetaut is a specialist of fossil archosaurs, mainly dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and has published many books on paleontology. He is one of the major paleontologists to support the thesis of the fall of a meteorite as the main cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Buffetaut named and described the following species:
Archaeodontosaurus descouensi
Castignovolucris sebei
Euthecodon arambourgi
Isanosaurus attavipachi
Isalorhynchus genovefae
Kinnareemimus khonkaenensis
Normannognathus wellnhoferi
Phuwiangosaurus sirindhornae
Psittacosaurus sattayaraki
Rhabdodon septimanicus
Siamamia naga
Siamosaurus suteethorni
Siamotyrannus isanensis
Tarascosaurus salluvicus
Tilemsisuchus lavocati
Trematochampsa taqueti
Variraptor mechinorum
Buffetaut demonstrated in 1982 that Dakosaurus and Aggiosaurus are actually members of the Metriorhynchidae.
Musturzabalsuchus buffetauti was named in his honor.
Buffeataut worked mainly with Mesozoic reptiles including crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs and dinosaurs.
Les Dinosaures. Que sais-je ? n°2827, PUF, 1994
Les Dinosaures de France, avec Pascal Robin, BRGM Éditions 1995
Histoire de la paléontologie. Que sais-je ? n°2190, PUF, avril 1997
Les Mondes disparus, atlas de la dérive des continents, avec Jean Le Loeuff, Guy Le Roux, Berg International, 1998
Dans les traces des dinosaures, Les Éditions Pocket
La Fin des dinosaures : comment les grandes extinctions ont façonné le monde vivant., Fayard, 2003
Les Dinosaures. Collection "Idées reçues n°123. Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 2006
Les dinosaures sont-ils un échec de l'évolution ?. Éditions du Pommier, 2008
Que nous racontent les fossiles ?, éditions du Pommier, 2009
Sommes-nous tous voués à disparaître ? idées reçues sur l'extinction des espèces, Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 2012,
À la recherche des animaux mystérieux : idées reçue
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