Éric Buffetaut
French paleontologist
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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.
Éric Buffetaut | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 November 1950 |
| Alma mater | Université de Paris |
| Known for | Archosaur research |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology |
| Institutions | Centre national de la recherche scientifique |
Notable works
Below is a list of taxa that Buffetaut has contributed to naming:
- Archaeodontosaurus descouensi (genus and species)
- Caletodraco cottardi (genus and species)
- Castignovolucris sebei (genus and species)
- Chalawan thailandicus (genus and species)
- Dolichochampsa minima (genus and species)
- Eogavialis africanum (genus)
- Euthecodon arambourgi (species)
- Hatzegopteryx thambema (genus and species)
- Isanosaurus attavipachi (genus and species)
- Isalorhynchus genovefae (genus and species)
- Kinnareemimus khonkaenensis (genus and species)
- Liubangosaurus hei (genus and species)
- Normanniasaurus genceyi (genus and species)
- Normannognathus wellnhoferi (genus and species)
- Ostafrikasaurus crassiserratus (genus and species)
- Phuwiangosaurus sirindhornae (genus and species)
- Psittacosaurus sattayaraki (species)
- Rhabdodon septimanicus (species, now in the genus Obelignathus)
- Siamamia naga (genus and species)
- Siamodon nimngami (genus and species)
- Siamosaurus suteethorni (genus and species)
- Siamotyrannus isanensis (genus and species)
- Tarascosaurus salluvicus (genus and species)
- Tilemsisuchus lavocati (genus and species)
- Trematochampsa taqueti (genus and species)
- Variraptor mechinorum (genus and species)
Buffetaut demonstrated in 1982 that Dakosaurus and Aggiosaurus are actually members of the Metriorhynchidae.[1]
In 1997, the crocodylomorph Musturzabalsuchus buffetauti was named in his honor.[2] In 2025, the ctenochasmatid pterosaur Garudapterus buffetauti was named in his honor.[3]
Buffeataut works mainly with Mesozoic reptiles including crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs and dinosaurs.[4]
Selected publications
- Les Dinosaures. Que sais-je ? n°2827, PUF, 1994 ISBN 2130460038
- Les Dinosaures de France, avec Pascal Robin, BRGM Éditions 1995 ISBN 2715907664
- Histoire de la paléontologie. Que sais-je ? n°2190, PUF, avril 1997 ISBN 213048557X
- Les Mondes disparus, atlas de la dérive des continents, avec Jean Le Loeuff, Guy Le Roux, Berg International, 1998 ISBN 2911289145
- Dans les traces des dinosaures, Les Éditions Pocket ISBN 2266045709
- La Fin des dinosaures : comment les grandes extinctions ont façonné le monde vivant., Fayard, 2003 ISBN 221361489X
- Les Dinosaures. Collection "Idées reçues n°123. Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 2006 ISBN 2846701431
- Les dinosaures sont-ils un échec de l'évolution ?. Éditions du Pommier, 2008 ISBN 9782746503854
- Que nous racontent les fossiles ?, éditions du Pommier, 2009 ISBN 9782746504097
- Sommes-nous tous voués à disparaître ? idées reçues sur l'extinction des espèces, Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 2012, ISBN 9782846704342
- À la recherche des animaux mystérieux : idées reçues sur la cryptozoologie, Le Cavalier Bleu éditions, 2016, ISBN 9791031800998
