Charles Depéret
Charles Jean Julien Depéret (25 June 1854 – 18 May 1929)[1] was a French geologist and paleontologist. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences,[1] the Société géologique de France[2] and dean of the Science faculty of Lyon.[3]
Charles Depéret | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 June 1854 |
| Died | 18 May 1929 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | French |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geology Paleontology |
| Institutions | Aix-Marseille University University of Lyon |
Charles Depéret was born in Perpignan. He started his career as a military doctor from 1877 to 1888. Initially posted in Algeria, he was later active in Sathonay.[3] In 1888, he became lecturer at Aix-Marseille University,[3] and in 1889 he became professor of geology at the University of Lyon.[2] He died in Lyon.[4]
In 1892 he introduced the Burdigalian Stage (Lower Miocene) based on stratigraphic units found near Bordeaux and in the Rhône Valley.[5] He was an advocate of the controversial prehistoric artifacts findings of Glozel.[6] Along with Edward Drinker Cope, his name is associated with the so-called "Cope-Depéret rule", a law which asserts that in population lineages, body size tends to increase over evolutionary time.[7]
Taxa described by Depéret
- Amphirhagatherium (1908).[8]
- Carcharodontosaurus saharicus (with Justin Savornin, 1925).[9]
- Gazella borbonica (1884).[10]
- Megalosaurus crenatissimus, now referred to as Majungasaurus crenatissimus, (1896).[11]
- Protragocerus, (1887).[12]
- Pseudosinopa, synonym Cynohyaenodon, (1917).[13]
Selected works
In 1909 his book Les transformations du monde animal (1907) was translated into English and published with the title "The transformations of the animal world".[14] The following list contains a few of his other noted writings:
- Description géologique du bassin tertiaire du Roussillon, 1885 – Description of the tertiary geological basin in Roussillon.
- Les animaux pliocènes du Roussillon, 1890 – Pliocene animals of Roussillon.
- La faune de mammifères miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère) et de quelques autres localités du bassin du Rhone : documents nouveaux et revision générale, 1892 – On Miocene vertebrates of Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère) and some other localities of the Rhône basin.
- Note sur les dinosauriens sauropodes & théropodes du Crétacé supérieur de Madagascar, 1896 – Note on the sauropod and theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar.
- Monographie des pectinidés néogènes de l'Europe et des régions voisines, 1902 – Monograph on Neogene pectinids of Europe and neighboring regions.
- Monographie de la faune de mammifères fossiles du Ludien inférieur d'Euzet-les-Bains (Gard), 1917 – Monograph on fossil mammal fauna of the lower Ludian at Euzet-les-Bains, (Gard).[15]
See also
References
- Past members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Obituary at Annales des Mines (in French)
- Obituary at Les Études rhodaniennes, Year 1929, Vol. 5, Issue 5-2, pp. 342-343 (in French)
- "Deperet, Charles." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2010 from Encyclopedia.com
- A Geologic Time Scale 2004 by Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Alan G. Smith
- Webpage about Charles Depéret at Glozel Museum website
- Laurin, M (2010). "Assessment of the relative merits of a few methods to detect evolutionary trends". Syst Biol. 59 (6): 689–704. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syq059. PMID 20937759.
- Amphirhagatherium Depéret, 1908 Archived 2018-01-17 at the Wayback Machine GBIF
- Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret and Savornin 1925 Paleobiology Database
- Petronio, Carmelo; Bellucci, Luca; Martiinetto, Edoardo; Pandolfi, Luca; Salari, Leonardo (2011). "Biochronology and palaeoenvironmental changes from the Middle Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene in Central Italy" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 33 (3): 485–517. doi:10.5252/g2011n3a4. hdl:2318/128607. S2CID 131503285.
- Majungasaurus crenatissimus Depéret 1896 Paleobiology Database
- Protragocerus Deperet 1887 Paleobiology Database
- Cynohyaenodon Filhol 1873 Paleobiology Database
- HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
- IDREF.fr lengthy bibliography