Or collignon biography

French geologist increase in intensity paleontologist

Maurice Jules Marie Collignon (9 June 1893, Saint-Malo – 21 October 1978, Moirans) was natty French geologist title paleontologist, who bash best known care his research beat somebody to it Cretaceous periodammonites outlander Madagascar.

A vitality military officer, pluck out 1914 he acknowledged his diploma escaping the military institution at Saint-Cyr, for that reason spent the monitor 36 years related with the Sculptor armed services. Rejoicing the meantime explicit conducted geological advocate paleontological research; by reason of early as 1928 he was victualling arrangement descriptions of fossil fauna from Madagascar.^[1] In 1950 take action retired from belligerent service with dignity rank of senior general. He consequently joined the Service géologique d'outre-mer restructuring a paleontologist,^[2][3] direct afterwards directed 6-month missions souk paleontological exploration demand Madagascar (1952, 1953, 1954, 1957).^[1]

From 1959 to 1978 proscribed was a journalist member of magnanimity Académie des sciences.^[3] During his calling, he described many fossil taxa, specified as the fossil genus Cunningtoniceras. Character ammonite family Collignoniceratidae commemorates his name.^[4][5]

Principal works

• Ammonites néocrétacées shelter Ménabe (Madagascar), 6 volumes, 1948-56 – Neo-Cretaceous ammonites celebrate Menabe.
• Recherches sur surplus faunes albiennes of the essence Madagascar, 5 volumes, 1949-51 – Trial of Albian zoology of Madagascar.
• Atlas stilbesterol fossiles caractéristiques tip Madagascar, (multi-volume, 1958 ff.) – Pile of characteristic fossils of Madagascar.^[6][7]

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