Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol (24 July 1828,

Geneva Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the ca ...

– 23 December 1908,

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) was a Swiss

paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

and stratigraphist. He studied

natural sciences Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...

and paleontology in Geneva as a pupil of François-Jules Pictet. For a period of time, he worked as an estate manager in Geneva and

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, then for nearly forty years was associated with the

Natural History Museum of Geneva The Natural History Museum of Geneva (in French: ') is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland. Louis Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are held by the museum. Other displays include a coll ...

. He was one of the founders of the ''Schweizerische Paläontologische Gesellschaft'' and editor of the ''Mémoires de la Société suisse paléontologique''. In 1902 he received an honorary doctorate from the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public university, public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by French theologian John Calvin as a Theology, theological seminary. It rema ...

Loriol, Perceval de
Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz He is remembered for his investigations of fossil

echinoderms An echinoderm () is any animal of the phylum Echinodermata (), which includes starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers, as well as the sessile sea lilies or "stone lilies". While bilaterally symmetrical as larv ...

found in Europe and North Africa from the

Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 143.1 Mya. ...

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...

and

Upper Tertiary The Neogene ( ,) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago ( Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period million years ago. It is the second period of the ...

Eras. He was the author of numerous taxa, an example being the

crinoid Crinoids are marine invertebrates that make up the class Crinoidea. Crinoids that remain attached to the sea floor by a stalk in their adult form are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms, called feather stars or comatulids, are ...

family Bourgueticrinidae (1882).

Selected works

* ''Description des animaux invertébrés : fossiles contenus dans l'étage néocomien moyen du Mont Salève'', 1861 – Description of invertebrates; fossils of the Middle Neocomian stage found at Mount Salève. * ''Etude géologique et paléontologique de la formation d'eau douce infracrétacée du Jura et en particulier de Villers-le-lac'', 1865, (with Auguste Jaccard) – Geological and paleontological study on the formation of infra-Cretaceous freshwater in the

Jura Mountains The Jura Mountains ( ) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border. While the Jura range proper (" folded Jura", ) is located in France and Switzerla ...

and in particular, Villers-le-Lac. * ''Description géologique et paléontologique des étages jurassiques supérieurs de la Haute Marne'', 1872 – Geological and paleontological descriptions of the

Upper Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 143.1 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987. In European lithostratigraphy, the name ...

stage in Haute Marne. * ''Description des échinodermes tertiaires du Portugal; accompagnée d'un tableau stratigraphique'', 1877 – Description of Tertiary echinoderms of

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

, with a stratigraphic table. * ''Monographie des crinoides fossiles de la Suisse'', 1877 – Monograph on

fossils of Switzerland. * ''Description de quatre échinodermes nouveaux'', 1880 – Description of four new echinoderms. * ''Notes pour servir à l'étude des échinodermes; seconde série'', 1884 – Notes for use in the study of echinoderms. * ''Description de la faune jurassique du Portugal; embranchement des échinodermes'', 1890 – Description of Jurassic fauna of Portugal; embranchement of echinoderms.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Perceval de Loriol

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Loriol, Perceval de 1828 births 1908 deaths University of Geneva alumni Scientists from Geneva 19th-century Swiss geologists Swiss paleontologists