Philippe Janvier is a French
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 ...
, specialising in
Palaeozoic
The Paleozoic ( , , ; or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning 538.8 million years ago (Ma), it succeeds the Neoproterozoic (the last era of the Proterozoic Eon) and ends 251.9 Ma at the start of ...
vertebrates
Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain.
The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebra ...
, who currently works at the
Museum National de l’Histoire Naturelle in
Paris
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. He has written several books and scientific papers on
Palaeozoic
The Paleozoic ( , , ; or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning 538.8 million years ago (Ma), it succeeds the Neoproterozoic (the last era of the Proterozoic Eon) and ends 251.9 Ma at the start of ...
vertebrates
Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain.
The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebra ...
and contributed to the
Tree of Life phylogeny project. He has led the largest paleontology research group in France (currently called th
CR2P, located in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
. Janvier received the award of the ''
Grand prix scientifique de la Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca (Institut de France)'' on June 11, 2008, for his work.
He was a founding member of the
Société Française de Systématique. He is currently Associate Editor of the Comptes Rendus Palevol (one of the series of the
Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences
(, ''Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences''), or simply ''Comptes rendus'', is a French scientific journal published since 1835. It is the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences. It is currently split into seven sections, published o ...
) for paleoichthyology. He was elected member of the Académie des Sciences on 18 November 2014.
Bibliography
* Janvier, Philippe. (1993). Patterns of diversity in the skull of jawless fishes. In ''The Skull'' (ed. J. Hanken and B. K. Hall), Vol. 2, pp. 131–188. The University of Chicago Press.
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* Janvier, Philippe. 1996, 2003.
Early Vertebrates (1996)Early Vertebrates (2003)
'. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics, v. 33, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, pp. - a comprehensive review of the phylogeny and technical characteristics of Paleozoic fish
* Forey, P. L., and Janvier, P. (1993). Agnathans and the origin of jawed vertebrates. ''Nature'', 361, 129–134.
* Forey, P. L., and Janvier, P. (1994). Evolution of the early vertebrates. American Scientist, 82, 554–565.
References
Philippe Janier
t Palaeos.org
External links
* Philippe Janvier a
French paleontologists
Living people
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National Museum of Natural History (France) people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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