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{{short description|French paleontologist (1940–2025)}} |
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[[File:Philippe Taquet – Espace des sciences – 16-01-2013.jpg|thumb|Philippe Taquet in 2013]] |
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”’Philippe Taquet”’ (25 April 1940 |
”’Philippe Taquet”’ (25 April 1940 – 16 November 2025) was a French [[paleontologist]] who specialized in [[dinosaur]] [[systematics]] of finds primarily in northern [[Africa]].<ref name=FASweb>{{cite web|title=Institut de France Académie des sciences membres Phillipe Taquet bio|url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/T/Taquet_Philippe_bio.htm|access-date=1 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051015055416/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/T/Taquet_Philippe_bio.htm|archive-date=2005-10-15}}</ref> |
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He was a member of the [[French Academy of Sciences]] beginning on 30 November 2004,<ref name=FASweb /> and president from 2012. He studied and described a number of new [[dinosaur]] species from Africa, especially from the [[Aptian]] site of Gadoufaoua in [[Niger]] (such as ”[[Ouranosaurus]]”).<ref name=Taquet1999>{{cite book|author= Philippe Taquet|title = Dinosaur Impressions: Postcards from a Paleontologist |date = 28 August 1999 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | isbn = 978-0-521-77930-2}}</ref> He also researched the [[Early Cretaceous|Lower Cretaceous]] [[stratigraphy|stratigraphic]] relationship between western Africa and [[Brazil]] by reconstructing the [[paleobiology]] from fossil floras and faunas.<ref name=FASweb/> He was president of the French [[Muséum national d’histoire naturelle|National Museum of Natural History]] from 1985 to 1990.<ref name=FASweb/> |
He was a member of the [[French Academy of Sciences]] beginning on 30 November 2004,<ref name=FASweb /> and president from 2012. He studied and described a number of new [[dinosaur]] species from Africa, especially from the [[Aptian]] site of Gadoufaoua in [[Niger]] (such as ”[[Ouranosaurus]]”).<ref name=Taquet1999>{{cite book|author= Philippe Taquet|title = Dinosaur Impressions: Postcards from a Paleontologist |date = 28 August 1999 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | isbn = 978-0-521-77930-2}}</ref> He also researched the [[Early Cretaceous|Lower Cretaceous]] [[stratigraphy|stratigraphic]] relationship between western Africa and [[Brazil]] by reconstructing the [[paleobiology]] from fossil floras and faunas.<ref name=FASweb/> He was president of the French [[Muséum national d’histoire naturelle|National Museum of Natural History]] from 1985 to 1990.<ref name=FASweb/> |
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Latest revision as of 08:29, 18 November 2025
French paleontologist (1940–2025)
Philippe Taquet (25 April 1940 – 16 November 2025) was a French paleontologist who specialized in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa.[1]
He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences beginning on 30 November 2004,[1] and president from 2012. He studied and described a number of new dinosaur species from Africa, especially from the Aptian site of Gadoufaoua in Niger (such as Ouranosaurus).[2] He also researched the Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic relationship between western Africa and Brazil by reconstructing the paleobiology from fossil floras and faunas.[1] He was president of the French National Museum of Natural History from 1985 to 1990.[1]
He received the Sue Tyler Friedman Medal in 2009 for work in the history of geology.[3]
Taquet died on 16 November 2025, at the age of 85.[4]
