Auguste Bravard

Auguste Bravard
portrait of Auguste Bravard
Born(1803-06-18)18 June 1803
Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme
Died28 March 1861(1861-03-28) (aged 57)
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
Notes

(Pierre Joseph) Auguste Bravard (18 June 1803 – 28 March 1861)[1][2] was a French mining engineer turned palaeontologist. He hunted fossils in the Vaucluse, Allier and his native Puy de Dôme.[3]

  1. ^ a b Biographical dates from K. Lambrecht, Werner Quenstedt, Claude C. Albritton, Jr, Palaeontologi: catalogus bio-bibliographicus (1938), reprinted 1978, s.v. "Auguste Bravard".
  2. ^ a b Juan José Parodiz (1981). Darwin in the New World. p. 117.
  3. ^ Lambrecht, Quenstedt 1938; Bravard, Monographie de la montagne de Perrier près d'Issoire (Puy-de-Dôme), et de deux espèces fossiles du genre Felis découvertes dans l'une de ses couches d'alluvion, Paris 1828.


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