TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuvier,Georges
TI  - Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles des quadrupèdes
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Earth science
SN  - 9781316225769 (ebook)
AV  - QE841 .C88 2015
U1  - 566 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Vertebrates, Fossil
N1  - Originally published in Paris by Deterville in 1812
N2  - Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), one of the founding figures of vertebrate palaeontology, pursued a successful scientific career despite the political upheavals in France during his lifetime. In the 1790s, Cuvier's work on fossils of large mammals including mammoths enabled him to show that extinction was a scientific fact. In 1812 Cuvier published this four-volume illustrated collection of his papers on palaeontology, osteology (notably dentition) and stratigraphy. It was followed in 1817 by his famous Le règne animal, available in the Cambridge Library Collection both in French and in Edward Griffith's expanded English translation (1827-35). Volume 3 of Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles recounts Cuvier's excitement at acquiring fossils from gypsum quarries near Paris, and the challenges of piecing the fragments together correctly. Cuvier describes the methodical reconstruction of the pachyderm fossils and lists other fossils occurring in the same rock formations: carnivores, an opossum, birds, reptiles, and fish
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316225769
ER  -