Gustave Cotteau
Gustave Honoré Cotteau (7 December 1818, Auxerre – 10 August 1894, Paris) was a French judge, naturalist and paleontologist.
Biography
[edit]He was educated in classical studies at the college in Auxerre, then studied law in Paris. He earned his law degree in 1840 and in 1846 was named a deputy judge in Auxerre.[1] Later on, he served as a judge in the civil court of Coulommiers and as a civil court judge in Auxerre. He was also curator of the city museum in Auxerre.[2]
He is best known for his study of living and fossil echinoids (sea urchins), of which, he amassed a collection of more than 500 different species.[2] He was the author of many works associated with Echinoidea, and circumscribed numerous echinoid taxa, such as the fossil genera Asterocidaris and Cidaropsis.[3] With Jules Triger, he circumscribed the fossil family Archiaciidae (1869).[4]
In 1874 and 1886 he was president of the Société géologique de France. He was also a member of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris and of the Société des sciences historiques et naturelles de l'Yonne.[2]
Selected works
[edit]He was an editor of Paléontologie française, a multi-volume series on French paleontology begun by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1840.[5] The following are some of his many written works:
- Cotteau, Gustave (1849), Etudes sur les Echinides fossiles du département de l'Yonne
- Cotteau, Gustave; Triger, Jules (1855–69), Échinides du département de la Sarthe considérés au point de vue zoologique et stratigraphique
- Cotteau, Gustave (1858), Echinides nouveaux ou peu connus
- Cotteau, Gustave (1863), Echinides fossiles des Pyrénées
- Cotteau, Gustave; Péron, Alphonse; Gauthier, Victor (1876–1884), Échinides fossiles de l'Algérie : description des espèces déjà recueillies dans ce pays et considérations sur leur position stratigraphique, Paris: G. Masson
- Cotteau, Gustave; Locard, Arnould (1877), Description de la faune des terrains tertiaires moyens de la Corse
- Cotteau, Gustave (1884), Die echiniden der Stramberger Schichten (in German)
- Cotteau, Gustave (1895), Description des échinides recueillis[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Gustave-Honoré Cotteau Société géologique de France
- ^ a b c Cotteau, Gustave Honoré at Sociétés savantes de France
- ^ Monograph on the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations by Thomas Wright
- ^ WoRMS taxon details Archiaciidae Cotteau & Triger, 1869
- ^ a b OCLC Classify published works
External links
[edit]- IDREF.fr lengthy bibliography of Cotteau
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