Éric Buffetaut

Éric Buffetaut
Born (1950-11-19) 19 November 1950 (age 75)
Porte-Joie, Normandy, France
EducationUniversité de Paris
Known forArchosaur research
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
WorkplacesCentre national de la recherche scientifique

Éric Buffetaut (born 19 November 1950) is a French paleontologist, author and researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1976 where he is a Doctor of Science and Director of Research. Buffetaut is a specialist of fossil archosaurs, mainly dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and has published many books on paleontology. He is one of the major paleontologists to support the thesis of the fall of a meteorite as the main cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Notable works

Below is a list of taxa that Buffetaut has contributed to naming:

Buffetaut demonstrated in 1982 that Dakosaurus and Aggiosaurus are actually members of the Metriorhynchidae.

In 1997, the crocodylomorph Musturzabalsuchus buffetauti was named in his honor. In 2025, the ctenochasmatid pterosaur Garudapterus buffetauti was named in his honor.

Buffeataut works mainly with Mesozoic reptiles including crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs and dinosaurs.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Buffetaut E. 1982. Aggiosaurus nicaeensis Ambayrac, 1913, from the Upper Jurassic of south-eastern France: A marine crocodilian, not a dinosaur. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte (8): 469-475.
  2. ↑ Buscalioni, A. D.; Ortega, F.; Vasse, D. (1997). "New crocodiles (Eusuchia: Alligatoroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Europe". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série II. 325 (7): 525–530. Bibcode:1997CRASE.325..525B. doi:10.1016/s1251-8050(97)89872-2.
  3. ↑ Manitkoon, Sita; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Nonsrirach, Thanit; Warapeang, Prapasiri; Lauprasert, Komsorn; Deesri, Uthumporn; Tumpeesuwan, Sakboworn; Wongko, Kamonlak; Zhou, Xuanyu (2025-03-28). "First gnathosaurine (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Thailand". Cretaceous Research 106135. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106135. ISSN 0195-6671.
  4. ↑ Hendrickx, Christophe; Mateus, Octávio; Buffetaut, Eric (2016-01-06). "Morphofunctional Analysis of the Quadrate of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Presence of Spinosaurus and a Second Spinosaurine Taxon in the Cenomanian of North Africa". PLOS ONE. 11 (1) e0144695. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1144695H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144695. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4703214. PMID 26734729.