Charles Depéret

Charles Jean Julien Depéret (25 June 1854 – 18 May 1929)[1] was a French geologist and paleontologist. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences,[1] the Société géologique de France[2] and dean of the Science faculty of Lyon.[3]

Stèle on the La Doua campus in Villeurbanne in honor of Charles Depéret.
Charles Depéret
Born(1854-06-25)25 June 1854
Perpignan, France
Died18 May 1929(1929-05-18) (aged 74)
Lyon, France
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
Paleontology
InstitutionsAix-Marseille University
University of Lyon

Charles Depéret was born in Perpignan. He started his career as a military doctor from 1877 to 1888. Initially posted in Algeria, he was later active in Sathonay.[3] In 1888, he became lecturer at Aix-Marseille University,[3] and in 1889 he became professor of geology at the University of Lyon.[2] He died in Lyon.[4]

In 1892 he introduced the Burdigalian Stage (Lower Miocene) based on stratigraphic units found near Bordeaux and in the Rhône Valley.[5] He was an advocate of the controversial prehistoric artifacts findings of Glozel.[6] Along with Edward Drinker Cope, his name is associated with the so-called "Cope-Depéret rule", a law which asserts that in population lineages, body size tends to increase over evolutionary time.[7]

Taxa described by Depéret

Selected works

In 1909 his book Les transformations du monde animal (1907) was translated into English and published with the title "The transformations of the animal world".[14] The following list contains a few of his other noted writings:

  • Description géologique du bassin tertiaire du Roussillon, 1885 – Description of the tertiary geological basin in Roussillon.
  • Les animaux pliocènes du Roussillon, 1890 – Pliocene animals of Roussillon.
  • La faune de mammifères miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère) et de quelques autres localités du bassin du Rhone : documents nouveaux et revision générale, 1892 – On Miocene vertebrates of Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère) and some other localities of the Rhône basin.
  • Note sur les dinosauriens sauropodes & théropodes du Crétacé supérieur de Madagascar, 1896 – Note on the sauropod and theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar.
  • Monographie des pectinidés néogènes de l'Europe et des régions voisines, 1902 – Monograph on Neogene pectinids of Europe and neighboring regions.
  • Monographie de la faune de mammifères fossiles du Ludien inférieur d'Euzet-les-Bains (Gard), 1917 – Monograph on fossil mammal fauna of the lower Ludian at Euzet-les-Bains, (Gard).[15]

See also

References
  1. Past members of the French Academy of Sciences
  2. Obituary at Annales des Mines (in French)
  3. Obituary at Les Études rhodaniennes, Year 1929, Vol. 5, Issue 5-2, pp. 342-343 (in French)
  4. "Deperet, Charles." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2010 from Encyclopedia.com
  5. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 by Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Alan G. Smith
  6. Webpage about Charles Depéret at Glozel Museum website
  7. Laurin, M (2010). "Assessment of the relative merits of a few methods to detect evolutionary trends". Syst Biol. 59 (6): 689–704. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syq059. PMID 20937759.
  8. Amphirhagatherium Depéret, 1908 Archived 2018-01-17 at the Wayback Machine GBIF
  9. Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret and Savornin 1925 Paleobiology Database
  10. Petronio, Carmelo; Bellucci, Luca; Martiinetto, Edoardo; Pandolfi, Luca; Salari, Leonardo (2011). "Biochronology and palaeoenvironmental changes from the Middle Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene in Central Italy" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 33 (3): 485–517. doi:10.5252/g2011n3a4. hdl:2318/128607.
  11. Majungasaurus crenatissimus Depéret 1896 Paleobiology Database
  12. Protragocerus Deperet 1887 Paleobiology Database
  13. Cynohyaenodon Filhol 1873 Paleobiology Database
  14. HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
  15. IDREF.fr lengthy bibliography
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