Albert-Félix de Lapparent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert-Félix de Lapparent

French paleontologist

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1905

Place of Birth: Le Mont-Dieu, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 28-Feb-1975

Profession: paleontologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Albert-Félix de Lapparent (1905–1975) was a French palaeontologist.
He was also a Sulpician priest.
He undertook a number of fossil-hunting explorations in the Sahara desert.
He contributed greatly to our knowledge of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
In 1986, José Bonaparte named the dinosaur Lapparentosaurus in his honour. Dinosaurs named by Lapparent were Inosaurus tedreftensis (Lapparent, 1960) and Lusitanosaurus liassicus (Lapparent and Zbyszewski, 1957). New species of known genera are also credited to him.
In alphabetical order, they are: Apatosaurus alenquerensis (Lapparent and Zbyszewski, 1957), Astrodon pusillus (Lapparent and Zbyszewski, 1957), Brachiosaurus atalaiensis (Lapparent and Zbyszewski, 1957), Brachiosaurus nougaredi (Lapparent, 1960), Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis (Lapparent, 1955), Elaphrosaurus gautieri (Lapparent, 1960), Elaphrosaurus iguidiensis (Lapparent, 1960), Megalosaurus pombali (Lapparent and Zbyszewski, 1957) and Rebbachisaurus tamesnensis (Lapparent, 1960). The giant crocodile Sarcosuchus was also discovered by him, in 1964.