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Maurice Collignon, the Glossary

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Maurice Jules Marie Collignon (9 June 1893, Saint-Malo – 21 October 1978, Moirans) was a French geologist and paleontologist, who is best known for his research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, Albian, Ammonoidea, École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, Collignoniceratidae, Cretaceous, Cunningtoniceras, France, French Academy of Sciences, Geologist, Madagascar, Menabe, Moirans, Paleontology, Saint-Malo.

  2. 20th-century French geologists
  3. People from Saint-Malo

Académie des sciences d'outre-mer

Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (formerly italics) is a learned society created in 1922 whose field of activity is mainly geography and general history in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania.

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Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Ammonoidea

Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.

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École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr

The École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is a French military academy, and is often referred to as Saint-Cyr.

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Collignoniceratidae

Collignoniceratidae is a family of Upper Cretaceous ammonites characterized by typically more or less evolute shells with compressed, oval, or square whorl sections; serrate or entire keels; and dense ribs with one to 5 tubercles.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Cunningtoniceras

Cunningtoniceras is a stocky acanthoceratid ammonite from the upper Cenomanian stage of the late Cretaceous of the western U.S., found e.g. in Arizona and New Mexico.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Menabe

Menabe is a region in western Madagascar, with its capital at Morondava.

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Moirans

Moirans is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo (Gallo: Saent-Malô) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.

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See also

20th-century French geologists

People from Saint-Malo

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Collignon