Gérard Paul Deshayes

Gérard Paul Deshayes, ( born May 13, 1795 in Nancy, † June 9, 1875 in Boran, Oise ) was a French paleontologist and Konchologe. Desh. is its official abbreviation zoological.

Deshayes studied in Strasbourg, came to Paris in 1819 and dedicated to the study of fossil mollusks. He participated in several scientific expeditions, became a professor of natural history at the museum in Paris.

His most important works are related to the tertiary formation, for which he divided the Tertiary period of the Pliocene, Miocene and Eocene in three parts with Charles Lyell. 1870, the Wollaston Medal, awarded him the Geological Society of London for his achievements.

Works

• Traité élémentaire de conchyliologie (1834-1858)
• Conchyliologie de l' île de la Réunion Bourbon (1863 ).
• Description of the fossil coquilles des environs de Paris (1824-1837)
• Description of coquilles caractéristiques of terrains (1831 )
• Description des animaux sans Vertebres découverts dans le bassin de Paris (1856-1866)
• He also was reissued with Henri Milne Edwards, the " Histoire naturelle des animaux sans Vertebres " by Jean -Baptiste de Lamarck ( 1836-46, 11 vols ).

He also edited the mollusks to the scientific trip to the Morea, to Georges Cuvier's work " Le règne animal" ( German: " The Animal Kingdom " ), to the " Encyclopédie méthodique " and delivered a sequel to the " Histoire des Mollusques terrestres et fluviatile " of André Ferussac ( 1838-51 ). For the "Exploration scientifique de l' Algérie " he wrote the " Histoire naturelle of Mollusks " (1845 ).