Jacques-Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps

Jacques Amand Eudes - Deslongchamps ( born January 17, 1794 in Caen, † January 17, 1867 ) was a French physician, zoologist and paleontologist.

Although not originally from affluent circumstances, Jacques Amand Eudes - Deslongchamps could study medicine in his native city and in 1812 assistant physician in the Navy and in 1815 assistant surgeon in the military hospital of Caen. When he arrived for obtaining the doctorate in Paris, Cuvier articulated research and teaching interest in natural history and paleontology. After he was surgeon in Caen in 1822, he sought distraction in geological research. Soon he discovered remains of Telosaurus in the local quarries and was an avid paleontologist. He was co-founder of the Natural History Museum in Caen and founder of the Linnean Society of Normandy. In 1825 he was at the Science Faculty of the University of Caen Professor of Zoology and 1847 dean.

1838 discovered Eudes - Deslongchamps remains of a limestone embedded in Poekilopleuron and despite the considerable destruction fragments of the skeleton, mainly vertebrae, ribs and belly ribs reconstruct. Jacques Amand Eudes - Deslongchamps has for the first time described abdominal ribs. The preparations have been destroyed during the invasion of Normandy.

His son Eugène Eudes - Deslongchamps (1830-1889) was also a zoologist and paleontologist.

Further Reading

• Obituary. In: Geological Magazine. 4, No. 33, 1867, pp. 140-141, online.