Robert Hoffstetter
Julien Robert Hoffstetter (* June 11, 1908; † 29 December 1999) was a French paleontologist. His research focus was the Tertiary mammal fauna of South America. He is one of the pioneers of cladistics in France.
Life and work
Between 1946 and 1953 spent Hoffstetter in Ecuador and undertook numerous expeditions to Peru and Bolivia. In Bolivia, he was the first paleontologist who promoted the fossil remains of the Tertiary mammalian faunas of Salla Luribay, Quebrada Honda and Achiri to days. In addition, he was one of the scientists who studied the earliest primates and rodents in South America. 1946 described Hoffstetter the Bolyerschlangen and 1957, the dinosaur genus Lexovisaurus. In the 1950s, wrote Hoffstetter one of the first snake systematics in the light of fossil species. In addition, Hoffstetter was an expert for the paleobiogeography of primates, rodents and marsupials.
Hoffstetter was Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and 1972 he took over from Jean Piveteau the management of the Laboratoire de Paleontology Paleontology of Vertebres et Humaine in Paris. At the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, he taught as a professor of paleontology and vertebrate zoology.
Dedikationsnamen
After Hoffstetter include fossil taxa Archaeotrogon hoffstetteri, Cadurciguana hoffstetteri, Sallacyon hoffstetteri, Becklesius hoffstetteri, Paleotragus hoffstetteri and Euryzygomatomys hoffstetteri are named.
Works (selection)
- Faune du gisement précolombien d' Anse -Belleville: Reptiles, 1946
- Les mammifères pléistocènes de la république de l' Equateur, 1952
- Notice sur les travaux scientifiques et titres, 1955
- Contribution à l' étude of Orophodontoidea, gravigrades Cuirasses de la Patagonie, 1956
- Le gisement de fine terni, 1963
- Historique et géologie, 1963
- Révision of Artiodactyles de l' Eocene moyen de Lissieu (Rhône ), 1972
- Rongeur caviomorphes de l' Oligocene de Bolivie, 1976
- Phylogeny et Paleobiogeographie, 1982