Christian Mathis
Encyclopedia
Christian Mathis is a French
paleontologist. He mainly worked on the Lagerstätte
of Robiac and Quercy
in the South of France.
Mathis described the following genus
and species
He also took part of the discovery of the flying reptile of the Inferior Toarcian
in Nancy, the Dorygnathus banthensis
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
paleontologist. He mainly worked on the Lagerstätte
Lagerstätte
A Lagerstätte is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossil richness or completeness.Palaeontologists distinguish two kinds....
of Robiac and Quercy
Quercy
Quercy is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Auvergne....
in the South of France.
Mathis described the following genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
and species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
- Bouffinomus (B. lamaudi)
- Leptictidium ginsburgi
- Leptictidium sigei
- ParamiacisParamiacisParamiacis is an extinct genus of Miacidae. Christian Mathis has defined to make a difference between the miacidae from Europe and the American genus Miacis. There are two species of it, P. exilis and P...
(P. teilhardi)
He also took part of the discovery of the flying reptile of the Inferior Toarcian
Toarcian
The Toarcian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, an age or stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic. It spans the time between 183.0 Ma and 175.6 Ma...
in Nancy, the Dorygnathus banthensis
Dorygnathus
Dorygnathus was a genus of pterosaur that lived in Europe during the Early Jurassic period, 180 million years ago when shallow seas flooded much of the continent. It had a short 1.5 meter wingspan, and a relatively small triangular sternum, which is where its flight muscles attached. Its skull...
.
Main Works
- Contribution à la connaissance des Mammifères de Robiac (Éocène supérieur): Creodonta et Carnivora in Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1985
- Précisions sur le genre Paramiacis Mathis (Carnivora, Miacidae), Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1987
- Quelques insectivores primitifs nouveaux de l'Eocène supérieur du sud de la France in Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1989