Professor Geneviève Termier (April 2, 1917, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 - May 27, 2005, Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse

Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse

Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.It is the southernmost station and endpoint of the RER B line.-References:**...

) was a French

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 and evolutionist. She was a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. In 1942 she went to Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

 where she met her husband Henri

Henri Termier

Professor Henri-François-Émile Termier was a French geologist.Born at Lyon into a scholarly family, he served in the First World War as an artillery officer during which he earned a Croix de guerre...

. Their son Michel was born three years later. She specialised in the studies of the gastropods

Gastropoda

The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca. The class Gastropoda includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to quite large...

. She also studied the South-East Asian Permian

Permian

The PermianThe term "Permian" was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil; Murchison asserted in 1841 that he named his "Permian...

 brachiopod

Brachiopod

Brachiopods are a phylum of marine animals that have hard "valves" on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, while the front can be opened for feeding or closed for protection...

s. Together with her husband, she is considered one of the greatest French paleontologists of the 20th century.

Selected bibliography

• Paléontologie marocaine - 5 volumes
• Histoire géologique de la biosphère
• Formation des continents et progression de la vie
• L'évolution de la lithosphère
• Quelques faits paléogéographiques et paléoécologiques relatifs à la limite de l'antécambrien et du cambrien
• Bryozoaires du paléozoïque supérieur de l'afghanistan
• Réflexions sur la sédimentation marine dans ses rapports avec l'érosion continentale
• Generalites sur les invertebres fossiles
• La trame géologique de l'histoire humaine
• Initiation à la paléontologie
• Sur la partie inférieure du flysch crétacé
  Cretaceous
  The Cretaceous , derived from the Latin "creta" , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide , is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ago. In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the...
  
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  Jurassic
  The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Mya to  Mya, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic era, also known as the age of reptiles. The start of the period is marked by...
  
  - all with Henri Termier