Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (September 6, 1802 - June 30, 1857) was a great French naturalist. He made major contributions in many areas, including zoology, malacology, palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (838x1166, 136 KB) Alcide Dessalines dOrbigny, French naturalist (1802-1857) Uploaded from fr. ... September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... --69. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines. ... Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of non-human animals. ... Classes Caudofoveata Aplacophora Polyplacophora - Chitons Monoplacophora Bivalvia - Bivalves Scaphopoda - Tusk shells Gastropoda - Snails and Slugs Cephalopoda - Squids, Octopuses, etc. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... World geologic provinces Oceanic crust  0-20 Ma  20-65 Ma  >65 Ma Geologic provinces  Shield  Platform  Orogen  Basin  Large igneous province  Extended crust Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason))[1] is the science and study of the solid matter of a celestial body, its composition... Archaeology, archeology, or archology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Initiation rite of the Yao people of Malawi Anthropology (from the Greek word , man or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...

D'Orbigny was born in Couëron (Loire-Atlantique), the son of a ship's physician and amateur naturalist. The family moved to La Rochelle in 1820, where his interest for natural history was raised, while studying the marine fauna and especially microscopic creatures, that he named "foraminiferans". Couëron is a french commune in the Loire-Atlantique département and in the Pays de la Loire région. ... Loire-Atlantique (formerly Loire-Inférieure) is a département on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic Ocean. ... La Rochelle is a city and commune of western France, and a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean (population 76,584 in 1999). ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Orders Allogromiida Carterinida Fusulinida - extinct Globigerinida Involutinida - extinct Lagenida Miliolida Robertinida Rotaliida Silicoloculinida Spirillinida Textulariida incertae sedis    Xenophyophorea    Reticulomyxa The Foraminifera, or forams for short, are a large group of amoeboid protists with reticulating pseudopods, fine strands that branch and merge to form a dynamic net. ...

In Paris he became a disciple of the geologist L.-A. Cordier (1777-1861) and Georges Cuvier. All his life, he would follow the theory of Cuvier and stay opposed to Lamarckism. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region ÃŽle-de-France Department Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area¹ 86. ... Georges Cuvier Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. ... Lamarckism or Lamarckian evolution is a theory put forward by the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, based on heritability of acquired characteristics, the once widely accepted idea that an organism can acquire characteristics during its lifetime and pass them on to its offspring. ...

D'Orbigny travelled, on a mission for the Paris Museum, in South America between 1826 and 1833. He visited Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru. He returned to France with an enormous collection of more than 10,000 natural history specimens. He described part of his findings in La Relation du Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale. His contemporary, Charles Darwin called this book "one of the great monuments of science in the 19th century". The other specimens were described by zoologists at the museum. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist [1] who achieved lasting fame by producing considerable evidence that species originated through evolutionary change, at the same time proposing the scientific theory that natural selection is the mechanism by which such change occurs. ...

On the shore of Rio Magdalen. Image from the book : "Voyages pittoresque dans les deux Amériques"

Between 1839 and 1849 as Charles (synonym)he edited Dictionanaire Universal d'Histoire Naturelle in which many new taxa were erected. At the shore of Rio Magdalena From the Book Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Ameriques. ... At the shore of Rio Magdalena From the Book Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Ameriques. ...

In 1840, d'Orbigny started the methodical description of French fossils and published La Paléontologie Française (8 vols). 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1849 he published another major work, Prodrome de Paléontologie Stratigraphique. In this book he described almost 18,000 species. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1853 he became professor of palaeontology at the Paris Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. The chair of paleontology was created especially in his honor. 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Muséum national dHistoire naturelle (MNHN) is the French national museum of natural history. ...

He described as first the geological timescales. He defined numerous geological strata, still used today as chronostratigraphic reference such as Toarcian, Callovian, Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian, Aptian, Albian and Cenomanian. Chronostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy that studies the age of rock strata in relation to time. ... In the geologic timescale, the Aptian is the age of the Lower Cretaceous epoch of the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era of the Phanerozoic eon that is comprehended between 125 and 112 million years ago, approximately. ... Albian (Fr. ... The Cenomanian (also known as Woodbinian) is the first stage of the Late Cretaceous Epoch. ...

He died in the small town of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine. Pierrefitte-sur-Seine is a commune of the Seine-Saint-Denis département and a suburb of Paris, located between Saint-Denis and the Val dOise département. ...

The following genera and species were named in his honor :

• Nerocila orbignyi (Guérin, 1832)
• Alcidia Bourguignat, 1889
• Ampullaria dorbignyana Philippi, 1851
• Pinna dorbignyi Hanley, 1858
• Haminoea orbignyana A. de Férussac, 1822
• Pink Cuttlefish, Sepia orbignyana Férussac, 1826