Maurice Jules Marie Collignon
Maurice Jules Marie Collignon (9 June 1893, Saint-Malo – 21 October 1978, Moirans) was a French geologist and paleontologist, who is best known for his research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar. A career military officer, in 1914 he received his diploma from the military academy at Saint-Cyr, then spent the next 36 years associated with the French armed services. In the meantime he conducted geological and paleontological research; as early as 1928 he was providing descriptions of ammonite fauna from Madagascar.
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Maurice Jules Marie Collignon
- Name
- Maurice Collignon
- Birth Name
- Maurice Jules Marie Collignon
- Born
- 9 June 1893
- Birthplace
- Saint-Malo, France
- Died
- 21 October 1978
- Place of death
- Moirans, france
- Occupation
- geologist, paleontologist
- Known for
- research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar
- Education
- military academy at Saint-Cyr
- Nationality
- France
- Honours
- Prix François-Fontannes · Croix de guerre 1914–1918 · Croix de guerre 1939–1945 · Luxembourg War Cross · Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Maurice Jules Marie Collignon (9 June 1893, Saint-Malo – 21 October 1978, Moirans) was a French geologist and paleontologist, who is best known for his research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar. A career military officer, in 1914 he received his diploma from the military academy at Saint-Cyr, then spent the next 36 years associated with the French armed services. In the meantime he conducted geological and paleontological research; as early as 1928 he was providing descriptions of ammonite fauna from Madagascar.
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In 1950 he retired from military service with the rank of major general. He then joined the Service géologique d'outre-mer as a paleontologist, and afterwards directed four 6-month missions of paleontological exploration in Madagascar (1952, 1953, 1954, 1957). From 1959 to 1978 he was a correspondent member of the Académie des sciences. During his career, he described numerous fossil taxa, such as the ammonite genus Cunningtoniceras. The ammonite family Collignoniceratidae commemorates his name.
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• Name — Maurice Collignon • Birth Name — Maurice Jules Marie Collignon • Born — 9 June 1893 • Birthplace — Saint-Malo, France • Died — 21 October 1978 • Place of death — Moirans, france • Occupation — geologist, paleontologist • Known for — research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar • Notable Works — ammonite family Collignoniceratidae • Education — military academy at Saint-Cyr
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• Ammonites néocrétacées du Ménabe (Madagascar), 6 volumes, 1948-56 – Neo-Cretaceous ammonites of Menabe. • Recherches sur les faunes albiennes de Madagascar, 5 volumes, 1949-51 – Research of Albian fauna of Madagascar. • Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar, (multi-volume, 1958 ff.) – Atlas of characteristic fossils of Madagascar.
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