Denise Sigogneau-Russell

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Denise Sigogneau-Russell
Born
Denise Sigogneau

c. 1941/42
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Denise Sigogneau-Russell (born c. 1941/42) is a French

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.[1]

Background

Denise Sigogneau-Russell completed her PhD in 1969 on

therapsids - the forerunners of mammals - from South Africa, where she spent two years. In 1976 a Belgian amateur fossil hunter brought her a mammal tooth from a quarry in eastern France, and this inspired her to change direction and begin research on mammals from the Mesozoic.[2] She subsequently studied them in France, Portugal, Madagascar, Morocco, and England. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska said that due to Sigogneau-Russell's "scholarship and diligence, she has contributed enormously to the knowledge of early mammal evolution.".[2]

She was married to Donald E. Russell, also a palaeontologist specialising in mammals, with whom she carried out field projects and collaborated.

Research

Sigogneau-Russell has published on many mammals and their predecessors, but she is best known for her work on Triassic

therapsids, as well as co-authoring papers on more recent fossil mammals.[4][5]

In 1983 Sigogneau-Russell published her first review of the mammals from Rhaetian rocks in Saint-Nicholas-de-Port in Lorraine, France.[6] She later published on more material from this area, including over 200 teeth obtained by screen-washing sediment. In 1991 she published a book on Mesozoic mammals, Les mammifères au temps des dinosaures [7]

She has authored over 56 research papers and contributed many more articles on palaeontology. She has named at least 3 orders and families, 5 genera, and 5 species of Mesozoic mammal from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Scientific contributions

Taxonomic names erected by Denise Sigogneau-Russell: Haramiyidans:

Docodontans:

References

  1. ^ "SIGOGNEAU-RUSSELL - Scientific Publications of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris".
  2. ^ a b Kielan-Jaworowska, Z. 2013. In Pursuit of Early Mammals. Indiana University Press.
  3. ^ Sigogneau-Russell, D. and Sun, A.L., 1981. A brief review of Chinese synapsids. Geobios, 14(2), pp.275-279.
  4. ^ Gingerich, P.D., Russell, D.E., Sigogneau-Russell, D. and Hartenberger, J.L., 1979. Chorlakkia hassani, a new middle Eocene dichobunid (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan)
  5. ^ MARSHALL L. G., MUIZON C. de & SIGOGNEAU-RUSSEL D. 1995. — Pucadelphys andinus (Marsupialia, Mammalia) from the Early Paleocene of Bolivia. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 164 p. (Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle ; 165).
  6. ^ Sigogneau-Russell, D., 1983. Nouveaux taxons de Mammifères rhétiens. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 28(1-2).
  7. ^ Sigogneau-Russell, D., 1991. Les mammifères au temps des dinosaures. Masson.
  8. ^ a b Sigogneau-Russell (1991), "First evidence of Multituberculata (Mammalia) in the Mesozoic of Africa". Neues Jahrb Geol Paläontol, Monatshefte, p. 119-125.
  9. ^ a b P. M. Butler, D. Sigogneau-Russell and P. C. Ensom (2011). "Possible persistence of the morganucodontans in the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group (Dorset, England)". Cretaceous Research. 33: 135–145. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.09.007.
  10. ^ a b c D. Sigogneau-Russell, R. M. Frank, and J. Hemmerlé. 1986. A new family of mammals from the lower part of the French Rhaetic. The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 99-108
  11. ^ a b c Sigogneau-Russell D. 2003. Docodonts from the British Mesozoic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 48(3)