Inventory of Georges Pissarro 's fossil collection from the Lutetian (middle Eocene) of Cotentin (France) kept in the Science Museum of Laval (France)

[摘要] One-hundred and fourteen samples from the Georges Pissarro 's collection are kept in the Sciences Museum of Laval. Most of these represent the molluscan fauna from the Eocene of Cotentin (Hautteville-Bocage, Fresville and Gourbesville; France), Loire-Atlantique (Saffré, France) and Alabama (Monroe, U.S.). They were part of a bigger collection gathered by Maurice Cossmann and Georges Pissarro at the end of the XIX^th and the beginning of the XX^th centuries, then subsequently split in two parts. The first one, Cossmann 's, was sent to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Like the Marin Defrance 's collection from the Museum of Caen, the second part, Pissarro 's, was considered lost, and then partially discovered in the Sciences Museum of Laval, giving it some scientific significance. These samples from Cotentin have been curated and the types and figured specimens found are illustrated herein.

[学科分类] 地质学