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    Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (French: [ɑ̃ʁi maʁi dykʁɔtɛ də blɛ̃vil]; 12 September 1777 – 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist. Blainville...
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  • district in Quebec, Canada Blainville (AMT), railway station in Blainville, Quebec People: Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850), French zoologist...
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    stones are in fact fossilised faeces. In 1822 Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, editor of Journal de Physique, coined the word "palaeontology" to refer...
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    on alone after Cuvier died in 1832. In 1832, he succeeded Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850) as chair of Histoire naturelle des mollusques...
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    scientific publication Journal de physique Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville published in January 1822, in the Journal de physique, an article titled "Analyse...
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  • other purported giant skeletons. Much later, the zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville analyzed the bones and concluded they came from a mastodon...
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    Starfish (category Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville)
    scientific name Asteroidea was given to starfish by the French zoologist de Blainville in 1830. It is derived from the Greek aster, ἀστήρ (a star) and the...
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    the Normandy region in north-western France. The zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850) was born in Arques. Arques is situated near the...
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    Ichthyosauria (category Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville)
    Joseph Pentland. In 1835, the order Ichthyosauria was named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville. In 1840, Richard Owen named an order Ichthyopterygia as an...
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    Tragelaphus (category Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville)
    the family Bovidae. The genus authority is French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, who first mentioned it in the journal Bulletin des Sciences...
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