Pierre Toussaint Marcel de Serres de Mesplès (3 November 1780  – 22 July 1862 in Montpellier), also known as Marcel de Serres, was a French caver, geologist and naturalist.[1]

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Biography

Professor of mineralogy and geology in the faculty of science at Montpellier University from 1809. He occupied this university chair for 53 years. His professional interests included the human and animal fossils of the caves of the south of France. At his end he contributed to the French state a large number of fossils of the region Languedoc.[1][2]

He was contemporary with Cuvier (either Frédéric or Georges ).[3]

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External links

• (University of Michigan) sound recording (2006) Miami Beach, FL : Sony BMG Music A punto de estallar − 1843 (in French)
• Géognosie des terrains tertiaires: ou, Tableau des principaux animaux invertébrés des terrains marins tertiaires, du midi de la France [Knowledge from the earth in the tertiary environment or, Tableau of the principle invertebrate animals of the marine landscape of the middle of France]. – 276 pages Chez Pomathio-Durville, 1829 (in French)
• Works by or about Pierre Toussaint Marcel de Serres de Mesplès at Internet Archive

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