Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles : comprenant une introduction à l'étude de ces animaux, l'anatomie comparée des systèmes organiques qui peuvent contribuer à faciliter la détermination des espèces fossiles, une nouvelle classification des poissons, exprimant leurs rapports avec la série des formations ..., atlas t. 1
Prehistoric fishes were a largely unexplored paleontological topic until Louis Aggassiz (1807-1873) published this ground-breaking work. The most comprehensive book on fossil fishes at the time, it names hundreds of new species, including two in honor of Mary Anning, the fossil hunter who discovered the ichthyosaur, and who helped Agassiz examine fossils for his study. He was also fascinated by the science of glacial movement and was one of the first to propose the theory that Earth had experienced a number of Ice Ages. Agassiz’s scholarship heavily influenced Smithsonian Secretary Charles Doolittle Walcott, whose discovery of fossils in the Burgess Shale greatly furthered the study of paleontology.
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