Auguste Bravard [SEP] date of death
Auguste Bravard
(Pierre Joseph) Auguste Bravard (18 June 1803 – 28 March 1861) was a French mining engineer turned palaeontologist. He hunted fossils in the Vaucluse, Allier and his native Puy de Dôme.
Biography.
Bravard emigrated to Argentina in the winter of 1852-53 and was a long-term resident in Buenos Aires. He unearthed and studied mammalian fossils, some of which, like the skull of "Mesotherium", were sent back to the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Paris. Pleistocene mammal fossils
It was Serres' view that there was only one underlying animal type.
Despite Serres' having officially named the genus "Mesotherium", it was known from the late 19th century to the early 20th century under the name ""Typotherium"", given it by the French palaeontologist living in Argentina, Auguste Bravard; under this name, Bravard sent the skull he found to Paris, which led to the family being named "Typotheriidae", and served as the basis for the order Typotheria. As the name "