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Turner S., Hunting for fossil bones: French women in vertebrate palaeontology

La chasse aux ossements fossiles: French women in vertebrate palaeontology Susan Turner* *Queensland Museum Geosciences, 69 Kilkivan Avenue, KENMORE, Queensland 4069, Australia; [email protected] A look at women who have contributed to understanding fossil vertebrates in France, shows that they have primarily been palaeoichthyologists and palaeomammalogists. Rare 19th (Mme de Christol, unknown dates) to early 20th century women were based mainly in Paris at the Museum National d’Histoire naturelle. Cuvier supported women in his own family and others worked at the museum (Taquet, 2006). Madeleine Friant (1892–1974) seems to be the first woman in the 20th century, although she came from a medical background and achieved an assistant directorship of comparative anatomy. Friant is one of the few/only to sign Lady Maud Woodward’s famous embroidered tablecloth (Milner, 2016). French palaeontologist and biostratigrapher Henriette Alimen (1900–1996) was one of the first women to submit a doctoral thesis in the field of prehistory and had a career focused on Quaternary geology and vertebrates in France and Africa, including hominids; she gained the Légion d’Honneur. Most women have worked since WWII (e.g., Berta & Turner, 2020), such as Jeanne Signeaux (1902–1987) who was assistant to Camille Arambourg for 25 years in the Institute of Paleontology. Other French women VPs have ‘operated’ in different parts of the world related to former French colonial possessions and also language preference, principally in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. One, Christiane Hélène Mendrèz-Carroll (1937–1978) conducted important research on South African dicynodonts before her tragic death. Many moved into other professions after their early research for lack of jobs and did not obtain an obituary or memorial, remaining almost ‘invisible’. Apart from the capital, main centres have been Montpelier, Strasbourg and Lille. Berta, A. & Turner, S. (2020). Rebels, Scholars and Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 328 p. Milner, A.C. (2016). Lady Smith Woodward’s tablecloth. In: Johanson, Z., Barrett, P.M., Richter, M., Smith, M. (Eds), Arthur Smith Woodward: His Life and Influence on Modern Vertebrate Palaeontology. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 430, 89–111. Taquet, P. (2006). Georges Cuvier. Naissance d’un génie. Odile Jacob, Paris, 539 p.