Cécile Mourer-Chauviré

Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, French palaeontologist.

• Institut national des sciences de l'univers (INSU) French National Centre for Scientific Research

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 17 taxon names authored by Cécile Mourer-Chauviré

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1981

• Mourer-Chauviré, C. 1981. Première indication de la présence de phorusracidés, famille d'oiseaux géants d'amérique du sud, dans le tertiaire Européen: Ameghinornis nov. gen. (Aves, ralliformes) des phosphorites du quercy, France. Geobios 14(5) 637–647. DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(81)80140-4 Reference page. 

1994

• Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, R., Moutou, F. & Ribes, S. 1994. Mascarenotus nov. gen. (Aves, Strigiformes), genre endémique éteint des Mascareignes et M. grucheti n. sp., espèce éteinte de la Réunion. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris 2(318): 1699–1706. Full article (PDF available for download.) Reference page. 

1996

• Mourer-Chauviré, C., Senut, B., Pickford, M. & Mein, P. 1996. Le plus ancien représentant du genre Struthio (Aves, Struthionidae), Struthio coppensi n. sp., du Miocène inférieur de Namibie. Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences. Série IIa, Sciences de la terre et des planètes 325–332. BnF Gallica ResearchGate Reference page. 

1999

• Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, R., Ribes, S. & Moutou, F. 1999. The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans. In Olson, S.L. (ed) Avian paleontology at the close of the 20th century: proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4–7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: 1–38. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810266.89.1 ResearchGate BHL Reference page. 

2001

• Mourer-Chauviré, C. 2001. The systematic position of the genus Basityto Mlikovsky, 1998 (Aves: Gruiformes: Gruidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114(4): 964–971. BHL Reference page. 

2003

• Mourer-Chauviré, C. 2003. Birds (Aves) from the Middle Miocene of Arrisdrift (Namibia). Preliminary study with description of two new genera: Amanuensis (Accipitriformes, Sagittariidae) and Namibiavis (Gruiformes, Idiornithidae). Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19: 103–113. PDF Reference page. 

2004

• Mourer-Chauviré, C., Berthet, D. & Hugueney, M. 2004. The late Oligocene birds of the Créchy quarry (Allier, France), with a description of two new genera (Aves: Pelecaniformes: Phalacrocoracidae, and Anseriformes: Anseranatidae). Senckenbergiana lethaea 84(1): 303–315. DOI: 10.1007/BF03043473 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2005

• Mourer-Chauviré, C. & Balouet, J.C. 2005. Description of the skull of the genus Sylviornis Poplin, 1980 (Aves, Galliformes, Sylviornithidae new family), a giant extinct bird from the Holocene of New Caledonia. In Alcover, J.A. & Bover, P. (eds.): Proceedings of the International Symposium “Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach”. Monografies de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears 12: 205–218. PDF from Researchgate. Reference page. 

2011

• Mourer-Chauviré, C., Tabuce, R., Mahboubi, M., Adaci, M. & Bensalah, M. 2011. A Phororhacoid bird from the Eocene of Africa. Naturwissenschaften 98: 815–823. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0829-5 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Mayr, G., Alvarenga, H. & Mourer-Chauviré, C. 2011. Out of Africa: Fossils shed light on the origin of the hoatzin, an iconic Neotropic bird. Naturwissenschaften 98: 961–966. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0849-1 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2016

• Bourdon, E., Mourer-Chauviré, C. & Laurent, Y. "2016" [2014]. Early Eocene birds from La Borie, southern France. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(1): 175–190. DOI: 10.4202/app.00083.2014 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2018

• Louchart, A., Bastian, F., Baptista, M., Guarino-Vignon, P., Hume, J.P., Jacot-des-Combes, C., Mourer-Chauviré, C., Hänni, C. & Ollivier, M. 2018. Ancient DNA reveals the origins, colonization histories, and evolutionary pathways of two recently extinct species of giant scops owl from Mauritius and Rodrigues Islands (Mascarene Islands, south-western Indian Ocean). Journal of Biogeography. 45 (12): 2678–2689. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13450 Reference page.