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Laurent Marivaux is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and has a body of research chiefly in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with additional contributions to Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, prominently Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Social Psychology, indicative of a multidisciplinary approach to understanding both biological and environmental processes.

The scientist's research topics cover Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research. These areas illustrate a focus on the evolutionary history and ecological dynamics of various organisms and their environments through geological time.

Laurent Marivaux has contributed to several academic journals and publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • MorphoMuseuM
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Human Evolution

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a number of coauthors, particularly:

  • Pierre-Olivier Antoine
  • François Pujos
  • Myriam Boivin
  • Narla Shannay Stutz
  • Philippe Münch

Selected recent papers illustrate the research themes they explore:

  • Eocene intra-plate shortening responsible for the rise of a faunal pathway in the northeastern Caribbean realm, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Lost islands in the northern Lesser Antilles: possible milestones in the Cenozoic dispersal of terrestrial organisms between South-America and the Greater Antilles, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Early Oligocene chinchilloid caviomorphs from Puerto Rico and the initial rodent colonization of the West Indies, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Biotic community and landscape changes around the Eocene-Oligocene transition at Shapaja, Peruvian Amazonia: Regional or global drivers?, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • An eosimiid primate of South Asian affinities in the Paleogene of Western Amazonia and the origin of New World monkeys, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography

    Pierre Olivier Antoine;Laurent Marivaux;Darin A. Croft;Guillaume Billet

  • A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

    Pierre Olivier Antoine;M. Alejandra Abello;Sylvain Adnet;Ali J. Altamirano Sierra

  • Himalayan Forelands: palaeontological evidence for Oligocene detrital deposits in the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan)

    Jean-Loup Welcomme;Mouloud Benammi;Jean-Yves Crochet;Laurent Marivaux

  • Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids

    Jean-Jacques Jaeger;K Christopher Beard;Yaowalak Chaimanee;Mustafa Salem

  • A fossil lemur from the Oligocene of Pakistan

    Laurent Marivaux;Laurent Marivaux;Jean-Loup Welcomme;Pierre-Olivier Antoine;Grégoire Métais

  • Constraints on the collision and the pre-collision tectonic configuration between India and Asia from detrital geochronology, thermochronology, and geochemistry studies in the lower Indus basin, Pakistan

    Guangsheng Zhuang;Yanina Manya Rachel Najman;Stephane Guillot;Martin Roddaz

  • Anthropoid primates from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills): Data on early anthropoid evolution and biogeography

    Laurent Marivaux;Pierre-Olivier Antoine;Syed Rafiqul Hassan Baqri;Mouloud Benammi

  • FIRST RECORD OF PALEOGENE ELEPHANTOIDEA (MAMMALIA, PROBOSCIDEA) FROM THE BUGTI HILLS OF PAKISTAN

    Pierre-Olivier Antoine;Jean-Loup Welcomme;Laurent Marivaux;Ibrahim Baloch

  • Hystricognathy vs sciurognathy in the rodent jaw: a new morphometric assessment of hystricognathy applied to the living fossil Laonastes (Diatomyidae).

    Lionel Hautier;Renaud Lebrun;Renaud Lebrun;Soonchan Saksiri;Jacques Michaux

  • Early rhinocerotids (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from South Asia and a review of the Holarctic Paleogene rhinocerotid record

    Pierre-Olivier Antoine;Stéphane Ducrocq;Laurent Marivaux;Yaowalak Chaimanee

  • Lithofacies, depositional environments, regional biostratigraphy and age of the Chitarwata Formation in the Bugti Hills, Balochistan, Pakistan

    Grégoire Métais;Grégoire Métais;Pierre-Olivier Antoine;S.R. Hassan Baqri;Jean-Yves Crochet

  • Cynocephalid dermopterans from the Palaeogene of South Asia (Thailand, Myanmar and Pakistan) : systematic, evolutionary and palaeobiogeographic implications

    Laurent Marivaux;Loïc Bocat;Yaowalak Chaimanee;Jean‐Jacques Jaeger

  • Djebelemur, a tiny pre-tooth-combed primate from the Eocene of Tunisia: a glimpse into the origin of crown strepsirhines.

    Laurent Marivaux;Anusha Ramdarshan;Anusha Ramdarshan;El Mabrouk Essid;Wissem Marzougui

  • Mammalian Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Sulaiman Province, Pakistan

    Pierre-Olivier Antoine;Gregoire Métais;Maeva J. Orliac;J.-Y. Crochet

  • NEW REMAINS OF PONDAUNGIMYS ANOMALUROPSIS (RODENTIA, ANOMALUROIDEA) FROM THE LATEST MIDDLE EOCENE PONDAUNG FORMATION OF CENTRAL MYANMAR

    Laurent Marivaux;Stéphane Ducrocq;Jean-Jacques Jaeger;Bernard Marandat

  • New rodent assemblages from the Eocene Dur At‐Talah escarpment (Sahara of central Libya): systematic, biochronological, and palaeobiogeographical implications

    Jean-Jacques Jaeger;Laurent Marivaux;Mustapha Salem;Awad Abolhassan Bilal

  • New diatomyid and baluchimyine rodents from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills, Balochistan): systematic and paleobiogeographic implications

    Laurent Marivaux;Jean-Loup Welcomme

  • Lost islands in the northern Lesser Antilles: possible milestones in the Cenozoic dispersal of terrestrial organisms between South-America and the Greater Antilles

    Jean-Jacques Cornee;Philippe Münch;Mélody Philippon;Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel

  • Eocene intra-plate shortening responsible for the rise of a faunal pathway in the northeastern Caribbean realm.

    Mélody Philippon;Jean-Jacques Cornée;Philippe Münch;Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen

  • New tropical carcharhinids (chondrichthyes, Carcharhiniformes) from the late Eocene-early Oligocene of Balochistan, Pakistan: Paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic implications

    S. Adnet;P.-O. Antoine;S. R. Hassan Baqri;J.-Y. Crochet

  • Zegdoumyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia), stem anomaluroid rodents from the Early to Middle Eocene of Algeria (Gour Lazib, Western Sahara): new dental evidence

    Laurent Marivaux;Mohammed Adaci;Mustapha Bensalah;Helder Gomes Rodrigues

  • 3D models related to the publication: Djebelemur, a tiny pre-tooth-combed primate from the Eocene of Tunisia: a glimpse into the origin of crown strepsirhines

    Laurent Marivaux;Renaud Lebrun;Rodolphe Tabuce

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre-Olivier Antoine
Pierre-Olivier Antoine University of Montpellier
Jean-Jacques Jaeger
Jean-Jacques Jaeger University of Poitiers
Yaowalak Chaimanee
Yaowalak Chaimanee University of Poitiers
K. Christopher Beard
K. Christopher Beard University of Kansas
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Martin Roddaz
Martin Roddaz Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet University of Poitiers
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Patrice Baby
Patrice Baby Paul Sabatier University
Mathieu Schuster
Mathieu Schuster University of Strasbourg

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