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Lionel Cavin is affiliated with the Natural History Museum of Geneva in Switzerland, where the focus lies on research related to paleontology and aquatic science within the broader fields of environmental and earth sciences. Their work encompasses extensive studies in paleontology and evolutionary biology as well as ichthyology and marine biology, addressing various aspects of fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

They have contributed to understanding evolutionary and paleontological studies and the paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, with particular attention to geological formations and processes. Cavin's research is frequently published in several venues that are prominent within their field.

  • PLoS ONE
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Diversity
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers include:

  • 'Distinct Responses of Elasmobranchs and Ray-Finned Fishes to Long-Term Global Change', 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • 'The last known freshwater coelacanths: New Late Cretaceous mawsoniid remains (Osteichthyes: Actinistia) from Southern France', 2020, PLoS ONE
  • 'The first late cretaceous mawsoniid coelacanth (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) from North America: Evidence of a lineage of extinct 'living fossils'', 2021, PLoS ONE
  • 'Giant Mesozoic coelacanths (Osteichthyes, Actinistia) reveal high body size disparity decoupled from taxic diversity', 2021, Scientific Reports
  • 'A review of Australia's Mesozoic fishes', 2020, Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

Key frequent coauthors involved in these studies include:

  • Christophe Ferrante
  • Tamara El Hossny
  • Guillaume Guinot
  • Éric Buffetaut
  • Haiyan Tong

The primary fields of study for Lionel Cavin are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of specialization include:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Paleontology
  • Aquatic Science
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The main topics that their research addresses are:

  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological formations and processes

Best Publications

  • Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: An overview

    L. Cavin;H. Tong;L. Boudad;C. Meister

  • 'Fish' (Actinopterygii and Elasmobranchii) diversification patterns through deep time.

    Guillaume Guinot;Lionel Cavin

  • A new Thai Mesozoic lungfish (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) with an insight into post‐Palaeozoic dipnoan evolution

    Lionel Cavin;Varavudh Suteethorn;Eric Buffetaut;Haiyan Tong

  • Palaeobiogeography of Cretaceous bony fishes (Actinistia, Dipnoi and Actinopterygii)

    Lionel Cavin

  • A NEW SEMIONOTIFORM (ACTINOPTERYGII, NEOPTERYGII) FROM UPPER JURASSIC – LOWER CRETACEOUS DEPOSITS OF NORTH‐EAST THAILAND, WITH COMMENTS ON THE RELATIONSHIPS OF SEMIONOTIFORMS

    Lionel Cavin;Varavudh Suteethorn

  • Preliminary Report on the Courtedoux Dinosaur Tracksite from the Kimmeridgian of Switzerland

    Daniel Marty;Wolfgang A. Hug;Andreas Iberg;Lionel Cavin

  • Effects of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event on Bony Fishes

    Lionel Cavin

  • Correlation between environment and Late Mesozoic ray-finned fish evolution

    Lionel Cavin;Peter L. Forey;Christophe Lécuyer

  • Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrates from southern France: A review of recent finds

    Eric Buffetaut;Jean Le Loeuff;Lionel Cavin;Sylvain Duffaud

  • A new lithographic limestone deposit in the Upper Cretaceous Austin Group at El Rosario, county of Múzquiz, Coahuila, northeastern Mexico

    Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Christina Ifrim;Harald Schmidt;Anja Rindfleisch

  • Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of the teleost Goulmimichthys arambourgi Cavin, 1995, from the Upper Cretaceous of Goulmima, Morocco

    L. Cavin

  • New Teleostei from the Agua Nueva Formation (Turonian), Vallecillo (NE Mexico)

    Alberto Blanco;Lionel Cavin

  • Using ghost lineages to identify diversification events in the fossil record.

    Lionel Cavin;Peter L Forey

  • Un nouveau gisement de vertébrés du crétacé supérieur à cruzy (hérault, sud de la France)

    Éric Buffetaut;Jean Le Lœuff;Haiyan Tong;Sylvain Duffaud

  • Latest European coelacanth shows Gondwanan affinities

    Lionel Cavin;Peter L Forey;Eric Buffetaut;Haiyan Tong

  • Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) ammonites from southern Morocco and south western Algeria

    Christian Meister;André Piuz;Lionel Cavin;Larbi Boudad

  • Oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of middle Cretaceous vertebrates from North Africa and Brazil: Ecological and environmental significance

    Romain Amiot;Xu Wang;Christophe Lécuyer;Eric Buffetaut

  • A new Cenomanian ichthyofauna from southeastern Morocco and its relationships with other early Late Cretaceous Moroccan faunas

    Lionel Cavin;Didier B. Dutheil

  • Unbalanced food web in a Late Cretaceous dinosaur assemblage

    Emilie Läng;Larbi Boudad;Laszlo Maio;Elias Samankassou

  • Overabundance of piscivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) in the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa: The Algerian dilemma

    Madani Benyoucef;Emilie Läng;Lionel Cavin;Kaddour Mebarki

  • Resolving homology in the face of shifting germ layer origins: Lessons from a major skull vault boundary.

    Camilla S Teng;Lionel Cavin;Robert E Maxson Jnr;Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra

  • Late cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages from the Laño quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update

    Xabier Pereda Suberbiola;José Carmelo Corral;Humberto Astibia Ayerra;Ainara Badiola Kortabitarte

  • Fishes and the Break-up of Pangaea

    L. Cavin;A. Longbottom;M. Richter

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Buffetaut
Eric Buffetaut École Normale Supérieure
Varavudh Suteethorn
Varavudh Suteethorn Mahasarakham University
Haiyan Tong
Haiyan Tong Mahasarakham University
Nathalie Bardet
Nathalie Bardet Université Paris Cité
Dany Azar
Dany Azar Lebanese University
Henri Cappetta
Henri Cappetta University of Montpellier
Christophe Lécuyer
Christophe Lécuyer Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Christian Meyer
Christian Meyer Greifswald University Hospital
Jean-Claude Rage
Jean-Claude Rage Université Paris Cité
François Baudin
François Baudin Sorbonne University

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