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Patrick Vignaud

Patrick Vignaud

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32
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6227
World Ranking
8557
National Ranking
690

Overview

Patrick Vignaud is affiliated with the University of Poitiers in France and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences. Their work spans subfields including Paleontology, Anthropology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology, and Ecology.

Their research topics focus notably on Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Marine animal studies overview, and Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide.

Among recent publications, Patrick Vignaud has contributed to the following papers:

  • Inner ear sensory system changes as extinct crocodylomorphs transitioned from land to water (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad (2022, Nature)
  • A NEW LAGOMORPH FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF CHAD (CENTRAL AFRICA) (2021, Spanish Journal of Palaeontology)
  • The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) (2024, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)
  • Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad (2020, Research Square)

Frequent coauthors in Patrick Vignaud's research include:

  • Hassane Taïsso Mackaye
  • Andossa Likius
  • Mark T. Young
  • Yanina Herrera
  • Sven Sachs

The main venues where Patrick Vignaud publishes research include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • Research Square

Best Publications

  • A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa

    Michel Brunet;Franck Guy;Franck Guy;David Pilbeam;Hassane Taisso Mackaye

  • Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad

    Patrick Vignaud;Philippe Duringer;Hassane Taïsso Mackaye;Andossa Likius;Andossa Likius

  • Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

    Christoph P. E. Zollikofer;Marcia Ponce de Leon;Daniel Eric Lieberman;Franck Guy;Franck Guy

  • The age of the Sahara desert.

    Mathieu Schuster;Mathieu Schuster;Philippe Duringer;Jean-François Ghienne;Patrick Vignaud

  • New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad

    Michel Brunet;Franck Guy;Franck Guy;David Pilbeam;Daniel Eric Lieberman

  • Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali: Mio-Pliocene hominids from Chad.

    Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard;Didier L. Bourlès;Philippe Duringer;Marc Jolivet

  • Holocene Lake Mega-Chad palaeoshorelines from space

    Mathieu Schuster;Claude Roquin;Philippe Duringer;Michel Brunet

  • Herbivore paleodiet and paleoenvironmental changes in Chad during the Pliocene using stable isotope ratios of tooth enamel carbonate

    Antoine Zazzo;Hervé Bocherens;Michel Brunet;Alain Beauvilain

  • Isotopic evidence for an early shift to C₄ resources by Pliocene hominins in Chad.

    Julia Lee-Thorp;Andossa Likius;Hassane T. Mackaye;Patrick Vignaud

  • Phytolith signal of aquatic plants and soils in Chad, Central Africa

    Alice Novello;Alice Novello;Doris Barboni;Laure Berti-Equille;Laure Berti-Equille;Jean Charles Mazur

  • Chad: discovery of a vertebrate fauna close to the Mio-Pliocene boundary

    Michel Brunet

  • Morphological affinities of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene hominid from Chad) cranium.

    Franck Guy;Daniel Eric Lieberman;David Pilbeam;Marcia Ponce de Leon

  • Diets of modern and late Miocene hippopotamids: Evidence from carbon isotope composition and micro-wear of tooth enamel

    Jean-Renaud Boisserie;Jean-Renaud Boisserie;Antoine Zazzo;Gildas Merceron;Gildas Merceron;Cécile Blondel

  • Application of the authigenic 10Be/9Be dating method to continental sediments: Reconstruction of the Mio-Pleistocene sedimentary sequence in the early hominid fossiliferous areas of the northern Chad Basin

    Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard;Didier L. Bourlès;Regis Braucher;Maurice Arnold

  • New termite trace fossils : Galleries, nests and fungus combs from the chad basin of Africa (Upper Miocene - Lower Pliocene)

    Philippe Duringer;Mathieu Schuster;Jorge Fernando Genise;Hassan T. Mackaye

  • Inner ear sensory system changes as extinct crocodylomorphs transitioned from land to water

    Julia A. Schwab;Mark T. Young;James M. Neenan;Stig A. Walsh;Stig A. Walsh

  • Tchad: découverte d'une faune de mammifères du Pliocène inférieur

    Michel Brunet;Alain Beauvilain;Denis Geraads;Franck Guy

  • Freshwater fish δ18O indicates a Messinian change of the precipitation regime in Central Africa

    Olga Otero;Christophe Lécuyer;François Fourel;François Martineau

  • Anthracothere dental anatomy reveals a late Miocene Chado-Libyan bioprovince

    Fabrice Lihoreau;Jean-Renaud Boisserie;Laurent Viriot;Yves Coppens

  • The Jurassic Thalattosuchia (Crocodyliformes) of Chile; a paleobiogeographic approach

    Zulma Gasparini;Patrick Vignaud;Guillermo Chong

  • The oldest African fox (Vulpes riffautae n. sp., Canidae, Carnivora) recovered in late Miocene deposits of the Djurab desert, Chad.

    Louis de Bonis;Stéphane Peigné;Andossa Likius;Hassane Taïsso Mackaye

  • Symphyseal shape variation in extant and fossil hominoids, and the symphysis of Australopithecus bahrelghazali

    Franck Guy;Hassane-Taïsso Mackaye;Andossa Likius;Patrick Vignaud

  • Les thalattosuchia, crocodiles marins du mésozoïque : systématique phylogénétique, paléoécologie, biochronologie et implications paléogéographiques

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  • Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene

    Mathieu Schuster;Philippe Duringer;Jean-François Ghienne;Claude Roquin

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet University of Poitiers
Mathieu Schuster
Mathieu Schuster University of Strasbourg
Denis Geraads
Denis Geraads Sorbonne University
David Pilbeam
David Pilbeam Harvard University
Jean-François Ghienne
Jean-François Ghienne University of Strasbourg
Philippe Duringer
Philippe Duringer University of Strasbourg
Didier Bourlès
Didier Bourlès Aix-Marseille University
Hervé Bocherens
Hervé Bocherens University of Tübingen
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Antoine Zazzo
Antoine Zazzo French National Museum of Natural History

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