# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-buffetaut
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:52:20.839Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-buffetaut"
name: "Eric Buffetaut"
slug: "eric-buffetaut"
description: "Éric Buffetaut is a French paleontologist, author and researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1976 where he is a Doctor of Science and Director of Research. Buffetaut is a specialist of fossil archosaurs, mainly dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and has published many books on paleontology. He is one of the major paleontologists to support the thesis of the fall of a meteorite as the main cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event."
tagline: "French paleontologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-11-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.71
  momentum:             9.562946673996702
  historical:           6.542513333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%91%D1%8E%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Ерік Бюффето"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Buffetaut"
    title: "Éric Buffetaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Buffetaut"
    title: "Éric Buffetaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Buffetaut"
    title: "Éric Buffetaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Buffetaut"
    title: "Éric Buffetaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Buffetaut"
    title: "Éric Buffetaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Buffetaut"
    title: "Éric Buffetaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump