# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philippe-janvier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:02:33.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philippe-janvier"
name: "Philippe Janvier"
slug: "philippe-janvier"
description: "Philippe Janvier is a French paleontologist, specialising in Palaeozoic vertebrates, who currently works at the Museum National de l’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He has written several books and scientific papers on Palaeozoic vertebrates and contributed to the Tree of Life phylogeny project. He has led the largest paleontology research group in France, located in Paris. Janvier received the award of the Grand prix scientifique de la Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca  on June 11, 2008, for his work. He was a founding member of the Société Française de Systématique. He is currently Associate Editor of the Comptes Rendus Palevol for paleoichthyology. He was elected member of the Académie des Sciences on 18 November 2014."
tagline: "French paleontologist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://paleo.mnhn.fr/"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Janvier"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippus_Janvier"
    title: "Philippus Janvier"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump