Pascal Godefroit

Pascal Godefroit is a Belgian paleontologist. He discovered dinosaurs like Olorotitan in 2003.¹ Godefroit is the director of earth and life sciences at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.²

Below is a list of taxa that Godefroit has contributed to naming:

Year	Taxon	Authors
2021	Garrigatitan meridionalis gen. et sp. nov.	Díez Díaz, Garcia, Superbiola, Jentgen-Ceschino, Stein, Godefroit, & Valentin³
2013	Mistralestes arcensis gen. et sp. nov.	Tabuce, Tortosa, Vianey-Liaud, Garcia, Lebrun, Godefroit, Dutour, Berton, Valentin, & Cheylan⁴
2013	Malawania anachronus gen. et sp. nov.	Fischer, Appleby, Naish, Liston, Riding, Brindley, & Godefroit⁵
2013	Aurornis xui gen. et sp. nov.	Godefroit, Cau, Dong-Yu, Escuillié, Wenhao, & Dyke⁶

References

Miserey, Yves (4 June 2013). "Un petit dinosaure chinois, nouvel ancêtre des oiseaux". Le Figaro (in French). Dassault Group. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
"Muséum des Sciences Naturelles – Direction opérationnelle Terre et Histoire de la Vie" (in French). Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
Díez Díaz, Verónica; Garcia, Géraldine; Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier; Jentgen-Ceschino, Benjamin; Stein, Koen; Godefroit, Pascal; Valentin, Xavier (2 November 2021). "A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Velaux-La-Bastide Neuve (southern France)". Historical Biology. 33 (11): 2998–3017. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1841184. ISSN 0891-2963. Retrieved 10 June 2026 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
Tabuce, Rodolphe; Tortosa, Thierry; Vianey-Liaud, Monique; Garcia, Géraldine; Lebrun, Renaud; Godefroit, Pascal; Dutour, Yves; Berton, Sévérine; Valentin, Xavier; Cheylan, Gilles (1 November 2013). "New eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Aix-en-Provence Basin, south-eastern France: European Late Cretaceous mammals". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (3): 653–672. doi:10.1111/zoj.12074. Retrieved 22 May 2026 – via Oxford Academic.
Fischer, Valentin; Appleby, Robert M.; Naish, Darren; Liston, Jeff; Riding, James B.; Brindley, Stephen; Godefroit, Pascal (23 August 2013). "A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs". Biology Letters. 9 (4): 20130021. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0021. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 3730615. PMID 23676653. Retrieved 9 June 2026 – via The Royal Society Publishing.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
Godefroit, Pascal; Cau, Andrea; Dong-Yu, Hu; Escuillié, François; Wenhao, Wu; Dyke, Gareth John (29 May 2013). "A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds". Nature. 498 (7454): 359–362. doi:10.1038/nature12168. ISSN 1476-4687. Retrieved 5 January 2025.

[Le_Figaro_-_4_June_2013_-_Un_petit_dinosaure_chinois,_nouvel_ancêtre_des_oiseaux-1] Miserey, Yves (4 June 2013). "Un petit dinosaure chinois, nouvel ancêtre des oiseaux". Le Figaro (in French). Dassault Group. Retrieved 9 November 2013.

[Muséum_des_Sciences_Naturelles_-_Direction_opérationnelle_Terre_et_Histoire_de_la_Vie-2] "Muséum des Sciences Naturelles – Direction opérationnelle Terre et Histoire de la Vie" (in French). Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2013.

[3] Díez Díaz, Verónica; Garcia, Géraldine; Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier; Jentgen-Ceschino, Benjamin; Stein, Koen; Godefroit, Pascal; Valentin, Xavier (2 November 2021). "A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Velaux-La-Bastide Neuve (southern France)". Historical Biology. 33 (11): 2998–3017. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1841184. ISSN 0891-2963. Retrieved 10 June 2026 – via Taylor and Francis Online.

[4] Tabuce, Rodolphe; Tortosa, Thierry; Vianey-Liaud, Monique; Garcia, Géraldine; Lebrun, Renaud; Godefroit, Pascal; Dutour, Yves; Berton, Sévérine; Valentin, Xavier; Cheylan, Gilles (1 November 2013). "New eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Aix-en-Provence Basin, south-eastern France: European Late Cretaceous mammals". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (3): 653–672. doi:10.1111/zoj.12074. Retrieved 22 May 2026 – via Oxford Academic.

[5] Fischer, Valentin; Appleby, Robert M.; Naish, Darren; Liston, Jeff; Riding, James B.; Brindley, Stephen; Godefroit, Pascal (23 August 2013). "A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs". Biology Letters. 9 (4): 20130021. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0021. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 3730615. PMID 23676653. Retrieved 9 June 2026 – via The Royal Society Publishing.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)

[Aurornis-6] Godefroit, Pascal; Cau, Andrea; Dong-Yu, Hu; Escuillié, François; Wenhao, Wu; Dyke, Gareth John (29 May 2013). "A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds". Nature. 498 (7454): 359–362. doi:10.1038/nature12168. ISSN 1476-4687. Retrieved 5 January 2025.

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