Jean Piveteau (23 September 1899 – 7 March 1991) was a distinguished French vertebrate paleontologist.
He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1956 and served as the institute's president in 1973.
[1] Two genera of Triassic fish, the actinopterygian Piveteaunotus and the actinistian Piveteauia, and a genus of Middle Jurassic theropod dinosaur, Piveteausaurus, are named in his honor.
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