Perceval de Loriol

Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol (24 July 1828, Geneva – 23 December 1908, Cologny) was a Swiss paleontologist and stratigraphist.

He studied natural sciences and paleontology in Geneva as a pupil of François-Jules Pictet.

He was one of the founders of the Schweizerische Paläontologische Gesellschaft and editor of the Mémoires de la Société suisse paléontologique.

In 1902 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva[1] He is remembered for his investigations of fossil echinoderms found in Europe and North Africa from the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Upper Tertiary Eras.

[1] He was the author of numerous taxa, an example being the crinoid family Bourgueticrinidae (1882).