Around 1856 he succeeded his father as professor of zoology at the faculty of sciences at the University of Caen, later becoming a professor of geology and dean (1861). After the death of his father in 1867, he devoted himself to the completion of a memoir on the teleosaurs, the joint labours being embodied in his Prodrome des Téléosauriens du Calvados. He contributed several of his memoirs to the Société Linnéenne de Normandie.[1]
Selected writings
Mémoire sur les genres Leptaena et Thecidea des terrains jurassiques du Calvados, (1853–59) – Memoir on the genera Leptaena and Thecidea in the Jurassic strata of Calvados.
Mémoire sur les fossiles de Montreuil-Bellay (Maine-et-Loire), (1860 with M Hébert) – Memoir on fossils of Montreuil-Bellay (Maine-et-Loire).
Etudes sur les étages jurassiques inférieurs de la Normandie, (1864) – Studies on the lower Jurassic strata of Normandy.
Documents sur la géologie de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, (1864) – Documents on the geology of New Caledonia.
Recherches sur l'organisation du manteau chez les Brachipodes articule´s et principalement sur les spicules calcaires contenus dans son interieur, (1864) – Research on the organization of the mantle in articulated brachiopods, mainly on calcareousspicules, etc.
Notes sur les Téléosauriens, (1867) – Notes on Teleosauridae.
Le Jura normand. Études paléontologiques des divers niveaux jurassiques de la Normandie, comprenant la description et l'iconographie de tous les fossiles vertébrés et invertébrés qu'ils renfement, (1877) – The Jura Normand. Paleontological studies of various Jurassic layers in Normandy, including descriptions and illustrations of fossil vertebrates and invertebrates.
