Eric Buffetaut
As a leading French dinosaur expert, he has made a significant contribution to pterosaur research. He discovered the first giant pterosaur remains in Europe and is also known for finding the earliest Sauropod Dinosaur, Isanosaurus attavipachi, dated in the Upper Triassic of Thailand.
Buffetaut, E. & Wellnhofer, P. 1983 Un reste de Pterosaurien dans l’Hauterivien (Crétacé inférieur) de la Haute-Marne. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France, 1983(7),25(1):111-115 Paris
Wellnhofer P., Buffetaut E. & Gogase, P. 1983 A pterosaurien notarium from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Paläont.Z. 57(1/2): 147-157
Haubold, H. & Buffetaut, E. 1987 A new interpretation of Longisquama insignis, an enigmatic reptile from the Upper Triassic of Central Asia. C. r. hebd. Séanc. Acad. Sci. Paris (2) 305, 65–70.
Buffetaut, E., Dubus, B. & Mazin, J.-M., 1989. Une vertebre de Pterosaure (Reptilia: Archosauria) dans l'Aptien de l'Aube, Bulletin annual de l'Association Geologique Auboise, 11, pp. 3-8.
Buffetaut E., Bernier, P., Barale, G., Bourseau, J.-P., Gaillard, C., Gall, J.-C. & Wenz, S. (1990): A new pterosaur bone from the Kimmeridgian lithographic limestone of Cerin (France). N.Jb.Geol.Paläont.Mh. 1990(6): 321-328
Buffetaut, E. 1996 Pterosaur extinction: decline and fall or just fall? J. Vert. Paleont. 16 (3), 24A–25A.
Buffetaut, E. 1996 The “ornithurine” from the Lower Cretaceous of Changji, Xinjiang (China): bird or pterosaur? Cret. Res. 17, 505–508.
Buffetaut E, Laurent Y, LeLoeuff J and Bilotte M; 1997 A terminal Cretaceous giant pterosaur from the French Pyrenees, Geological Magazine, July 1997, 134.4: 553-556
Buffetaut, E., Bernier, P., Barale, G., Bourseau, J.-P., Gaillard, C., Gall, J.-C. & Wenz, S. 1990 A new pterosaur bone from the Kimmeridgian lithographic limestones of Cerin (France). N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Mheft. pp. 321–328.
Buffetaut, E., Clarke, J. B. & Leloeuff, J. 1996 A terminal Cretaceous pterosaur from the Corbières (southern France) and the problem of pterosaur extinction. Bull. Soc. géol. France 167, 753–759.
Buffetaut, E., Laurent, Y., Leloeuff, J. & Bilotte, M. 1997 A terminal Cretaceous giant pterosaur from the French Pyrenees. Geol. Mag.134, 553–556.
Buffetaut, E., Lepage, J.-J. & Lepage, G. 1998 A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian of the Cap de la Hève (Normandy, France). Geol. Mag. 135, 719–722.
Buffetaut, E. 1999 Pterosauria from the Upper Cretaceous of Lano (Iberian Peninsula): a preliminary comparative study. Estud. Mus. Cienc. Nat. Alava 14, 289–284.
Wellnhofer P. & Buffetaut E. 1999. Pterosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Morocco. Palaontologische Zeitschrift, 73, 133-142.
Buffetaut, E. 2001 An azhdarchid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Cruzy (Hérault, France). Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (Sciences de la Terre et des planètes) (Sér. II)_ 333 (6): 357-361.
Buffetaut, E. & Guibert, J.-P. 2001 An early pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Oxfordian of Normandy (northwestern France). Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences Sciences de la Terre et des planètes (Sér. IIa) 333 (7): 405-409.
Buffetaut E., Girgorescue D. and Csiki Z., 2002, A new giant Pterosaur with a robust skull from the latest Cretaceous of Romania. Naturwissenschafte vol. 89, pp. 180-184. (Hatzegopteryx thambema).
Buffetaut, E., Grigorescu, D., and Csiki, Z., 2003, Giant azhdarchid pterosaurs from the terminal Cretaceous of Transylvania (western Romania): In: Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, edited by Buffetaut, E., and Mazin, J.-M., Geological Society Special Publication, n. 217, p. 91-104.
Buffetaut, E., and Mazin, J.-M., 2003, Evolution and palaeobiology of pterosaurs: In: Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, edited by Buffetaut, E., and Mazin, J.-M., Geological Society Special Publication, n. 217, p. 1-3.
Buffetaut E., Martill D. and Escuillié F., Buffetaut, E., 2005, Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (Southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent findes: Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, vol.5, p.39-48., Pterosaurs as part of a spinosaur diet. Nature, 430, 33 (1st July 2004)
Buffetaut, E., 2004, A giant pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the eastern Paris Basin: Bulletin de la Société Géologiques de France, vol.175, no.6, p.573-577.
Buffetaut, E., Martill, D. and Escuillie, F., 2004, Pterosaurs as part of a spinosaur diet: Nature, vol.430, p.33.
Buffetaut, E., 2005, Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (Southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent findes: Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, vol.5, p.39-48.