Auguste Pomel

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Auguste Nicolas Pomel (September 20, 1821 - 1898) was a French geologist and paleontologist

Pomel was born in Issoire. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils. His works included Sur les Alcyonaires fossiles Miocenes de l'Algerie (1868) and Des races indigènes de l'Algérie et du rôle que leur reservent leurs aptitudes (1871). He died in Dra-el-Mizan.

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