Philippe Taquet

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Philippe Taquet (b. April 25, 1940 Saint-Quentin, Aisne) is a French paleontologist.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since November 30, 2004. He has studied and described a number of new dinosaur species from Africa, especially from the Aptian site of Gadoufaoua in Niger (such as Ouranosaurus).