François CLARAC
Ater
Affiliation entity
Équipe ÉVOMORPH
Contact
E-mail
francois.clarac [at] mnhn.fr
Custom address(es)
MNHN - Bâtiment de géologie
43 rue Buffon
75005 Paris
France
Presentation
My work focuses on identifying functional adaptations in various vertebrate groups from the early Paleozoic to the present day. To this end, I combine a range of methods that bring together various scientific disciplines: paleontology, biomechanics, zoology and experimental biology.
I am currently employed as a post-doctoral fellow by Alan Pradel as part of the ANR “MACHER” project, which aims to understand adaptations to durophagy in chimaeras over their long evolutionary history. In this context, I am working in collaboration with various laboratories (i.e. the Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale at Sorbonne University and the UMR “Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution” at MNHN); I am also taking part in various excavation projects in Paleozoic deposits in South America (i.e. Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia).
Publications
2025
- , March 2025 — An integrative model of chimaera jaw links mechanical stress to localized cartilage mineralization. Chondrichthyans possess a tessellated cartilage which is characterized by a layer of mineralized minute plates (i.e., the… Comptes Rendus Palevol vol. 24, n° 8,
- , February 2025 — First occurrence of Ischyodus sp. (Holocephali) in the locality of Les Ginestes (Occitania, France). Cybium : Revue Internationale d’Ichtyologie , ,
- , 2025 — Elucidating the thermometabolism of Thalattosuchus superciliosus (de Blainville) Young, Brignon, Sachs, Hornung, Foffa, Kitson, Johnson & Steel, 2021 (Archosauria: Metriorhynchidae): a paleohistological study. Comptes Rendus. Palevol vol. 24, n° 17, p. 333-344
2024
- , March 2024 — The extended osteoderm shield in Paleosuchus sp. : A dwarf crocodylian adaptation to the equatorial forest ecosystem?. Comptes Rendus. Palevol vol. 23, n° 12, Publisher: Académie des sciences (Paris)
2021
- , 2021 — « Early tetrapodomorphs » in Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology.. , , p. 325-344
2019
- , February 2019 — The Crocodylian Skull and Osteoderms: A Functional Exaptation to Ectothermy?. Zoology vol. 132, , p. 31-40 Publisher: ElsevierISSN09442006
- , 2019 — The function(s) of bone ornamentation in the crocodylomorph osteoderms: a biomechanical model based on a finite element analysis. Paleobiology vol. 45, n° 1, p. 182-200 Publisher: Paleontological Society
2018
- , January 2018 — Vascularization in Ornamented Osteoderms: Physiological Implications in Ectothermy and Amphibious Lifestyle in the Crocodylomorphs?: Vascularization in Ornamented Osteoderms. The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology vol. 301, n° 1, p. 175-183 Publisher: Wiley-BlackwellISSN19328486
2017
- , October 2017 — Do the ornamented osteoderms influence the heat conduction through the skin? A finite element analysis in Crocodylomorpha. Journal of Thermal Biology vol. 69, , p. 39 Publisher: Elsevier
- , May 2017 — Static osteogenesis does not precede dynamic osteogenesis in periosteal ossification of Pleurodeles (Caudata, Amphibia) and Pogona (Squamata, Lepidosauria). Journal of Morphology vol. 278, n° 5, p. 621-628 Publisher: WileyISSN03622525