Guillaume BILLET
Professeur
Collection manager
Lecturer
Affiliation entity
Équipe ÉVOMORPH
Interdisplinary research theme
Anatomy, Zoology, Systematics, Phylogenetics, Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology, Morphology, Mammalogy
Speciality
Evolutionary morphology of placental mammals, with a focus on South American taxa
Contact
E-mail
guillaume.billet [at] mnhn.fr
Phone
01 40 79 38 14
Fax
01 40 79 35 80
Custom address(es)
Bâtiment de paléontologie (CP38)
8 rue Buffon
75005 Paris
France
Responsibilities inside unit
Projet coordinator « Complex morphological variations and phylogenetic reconstructions »
Collections
Curator of Fossil Mammals Collection (MNHN)
Presentation
My work aims at improving our understanding of the patterns of morphological evolution in deep time, using mostly the diversification of extinct and extant South American placentals as a model. My studies on these aspects follow three main objectives:
- describing and analyzing the patterning of unusual morphological variations, at different hierarchical levels (eg, ontogenetical, interspecfic, inter-individual)
- studying potential links between these patterns of morphological variation and functional characteristics
- searching for a phylogenetic signal in morphological data and improving our use of this kind of data for phylogenetic reconstructions and placement of fossil taxa
Publication list
Publications
2026
- , 2026 — Brain drain: exceptional pattern of calvarial venation in pangolins and its phylogenetic significance for Ferae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society vol. 206, n° 3, zlag020
- , 2026 — Enamel histology in extinct mammals: Standardization of a methodological framework applied to toxodont notoungulates (Mammalia). Journal of Anatomy , ,
2025
- , May 2025 — New data on the earliest known arsinoitheriid embrithopod (Mammalia, Paenungulata), Namatherium Pickford, Senut, Morales, Mein & Sanchez, 2008 from the middle Eocene of Namibia. Geodiversitas vol. 47, n° 8,
- , 2025 — New data on the earliest known arsinoitheriid embrithopod (Mammalia, Paenungulata), Namatherium from the middle Eocene of Namibia (project). Geodiversitas vol. 47, n° 8, p. 343-366
- , January 2025 — Scaling up morphological differentiation of pangolin scales: Serial, ontogenetic and evolutionary variation. The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology vol. 308, n° 9, p. 2392-2412
2024
- , 2024 — Taxonomy and evolutionary history of peradectids (Metatheria): New data from the early Eocene of France. Journal of Mammalian Evolution vol. 31, n° 3, p. 31 Publisher: Springer Verlag
- , 2024 — 3D models related to the publication: Taxonomy and evolutionary history of peradectids (Metatheria): new data from the early Eocene of France. MorphoMuseum vol. 10, n° 3, e239 Publisher: Association Palæovertebrata
- , 2024 — New data on the earliest known arsinoitheriid embrithopod (Mammalia, Paenungulata), Namatherium from the middle Eocene of Namibia. Geodiversitas , , Publisher: Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris
2023
- , December 2023 — The Miocene La Venta Biome (Colombia): A century of research and future perspectives. Geodiversitas vol. 45, n° 26, Publisher: Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris
- , December 2023 — Pervasive cranial allometry at different anatomical scales and variational levels in extant armadillos. Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution , , Publisher: Wiley