Dr Jérémy Tissier
SNSF Postdoctoral fellow
JURASSICA Museum
Route de Fontenais 21
2900 Porrentruy
Switzerland
Tel. +41 32 420 9208
jeremy.tissier[at]jurassica.ch
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Department of Geosciences
University of Fribourg
Chemin du musée 6
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
After studying the evolution of Rhinocerotidae through the Grande Coupure event (Eocene-Oligocene transition; approximately 33 Ma) during my PhD, I studied the petrosal bone and bony labyrinth of perissodactyls through an Early.Postdoc Mobility project (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/199605) at the American Museum of Natural History (New York). I then studied the origin and evolution of the earliest perissodactyls around 56 Ma through the PerissOrigin project at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels). I am currently investigating the phylogeny (using parsimony and Bayesian analysis) of perissodactyls as part of an FNS project (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/10003968), with a particular focus on tapiromorphs (rhinoceroses and tapirs). The aim of this project is to gain a better understanding of their evolutionary history and the causes of their drastic decline in diversity following various climatic and environmental changes.
Research thematics
- Evolution, systematics, taxonomy, anatomy and phylogeny of perissodactyls
- Anatomy and evolution of the petrosal bone and bony labyrinth of perissodactyls
- Rates of speciation and extinction – biological crises
- Palaeobiogeography
Keywords
Perissodactyla, Tapiromorpha, Ceratomorpha, Rhinocerotidae, phylogeny, CenozoicPublications
Employment history
| 2023–2025 | Postdoctoral fellow, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2021–2023 | SNSF Postdoctoral fellow, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA |
| 2020–2021 | Research assistant, JURASSICA Museum |
| 2016–2020 | SNSF PhD student, JURASSICA Museum and Universiy of Fribourg |
| 2014–2016 | Collection technician, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France |
Academic background
| 2016–2020 | PhD in Geosciences, JURASSICA Museum and University of Fribourg PhD thesis : Impact of the Grande Coupure event (Eocene / Oligocene boundary) on the evolutionary history of European Rhinocerotoidea (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) |
| 2012–2014 | Master of « Systematics, Evolution, Paleontology », Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle/University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
Master thesis: Description by synchrotron tomography of a « fossil mummy » of salamander from the Phosphorites du Quercy. |
| 2009–2012 | Bachelor « Earth and Environment », University of Poitiers/University of Orléans, France
Bachelor thesis: Inventory of perissodactyl and artiodactyl mammals of Sansan (Miocene, France) |
Fieldwork
| 2024 | Bighorn Basin (Early Eocene), Wyoming, US |
| 2021 | Béon-1 (Early Miocene), Gers, France |
| 2018 | Morlaca (Eocene), Transylvania, Romania |
| 2017–2020 | Murs (Oligocene), Luberon, France |
| 2014 | Muse (Permian-Carboniferous), Burgundy, France |
| 2012 | Phosphorites du Quercy (Eocene-Miocene), France |
Professional services
- Associate editor: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
- Peer-reviewer for: Royal Society Open Science • Fossil Imprint • Journal of Paleontology • Papers in Palaeontology • Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X • Palaeogeography - Palaeoclimatology - Palaeoecology • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society • Peer Community in Paleontology • Journal of Mammalian Evolution • Annales de Paléontologie • Swiss Journal of Paleontology • Nature Ecology & Evolution • PloS One • Scientific Reports