Jean-Bernard Caron

Jean-Bernard Caron
Jean-Bernard Caron in the field at the Burgess Shale
Born
Jean-Bernard Caron

France
NationalityCanadian, French
Alma mater
  • Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand
  • Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon
  • University of Toronto, Toronto
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsPalaeontology
InstitutionsRoyal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Thesis Taphonomy and Community Analysis of the Middle Cambrian Greater Phyllopod Bed, Burgess Shale (British Columbia)  (2005)

Jean-Bernard Caron is a French and Canadian palaeontologist currently working as a curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Caron is also cross-appointed at the University of Toronto as an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences. He is known for his work on the Burgess Shale.