The IMAM case. Additional investigation of a micropaleontological fraud

Bruno Granier (1, 2) , Monique Feist (3) , Edward Hennessey (4) , Ioan I. Bucur (5) , Baba Senowbari-Daryan (6)

1 LDO - Domaines Océaniques
2 Paléontologie, Département des Sciences de la Terre
3 C.C.62 - Laboratoire de Paléontologie
4 particulier
5 UBB - Babes-Bolyai University [Cluj-Napoca]
6 Institut für Paläontologie

Starting in 1996 and for almost a decade, M.M. IMAM contributed to twelve papers published in international geological journals. These papers dealt with the micropaleontology and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous to Miocene series from Egypt and Libya. They were abundantly illustrated in order to support the author's findings and interpretations. However most photographic illustrations (189 at least) were fabricated with material lifted from the publications of other authors, commonly from localities or stratigraphic intervals other than those indicated by M.M. IMAM.

Mots clés: Foraminifera; Corallinales; Dasycladales; Charophyta; fraud; Egypt; Libya

Domaines: Paléontologie; Stratigraphie

Bruno Granier, Monique Feist, Edward Hennessey, Ioan I. Bucur, Baba Senowbari-Daryan. The IMAM case. Additional investigation of a micropaleontological fraud. Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology, 2009, CG2009 (A04), pp.1-14. ⟨hal-00386066⟩