Perceval de Loriol

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Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol (24 July 1828 – 23 December 1908) was a Swiss paleontologist and stratigrapher. He studied natural sciences and paleontology in Geneva under François-Jules Pictet. After working as an estate manager, he spent almost forty years at the Natural History Museum of Geneva. He helped found the Swiss Paleontological Society and edited its journal, Mémoires de la Société suisse paléontologique. In 1902 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva. He is best known for studying fossil echinoderms from Europe and North Africa dating to the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Upper Tertiary periods. He described many taxa, including the crinoid family Bourgueticrinidae in 1882. He came from a Calvinist family from Bresse; the eldest son of Charles Armand Louis Madelain de Loriol and Sophie de Portes. He married Louise Sophie Le Fort and had six children.