used today as chronostratigraphic reference such as Toarcian, Callovian, Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian, Aptian, Albian and Cenomanian. He died in the small town of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, near Paris. Catastrophism D'Orbigny, a disciple of Georges Cuvier, was a notable advocate of catastrophism. He recognized twenty-seven catastrophes in the fossil record. This became known as the "doctrine of successive creations". He attempted to reconcile the fossil record with the Genesis creation narrative. Both uniformitarian geologists and theologians rejected his idea of successive creations. Palaeontologist Carroll Lane Fenton has noted that his idea of twenty-seven world-wide creations was "absurd", even for creationists. L. Sprague de Camp has written that "Alcide d'Orbigny, carried the idea to absurdity. Dragging in the supernatural, d'Orbigny argued that, on twenty-seven separate occasions, God had wiped out all life on earth and started over with a whole new creation." Taxa Several zoological and botanical taxa were named in his honor, including the following genera and species. Alcidedorbignya – an extinct genus of pantodont mammal Alcidia Bourguignat, 1889 – a genus of sea snails Ampullaria dorbignyana Philippi, 1851 – a species of freshwater snail Apostolepis dorbignyi Schlegel, 1837 – a species of burrowing snake Asthenes dorbignyi Reichenbach, 1853 - a species of furnariid bird Bachia dorbignyi A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – a species of lizard Cadomites orbignyi de Grossouvre, 1930 – a species of ammonites from the Bathonian Chaunus dorbignyi (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1841) – a species of toad Haminoea orbignyana A. de Férussac, 1822 – a species of sea snail Hecticoceras (Orbignyceras) C. Gérard & H. Contaut, 1936 – a subgenus of ammonite from the Callovian Liolaemus dorbignyi Koslowsky, 1898 – a species of lizard Lystrophis dorbignyi A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – a species of snake Nerocila orbignyi (Guérin, 1832) – a species of ectoparasitic isopod Orbignya Mart. ex Endl. – a genus of palm trees, which includes the species Orbignya speciosa (Mart. ex Spreng.), commonly known as the Brazilian palm tree or babaçu in Portuguese Pinna dorbignyi Hanley, 1858 – a species of bivalve mollusc Potamotrygon orbignyi (Castelnau, 1855) – a species of freshwater stingray Quadracythere orbignyana (Bosquet, 1852) – a species of marine ostracod Rhinodoras dorbignyi (Kner, 1855) – a species of thorny catfish Sepia (Rhombosepion) orbignyana A. de Férussac in d'Orbigny, 1826 – a species of cuttlefish, commonly known as the pink cuttlefish Subdiscosphinctes orbignyi Hantzpergue, 1987 – a species of ammonites from the