James Alexander Logie Du Toit, South African hydro-geologist and paleobotanist (Newlands, Rondebosch, near Cape Town 14 March 1878 – Pinelands, Cape Town 25 February 1948)
Authored 86 works
Most known as main supporter of Wegenerian continental drift theory in the early 1900s
DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA
Genera
Eretmonia 1932
Moltenia 1927
Species
Dicroidiopsis incisa
Eretmonia natalensis
Glossopteris longicaulis
Lepidopteris africana
Moltenia dentata
Nilssonia brownii
Pseudoctenis capensis
Pseudoctenis fissa
Pseudoctenis lanciformis
Pseudoctenis spatulata
HONORS
Du Toit crater (on Mars)
Genus Dutoitia Hoeg 1930 (Fossil Plantae)
Genus Alexia Anderson & Anderson 2003 (Fossil Plantae)
Genus Dutoitella Dingle 1981 (Ostracoda)