Altangel pearl

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Altangerel Perle (born July 1, 1945 ) is a Mongolian vertebrate paleontologist . He is a professor in the Faculty of Geology at the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar .

He is also quoted from P. Altangerel.

He studied at Lomonosov University , where he completed his habilitation in 1991 (Russian doctoral degree). Originally an engineer, he continued to work in this profession in the late 1960s. He has been excavating fossils since the 1970s.

He excavated the Ukhaa Tolgod site in the Gobi desert, which he helped to discover, and is one of the first to describe the dromaeosaur Achillobator giganticus (with Mark Norell , James Matthew Clark 1999), Goyocephale lattimorei (with Teresa Maryańska , Halszka Osmólska 1982), Erlikosaurus andrewsi (1980 with Barsbold, named after a demon Erlik in Mongolian mythology) and Mononykus (1993 with Luis M. Chiappe and James Clark), Harpymimus okladnikovi (with Rinchen Barsbold 1984), Enigmosaurus mongolensis (with Barsbold 1983), Segnosaurus galbinensis (1979 with Barsbold). The Segnosaurus finds were the first Therizinosauroidea , Erlikosaurus also belongs to this group. He also unearthed fossils of Velociraptor and Protoceratops .

He worked with both the American Museum of Natural History expeditions from 1991 onwards and with the earlier expeditions from the Soviet Union and Poland.

In 1982, Halszka Osmolska named the primitive theropod Hulsanpes perlei after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. Dashzeveg, D., MJ Novacek, MA Norell, JM Clark, LM Chiappe, A. Davidson, MC McKenna, L. Dingus, C. Swisher, P. Altangerel: Extraordinary Preservation in a New Vertebrate Assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia . Nature 374: 446-449 (1995)
  2. JM Clark, A. Perle, MA Norell: The skull of Erlicosaurus andrewsi, a Late Cretaceous "segnosaur" (Theropoda: Therizinosauridae) from Mongolia . American Museum Novitates 3115, 1994, 1-39