Fernando Novas

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Fernando Emilio Novas is an Argentine vertebrate paleontologist who studies dinosaurs.

Novas received his PhD from the Universidad de La Plata and is a student of José Bonaparte . He works at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia . He is a Fellow of the National Geographic Society and conducts research for the Argentine Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET).

He dug for dinosaurs in Patagonia (and also in India, Bolivia, Brazil, the USA) and discovered numerous species. He is one of the first to describe the 70 million year old titanosaur Puertasaurus reuili (with Leonardo Salgado , Jorge Calvo , Federico Agnolin 2005), Neuquenraptor (with Diego Pol 2005), Patagonykus (1996), the bird-like Unenlagia (with Pablo F. Puerta, 1997 ), Austroraptor (with D. Pol, JI Canale, JD Porfiri, Jorge Calvo 2008), Megaraptor (1996), Aniksosaurus (with Rubén Dario Martinez 2006), Skorpiovenator (with Canale, CA Scanferla, Agnolin, 2009), Tyrannotitan (with S. de Valais, Thomas H. Rich , Patricia Vickers-Rich 2005), Talenkauen (with Andrea Cambiaso, Alfredo Ambrioso 2004), Rahiolisaurus , Orkoraptor (with Martin D. Ezcurra, A. Lecuona 2008), Abelisaurus (with José Bonaparte 1985 ), Frenguellisaurus (1986) and Aragosaurus (with Sanz et al. 1987). With Paul Sereno he examined a newly found complete skeleton of Herrerasaurus in 1988 .

Ekrixinatosaurus novasi was named in his honor .

Fonts

  • Buenos Aires, un millón de años atrás , Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores. Ciencia que ladra. 2006
  • The Age of Dinosaurs in South America , Indiana University Press, 2009
  • with Federico L. Angolin Avian ancestors: a review of the phylogenetic relationships of the theropods Unenlagiidae, Microraptoria, Anchiornis and Scansoriopterygidae , Springer Verlag 2013
  • Dinosaur Monophyly , J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, 1996, 723-741, doi: 10.1080 / 02724634.1996.10011361

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Named after Pablo Puerta, the discoverer of this and many other dinosaurs, and Santiago Reuil, the taxidermist. It was found near Cerro Los Hornos in the province of Santa Cruz, near Lake Viedma near a petrified forest.
  2. ↑ Novas, Pol New evidence on deinonychosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia , Nature, 433, 2005, 858-861
  3. ↑ Novas Anatomy of Patagonykus puertai (Theropoda, Avialae, Alvarezsauridae), from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia , Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, 1997, 137–166
  4. ↑ Novas, G. Cladera, P. Puerta New theropods from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia , Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, 1996, 56A
  5. ↑ Novas, Puerta New evidence concerning avian origins from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia , Nature 3871997, 390-392. The name means half bird in the Mapuche language.
  6. ↑ Fernando Novas, Diego Pol, Juan I. Canale, Juan D. Porfiri, Jorge Calvo A bizarre Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of Gondwanan dromaeosaurids , Proceedings of The Royal Society, B, 276, 2009, pp. 1101-1107
  7. ↑ Novas Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, gen. Et sp. nov., a large-clawed, Late Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia , Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18, 1996, 4-9
  8. ↑ Sereno, Novas The complete skull and skeleton of an early dinosaur , Science, 258, 1992, 1137-1140
personal data
SURNAME Novas, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Novas, Fernando Emilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century