Florentino Ameghino

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Florentino Ameghino in the 1890s

Florentino Ameghino (born September 18, 1854 in Luján , Argentina , † August 6, 1911 in La Plata , Province of Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine naturalist , zoologist , paleontologist , geologist and anthropologist .

As an autodidact , he studied the areas of the southern pampas . In doing so, he put on the largest collection of fossils of the time, which provided him with important services in his important geological and paleontological studies. He also researched the prehistoric people found in Chelles , Argentina .

Ameghino was a student of Hermann Burmeister , who came from Germany .

Ameghino became professor of zoology at the University of Córdoba ( Córdoba, Argentina ), director of a department at the Museo de La Plata (one of the largest paleontological, zoological and archaeological museums in South America) and, in 1902, director of the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires.

In Oberá was Natural History Museum and in Chubut a dam named after him. In the northwest of the province of Buenos Aires is a city and a Partido named after him, also wearing a lunar crater and canyon Ameghino Gully in Antarctica his name.

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SURNAME Ameghino, Florentino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine naturalist, zoologist, paleontologist, geologist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Lujan , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1911
Place of death La Plata , Buenos Aires Province