Jorge Calvo
Jorge Orlando Calvo (born April 27, 1961 in Córdoba (Argentina) ) is an Argentine vertebrate paleontologist who mainly deals with dinosaurs .
Calvo studied geology at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba with a degree in 1986, was then assistant to José Bonaparte in Buenos Aires and went to the University of Chicago in 1992 with a Fulbright scholarship , where he obtained his master’s degree in 1994. In 2006 he received his PhD in Zoology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He has been a lecturer since 1987 and a professor at the Universidad Nacionale de Comahue (Faculty of Engineering, Institute of Geology and Petroleum) in Neuquén since 1987 and a research assistant at the Museum of Geology and Paleontology there, which he directed from 1994 to 2000. In 2000 he founded the Paleontological Museum of Rincón de los Sauces and in 2002 the Paleontological Center on Lago Barreales (Centro Paleontológico Lago Barreales), of which he is the director today.
He excavated mainly in the Neuquén Province (where he initiated the systematic search for dinosaurs as a paleontologist in 1987) and in Rio Negro and is the first to describe the dinosaurs Ekrixinatosaurus (with David Rubilar-Rogers and Karen Moreno 2004), Rinconsaurus (with Bernardo González Riga 2003), a species of Rebacchisaurus (with Leonardo Salgado 1995, later renamed Limaysaurus ), Andesaurus (with José Bonaparte 1991), Puertasaurus (with Fernando Novas, Salgado, Federico Agnolin 2005), Futalognkosaurus (with his doctoral student Juan Porfiri, Bernardo Gonzalez Riga and Kellner 2007), Austroraptor (with Novas et al. 2008), Macrogryphosaurus (with Novas, Porfiri 2007), Anabisetia (with Rodolfo Coria 2002), Panamericanasaurus (with Porfiri 2010), Muyelensaurus (with Gonzalez Riga and Porfiri 2007) and Traukutitan (with Rubén Darío Juárez Valieri 2011). He also discovered and first described the Cretaceous bird Neuquenornis volans (with Luis M. Chiappe 1994), various fish and crocodile species. In 2016 he was co-author of the first description of Notocolossus .
He is married and has two children.
Fonts
- Editor and co-author: Paleontología y dinosaurios desde América Latina, Mendoza: EDIUNC 2011
- J. Bernardo Gonzalez Riga, Matthew C. Lamanna, Leonardo D. David Ortiz, Jorge Calvo and Juan P. Coria: A gigantic new dinosaur from Argentina and the evolution of the sauropod hind foot . In: Scientific Reports 6 , 2016, doi : 10.1038 / srep19165 . PDF (online)
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| SURNAME | Calvo, Jorge |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Calvo, Jorge Orlando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cordoba (Argentina) |