Leonardo Salgado
Leonardo Salgado (* 1939 ) is an Argentine vertebrate paleontologist who studies dinosaurs .
Salgado received his PhD from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in 1962 . He conducts research for the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and is at the Geological-Paleontological Museum of the Universidad Nacional de Comahue in Neuquén .
1995 erstbeschrieb it with Rodolfo Coria one of the largest known carnivorous dinosaurs Giganotosaurus . In 2006, together with Zulma Gasparini, he described the first dinosaur found in Antarctica , the ankylosaur Antarctopelta (from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island ).
Other first descriptions are limaysaurus , Amargasaurus (with José Bonaparte 1991) Rebbachisaurus , zapalasaurus , Gasparinisaura (with Coria) pellegrinisaurus , rocasaurus , uberabatitan , Petrobrasaurus , Comahuesaurus , Demandasaurus , Amazonsaurus , Barrosasaurus , ilokelesia and he examined the development of titanosaurs and erstbeschrieb with Jorge Calvo and Federico Agnolin found the titanosaur Puertasaurus .
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| SURNAME | Salgado, Leonardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine vertebrate paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |