Rodolfo Coria

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Rodolfo Coria (born June 1, 1959 in Neuquén ) is an Argentine paleontologist , known as the excavator of dinosaurs in Patagonia .

Coria was a senior scientist at the Natural History Museum Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia in Buenos Aires , where he studied with José Bonaparte . He is the founder of the Museo Municipal Carmen Funes dinosaur museum in Plaza Huincul and was its director from 1984 to 2007. He has been a member of the Argentine national research council CONICET since 2007.

He is one of the excavators of Argentinosaurus (which he first described with José Bonaparte in 1993 ), the largest known land animal, and one of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever found, Giganotosaurus (1995, with Leonardo Salgado (* 1962)). Replicas of both are in his museum in Plaza Huincul. He was one of the discoverers of the first sauropod embryos in a clutch of hundreds of well-preserved eggs in Auca Mahuevo in Patagonia. From 1999 to 2001 he and the Canadian paleontologist Philip J. Currie excavated a group of six specimens of predatory dinosaurs, which they named Mapusaurus in 2006 . Other of his discoveries are a medium-sized predatory dinosaur Quilmesaurus and the herbivorous little gasparini aura .

In addition to Patagonia, he has also participated in expeditions to Antarctica and Asia.

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  • Basal Ornithopoda (with Hans-Dieter Sues, Lawrence Witmer, David Norman), Dinosauria Distribution (with Paul Barrett and others) in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2nd edition 2004

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luis M. Chiappe, Rodolfo A. Coria, Lowell Dingus, Frankie Jackson Anusuya Chinsamy & Marilyn Fox: Sauropod dinosaur embryos from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature, Volume 396, 1998, p. 258. doi : 10.1038 / 24370
personal data
SURNAME Coria, Rodolfo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuquén