Altangerel Perle

Altangerel Pearl ( born July 1, 1945) is a Mongolian vertebrate paleontologist. He is a professor in the Faculty of Geology of the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar.

He is also quoted P. Altangerel.

He studied at the Moscow State University, where he completed his habilitation in 1991 (Russian doctorate degrees). Originally, he is an engineer and also worked in the late 1960s in this profession. Since the 1970s he's excavator of fossils.

He dug in by him with reference discovered Ukhaa Tolgod out in the Gobi Desert and is one of the first to describe dromaeosaurid Achillobator giganticus ( with Mark Norell, James Matthew Clark 1999), Goyocephale lattimorei ( with Teresa Maryańska, Halszka Osmólska 1982), Erlikosaurus andrewsi (1980 named with bars Bold, by a demon Erlik the Mongolian mythology) and Mononykus ( 1993 Luis M. Chiappe and James Clark), Harpymimus okladnikovi ( with Rinchen bars Bold 1984), Enigmosaurus mongolensis ( with bars Bold 1983), Segnosaurus galbinensis ( 1979 Bold bars ). The Segnosaurus discoveries were the first finds of Therizinosauroidea, Erlikosaurus also belongs to this group. He also unearthed fossils of Velociraptor and Protoceratops.

He worked together with both the expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History from 1991 as well as with the earlier expeditions from the Soviet Union and Poland.

Halszka Osmolska named 1982 primitive theropods Hulsanpes perlei after him.