Fernando Novas

Fernando Emilio Novas is an Argentine vertebrate paleontologist who deals with dinosaurs.

Novas received his doctorate at the Universidad de la Plata and is a student of José Bonaparte. He works at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia. He is a Fellow of the National Geographic Society and conducts research for the Argentinean Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina ( CONICET ).

He dug by dinosaurs in Patagonia ( and also in India, Bolivia, Brazil, the USA ) and discovered numerous ways. He is one of the first describer of the 70- million year old Titanosauriers Puertasaurus reuili ( with Leonardo Salgado, Jorge Calvo, Federico Agnolin 2005), Neuquenraptor ( with Diego Pol 2005), Patagonykus (1996 ), the bird-like Uenlagia ( with Pablo F. Puerta, 1997 ), Austro Raptor ( with D. Pol, JI Canale, JD Porphyrius, Jorge Calvo 2008), Mega Raptor (1996 ), Aniksosaurus ( with Rubén Dario Martinez 2006), Skorpiovenator ( with Canale, CA Scanferla, Agnolin, 2009), Tyrannotitan ( with S. de Valais, Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers - Rich 2005), Talenkauen ( with Andrea Cambiaso, Alfredo Ambrioso 2004), Rahiolisaurus, Orkoraptor ( with Martin D. Ezcurra, A. Lecuona 2008), Abelisaurus ( with José Bonaparte in 1985 ), Frenguellisaurus (1986) and Aragosaurus ( with Sanz, among others 1987). With Paul Sereno, he examined a 1988 new-found complete skeleton of Herrerasaurus.

He was Ekrixinatosaurus novasi named in honor.

Writings

  • Buenos Aires, un años atrás de Millón, Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores. Ciencia que ladra. 2006
  • The Age of Dinosaurs in South America, Indiana University Press, 2009
  • Federico L. Angolin Avian Ancestors: a review of the phylogenetic relationships of the theropods Unenlagiidae, Microraptoria, Anchiornis and Scansoriopterygidae, Springer Verlag 2013
  • Dinosaur monophyly, J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, 1996, 723-741, doi: 10.1080/02724634.1996.10011361
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