Jorge O. Calvo

Jorge Orlando Calvo (* April 27, 1961 in Cordoba (Argentina ) ) is an Argentine vertebrate paleontologist who deals primarily with dinosaurs.

Calvo studied Geology at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba with the completion in 1986, then was an assistant of José Bonaparte in Buenos Aires in 1992 and went on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Chicago, where in 1994 he received his master's degree. In 2006 he received his doctorate at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in zoology. He is a lecturer since 1987 and in 1991 professor at the Universidad de Internacionale Comahue ( Faculty of Engineering, Institute of Geology and oil) in Neuquén and a research associate in the local Museum of Geology and Paleontology, which he headed from 1994 to 2000. He founded in 2000 the Paleontological Museum of Rincón de los Sauces and 2002, the paleontological center on the Lake Barreales (Centro Lago Paleontológico Barreales ) on which he is a director today.

He dug out especially in the Neuquén province ( in which he 1987, the systematic search for dinosaurs as a paleontologist nudged ) and 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 kind of Rebacchisaurus ( with Leonardo Salgado in 1995, later renamed Limaysaurus ) Andesaurus ( with José Bonaparte 1991), Puertasaurus ( with Fernando Novas, Salgado, Federico Agnolin 2005), Futalognkosaurus ( with his Ph.D. student Juan Porphyrius, Bernardo Gonzalez Riga and Kellner 2007), Austro Raptor ( with Novas, among others 2008), Macrogryphosaurus ( with Novas, Porphyrius 2007), Anabisetia ( with Rodolfo Coria 2002), Panamericanasaurus ( with Porphyrius 2010), Muyelensaurus ( with Gonzalez Riga and Porphyrius 2007) and Traukutitan ( with Rubén Darío Juárez Valieri 2011). In addition, he discovered and erstbeschrieb the Cretaceous bird Neuquenornis volans ( with Luis M. Chiappe 1994), various fish and crocodile -like.

He is married and has two children.

Writings

  • Editor and co-author: Paleontologia dinosaurios y desde América Latina, Mendoza: EDIUNC 2011
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