Fernando Novas
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Fernando Emilio Novas is an Argentine
paleontologist
working for the Comparative Anatomy
Department of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural History Argentine Museum in Buenos Aires
. Novas holds a PhD
in Natural sciences.
Working for the CONICET, he described or co-described many dinosaur
s, among them Abelisaurus
, Aniksosaurus
, Aragosaurus
, Austroraptor
, Megaraptor
, Neuquenraptor
, Orkoraptor
, Patagonykus
, Unenlagia
, Araucanoraptor, Skorpiovenator
, Tyrannotitan
, Talenkauen
, and Puertasaurus
, most from the Patagonia
region of Argentina.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
paleontologist
Paleontology
Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...
working for the Comparative Anatomy
Comparative anatomy
Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary biology and phylogeny .-Description:...
Department of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural History Argentine Museum in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
. Novas holds a PhD
PHD
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in Natural sciences.
Working for the CONICET, he described or co-described many dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s, among them Abelisaurus
Abelisaurus
Abelisaurus is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It was a bipedal carnivore that probably reached 7 to 9 meters in length, although it is known from only one partial skull.The generic name recognizes Roberto Abel as the...
, Aniksosaurus
Aniksosaurus
Aniksosaurus was a genus of dinosaur from what is now present-day Chubut Province, Argentina. It was a theropod, specifically a coelurosaur, which lived in the middle Cretaceous period...
, Aragosaurus
Aragosaurus
Aragosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, province of Teruel, in the autonomous territory of Aragón, Spain....
, Austroraptor
Austroraptor
Austroraptor was a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived about 70 million years ago during the Cretaceous period in what is now modern Argentina. The type species for the genus, Austroraptor cabazai, was described in late 2008 by Fernando Novas of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales...
, Megaraptor
Megaraptor
Megaraptor is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in the Coniacian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been discovered in the Patagonian region of Argentina...
, Neuquenraptor
Neuquenraptor
Neuquenraptor is a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous of Argentina, one of the first dromaeosaurids found in the Southern Hemisphere....
, Orkoraptor
Orkoraptor
Orkoraptor is a genus of large theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of Argentina. It is known from incomplete fossil remains including parts of the skull, teeth, tail vertebrae, and a partial tibia. The specialized teeth resemble those of some maniraptoriform theropods, namely the...
, Patagonykus
Patagonykus
Patagonykus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. This alvarezsaur was discovered in exposures of the Portezuelo Member of the Rio Neuquen Formation in the Neuquen Province of Argentina...
, Unenlagia
Unenlagia
Unenlagia is a genus of, possibly dromaeosaurid, theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina....
, Araucanoraptor, Skorpiovenator
Skorpiovenator
Skorpiovenator is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Argentina.The type species, Skorpiovenator bustingorryi, is known from a single, nearly complete skeleton missing only most of the forelimbs and parts of the tail...
, Tyrannotitan
Tyrannotitan
Tyrannotitan is a genus of huge bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the carcharodontosaurid family from the Aptian stage of the early Cretaceous period, discovered in Argentina. It is closely related to other giant predators like Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus...
, Talenkauen
Talenkauen
Talenkauen is a genus of basal iguanodont dinosaur from the Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Pari Aike Formation of Lake Viedma, Santa Cruz, Argentina. It is based on MPM-10001, a partial articulated skeleton missing the rear part of the skull, the tail, and the hands...
, and Puertasaurus
Puertasaurus
Puertasaurus is a genus of titanosaurid sauropod that appeared during the Late Cretaceous. It lived in what is now Patagonia. The type species, Puertasaurus reuili, is named in honor of Pablo Puerta and Santiago Reuil, the co-discoverers in January 2001 of the specimen...
, most from the Patagonia
Patagonia
Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...
region of Argentina.