Fernando Emilio Novas (born 1960) is an Argentine paleontologist working for the Comparative Anatomy Department of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1] Novas holds a PhD in Natural sciences.
Working for the CONICET, he described or co-described many dinosaurs, among them Abelisaurus, Aniksosaurus, Aragosaurus, Austroraptor, Chilesaurus, Megaraptor, Neuquenraptor, Orkoraptor, Patagonykus, Unenlagia, Araucanoraptor, Skorpiovenator, Tyrannotitan, Talenkauen, and Puertasaurus, most from the Patagonia region of Argentina. Chilesaurus diegosuarezi [2] made the cover of Nature magazine on June 18, 2015.[3] In 2023 he was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma for his work in Paleontology in the last decade.[4]
References
edit- ^ Novas, Fernando E. Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Novas, F. E.; Salgado, L.; Suárez, M.; Agnolín, F. L.; Ezcurra, M. N. D.; Chimento, N. S. R.; de la Cruz, R.; Isasi, M. P.; Vargas, A. O.; Rubilar-Rogers, D. (2015). "An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile". Nature. 522 (7556): 331–4. Bibcode:2015Natur.522..331N. doi:10.1038/nature14307. PMID 25915021. S2CID 4407531.
- ^ Novas, Fernando E.; Salgado, Leonardo; Suárez, Manuel; Agnolín, Federico L.; Ezcurra, Martín D.; Chimento, Nicolás R.; de la Cruz, Rita; Isasi, Marcelo P.; Vargas, Alexander O.; Rubilar-Rogers, David (2015). "An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile". Nature. 522 (7556): 331–334. Bibcode:2015Natur.522..331N. doi:10.1038/nature14307. PMID 25915021. S2CID 4407531.
- ^ Fundación Konex (2 May 2023). "Premios Konex 2023: Ciencia y Tecnología. Ya se conocen los Diplomas al Mérito". fundacionkonex.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-05-15.
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