Jaime Powell

Jaime Eduardo Powell (January 13, 1953 – February 1, 2016) was an Argentine paleontologist who described the titanosaur sauropod dinosaur taxa Aeolosaurus and found evidence that titanosaurs that osteoderms.[1]

Jaime E. Powell
Born(1953-01-13)January 13, 1953
Córdoba, Argentina
Died1 February 2016(2016-02-01) (aged 63)

Research

Powell described the first convincing fossil evidence that titanosaurs had osteoderms.[2]

Taxa named
  • Aeolosaurus rionegrinus[3]
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gollark: > I'm a very quiet polite person. I have agoraphobia, I never leave or bother anyone> Tbh I'm about to just beat him sensless.
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References
  1. "Despiden a Jaime Powell, destacado paleontólogo - La Gaceta". lagaceta.com.ar. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  2. Powell, J. E. (1980). "Sobre la presencia de una armadura dérmica en algunos dinosaurios titanosáuridos". Acta Geologica Lilloana. 15: 41–47.
  3. Powell, Jaime Eduardo (1987). "The Late Cretaceous fauna of Los Alamitos, Patagonia, Argentina. Part VI. The titanosaurids". Revista del Museo Argentino de Siencias Naturales. 3: 111–142.
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