Florentino Ameghino
Natural scientist and museum director from Argentina (1854-1911) · Argentina · Academics · Lived 1853 to 1911 · aged 57
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Something wrong?Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century.
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Homage to Florentino Ameghino, by the sculptor Erminio Blotta
A new shorthand method proposed by Ameghino in 1880
Pyrotherium romeroi or beast of fire named in honor of Argentine Army Captain Antonio Romero who sent a tusk, a premolar, and two molars to Ameghino. P. romeroi is a large extinct mammal whose fossil remains were described and classified by Ameghino. Its tusks and trunk evolved separately from the elephants - the species belonged to the xenungulata within the meridiungulata.In their orbit
Sibling: Carlos AmeghinoAbout this person
Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers - Carlos and Juan - Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology.
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