Jaime Powell

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

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 have osteoderms.

Research

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

Taxa named

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.