Altangerel Perle (born 1945) is a
Mongolian
palaeontologist. He is employed at the
National University of Mongolia.
He has described species such as ''
Goyocephale lattimorei'', ''
Achillobator giganticus
''Achillobator'' ( ; meaning "Achilles hero") is a genus of large dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period about 96 million to 89 million years ago in what is now the Bayan Shireh Formation. The genus is curren ...
'' and ''
Erlikosaurus andrewsi''. He has been honored by Polish palaeontologist
Halszka Osmólska
Halszka Osmólska (September 15, 1930 – March 31, 2008) was a Polish paleontologist who had specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs.
Biography
She was born in 1930 in Poznań. In 1949, she began to study biology at Faculty of Biology and Earth Scie ...
, who named the species ''
Hulsanpes perlei
''Hulsanpes'' ( meaning " Khulsan foot") is a genus of halszkaraptorine theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia, about 75-72 million years ago. The remains were found in 1970 a ...
'' after him.
References
1945 births
Living people
Mongolian paleontologists
National University of Mongolia faculty
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