Jaime Eduardo Powell (January 13, 1953 – February 1, 2016) was an Argentine

paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

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 Titanosaurs (or titanosaurians; members of the group Titanosauria) were a diverse group of Sauropoda, sauropod dinosaurs, including genera from all seven continents. The titanosaurs were the last surviving group of long-necked sauropods, with tax ...

had osteoderms.

Taxa named

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Aeolosaurus rionegrinus ''Aeolosaurus'' (; "Aeolus' lizard") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. Like most sauropods, it would have been a quadrupedal herbivore with a long neck and tail. ''Aeolosau ...

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Unquillosaurus ceibalii ''Unquillosaurus'' (meaning "Unquillo river lizard") is a genus of large theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Blanquitos Formation of Salta Province, Argentina. Its precise classification is uncertain, but most researchers consider it ...

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1953 births 2016 deaths Argentine paleontologists 20th-century Argentine biologists 21st-century Argentine scientists People from Córdoba, Argentina {{Argentina-scientist-stub