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
* ''
Aeolosaurus rionegrinus''
* ''
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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References
1953 births
2016 deaths
Argentine paleontologists
20th-century Argentine biologists
21st-century Argentine scientists
People from Córdoba, Argentina
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