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Rodolfo Magín Casamiquela (December 11, 1932 in Ingeniero Jacobacci, Río Negro Province – December 5, 2008 in Cipolletti, Río Negro) was an Argentine paleontologist, archeologist, historian, writer, and teacher, best known for his discovering of the dinosaur Pisanosaurus mertii in 1967.[1]
Rodolfo Magín Casamiquela | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 11, 1932 |
| Died | December 5, 2008 (aged 75) Cipolletti, Río Negro Province, Argentina |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | paleontology |
- Konex Platino (2006)
Casamiquela is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Liolaemus casamiquelai.[2]
Casamiquela published over 20 books and various reports. This list contains some of them (all in Spanish):
- Sobre la significación mágica del arte rupestre nordpatagónico (1960)
- Estudio de Nillatum y la religión araucana (1964)
- Rectificaciones y ratificaciones hacia una interpretación definitiva del panorama etnológico de la Patagonia y área septentrional adyacente (1965)
- Noticias sobre una breve expedición arqueológica a la zona de Lihuel Calel (provincia de la Pampa) y observaciones complementarias (1967)
- En pos del gualicho (1988)
- El otro lado de los viajes (1993)
- Toponimia indígena de la provincia de La Pampa (2005)
- Los ríos mesetarios norpatagónicos: aguas generosas del Ande al Atlántico (2010, publicación póstuma, con varios autores)
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