Leonardo Salgado is an Argentine palaeontologist with a special interest in dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period and other investigations of the palaeobiology of fossil bearing geological formations. Salgado is the leading or coauthor of several taxa, notably the large carnivorous species, Giganotosaurus carolinii, discovered in Patagonia.
Below is a list of taxa that Salgado has contributed to naming:
| Year | Taxon | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Titanomachya gimenezi gen. et sp. nov. | Pérez-Moreno, Salgado, Carballido, Otero, & Pol |
| 2017 | Triunfosaurus leonardii gen. et sp. nov. | Carvalho, Salgado, Lindoso, De Araújo-Júnior, Nogueira, & Soares |
| 2003 | Amazonsaurus maranhensis gen. et sp. nov. | Carvalho, Avilla, & Salgado |
| 1996 | Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis gen. et sp. nov. | Coria & Salgado |
| 1995 | Giganotosaurus carolinii gen. et sp. nov. | Coria & Salgado |
References
- "Leonardo SALGADO - Diccionario de científicos argentinos Dra. Cecilia Grierson". Cientificos argentinos. CAICYT. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ^ Coria, Rodolfo Aníbal; Salgado, Leonardo (September 1995). "A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia". Nature. 377 (6546): 224–226. doi:10.1038/377224a0. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- Pérez-Moreno, Agustín; Salgado, Leonardo; Carballido, José L.; Otero, Alejandro; Pol, Diego (10 April 2024). "A new titanosaur from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina". Historical Biology: 1–20. doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2332997. ISSN 0891-2963. Retrieved 9 January 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
- Carvalho, Ismar de Souza; Salgado, Leonardo; Lindoso, Rafael Matos; De Araújo-Júnior, Hermínio Ismael; Nogueira, Francisco Cézar Costa; Soares, José Agnelo (April 2017). "A new basal titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 75: 74–84. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2017.01.010. Retrieved 11 January 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
- de Souza Carvalho, Ismar; dos Santos Avilla, Leonardo; Salgado, Leonardo (December 2003). "Amazonsaurus maranhensis gen. et sp. nov. (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) of Brazil". Cretaceous Research. 24 (6): 697–713. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2003.07.005. Retrieved 6 January 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
- Coria, Rodolfo Aníbal; Salgado, Leonardo (19 September 1996). "A basal iguanodontian (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of South America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16 (3): 445–457. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011333. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 5 January 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.