Leonardo Salgado

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.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Leonardo SALGADO - Diccionario de científicos argentinos Dra. Cecilia Grierson". Cientificos argentinos. CAICYT. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  2. ^ Coria, Rodolfo A.; Salgado, Leonardo (September 1995). "A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia". Nature. 377 (6546): 224–226. doi:10.1038/377224a0.