Florentino Ameghino
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Image:Florentino Ameghino.jpg Florentino Ameghino (September 18 1854 – August 6,1911) was an Argentinian naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist.
He was an autodidactic, and studied the lands of the southern Pampa. He formed one of the largest collections of fossiles of the world at the time, which served him as base for an important number of studies in Geology and Paleontology. He also investigated the prehistoric man at the yacement of Chelles (Argentina).
He was appointed professor of Zoology at the University of Córdoba, subdirector of the La Plata Museum (one of the largest in Paleontology, Zoology, Anthropology and Archeology in South America) and director of the National Museum of Buenos Aires.
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