Florentino Ameghino

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Florentino Ameghino
Florentino Ameghino
Born	Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino (1853-09-19)September 19, 1853 Moneglia, Kingdom of Sardinia
Died	August 6, 1911(1911-08-06) (aged 56) La Plata, Argentina
Resting place	La Plata Cemetery
Nationality	Argentine
Awards	Bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889) for Mammalian Fossils in the Argentine Republic.
Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology

Florentino Ameghino (born Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino; September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers – Carlos and Juan – Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology.

From 1887 until his death, Ameghino was passionately devoted to the study of fossil mammals from Patagonia, with the valuable support of his brother Carlos Ameghino (1865–1936) who, between 1887 and 1902, made 14 trips to that region, where he discovered and collected numerous fossil faunas and made important stratigraphic observations.