Jaime Powell Explained

Jaime Eduardo Powell
Birth Date:	13 January 1953
Birth Place:	Córdoba, Argentina

Jaime Eduardo Powell (January 13, 1953 – February 1, 2016) was an Argentine paleontologist who described the titanosaur sauropod dinosaur taxa Aeolosaurus and found evidence that titanosaurs have osteoderms.^[1]

Research

Powell described the first convincing fossil evidence that titanosaurs had osteoderms.^[2]

Taxa named

• Aeolosaurus rionegrinus^[3]
• Unquillosaurus ceibalii

Notes and References

1. Web site: Despiden a Jaime Powell, destacado paleontólogo - La Gaceta. lagaceta.com.ar. 2016-02-05.
2. J. E. . Powell . 1980 . Sobre la presencia de una armadura dérmica en algunos dinosaurios titanosáuridos . Acta Geologica Lilloana . 15 . 41–47 .
3. Jaime Eduardo . Powell . 1987 . The Late Cretaceous fauna of Los Alamitos, Patagonia, Argentina. Part VI. The titanosaurids. . Revista del Museo Argentino de Siencias Naturales . 3 . 111–142 .