Llewellyn Ivor Price Explained

Llewellyn Ivor Price
Birth Date:October 9, 1905
Birth Place:Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Death Place:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Field:Palaeontology, geology

Llewellyn Ivor Price (October 9, 1905  - June 9, 1980) was one of the first Brazilian paleontologists. His work contributed not only to the development of Brazilian but also to global paleontology. He collected Staurikosaurus in 1936, the first dinosaur discovered in Brazil.

Biography

Price was born in Santa Maria on October 9, 1905. The son of American parents, he studied chemistry and graduated in zoology and geology in the United States. After being professor at Harvard he returned to Brazil.

He died of a heart attack in Rio de Janeiro on June 9, 1980, aged 79.

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  1. http://www.sbgeo.org.br/index.php/sbgeo/realizacoes Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia: Prêmios (Accessed March 2011)