Jorge Orlando Calvo (27 April 1961 – 10 January 2023)Pesar en Neuquén por la muerte del paleontólogo Jorge Calvo was an Argentine geologist and paleontologist working for "Centro de Investigaciones Paleontológicas Lago Barreales" (National University of Comahue).

Life and career Jorge Orlando Calvo was born in Córdoba, Argentina, on 27 April 1961. He was a professor in Geology and Paleontology at the National University of Comahue, Neuquén. He was one of the founders of the Geology Career (2010) at this university as well as the Director of the Barreales Lake Paleontological Center.

Calvo became a geologist in 1986 and in 1991 he won a Fulbright scholarship to do a Master in Paleontological Sciences (1992) at the University of Illinois Chicago, getting his degree in 1994. In 2006, he earned his PhD degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Calvo devoted his life to the discovering, digging and studying of Vertebrate Paleontology. He was the first palaeontologist to live and work in the Neuquén province. He was both author and co-author of many discoveries of his own about new taxa in dinosaurs, birds, crocodiles, frogs, turtles, eggs and dinosaur tracks. Calvo was the first palaeontologist to have helped develop not only the Paleontological Science in Norpatagonia (1987), but also the Paleontological Tourism. He was the founder of the Geology and Paleontology Museum of the National University of Comahue (1990), the Paleontological Museum of Rincón de los Sauces (2000) and the Barreales Lake Paleontological Center (2002).

As a researcher of the National University of Comahue, he was the Director of more than 15 national and international research projects led from institutions such as Conicet, Agencia Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia and Universidad Nacional del Comahue (Argentina), Duke Foundation of United States, Dinosaur Society of America, National Geographic Society, etc.

Calvo was the director of theses for graduates, masters and PhD students. He published more than 88 scientific papers and more than 60 in non-specialist magazines. He also read more than 135 papers and lectures at Congresses of the specialty worldwide.

Calvo was invited to lecture on dinosaurs from Norpatagonia in different cities of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Finland, Romania and Serbia. He was also a coordinator in more than 25 events of paleontological shows, exhibitions and Interactive museums.

He both described and co-described many species: Andesaurus delgadoi Calvo & Bonaparte, 1991 Picunichnus benedettoi Calvo, 1991 (a) Sauropodichnus giganteus Calvo, 1991 (a) Sousaichnium monetae Calvo, 1991 (a) Deferrariischnium mapuchensis Calvo, 1991 (a) Limayichnus major Calvo, 1991 (a) Neuquenornis volans Chiappe & Calvo, 1994 Limaysaurus tessonei Calvo & Salgado, 1995 (b) Megaloolithus patagonicus Calvo, Engelland, Heredia & Salgado, 1997 (c) Avitabatrachus uliana Báez, Trueb & Calvo, 2000 Araripesuchus patagonicus Ortega, Gasparini, Buscalioni & Calvo, 2000 Anabisetia saldiviai Coria & Calvo, 2002 Rinconsaurus caudamirus Calvo & González Riga, 2003 Unenlagia paynemili Calvo, Porfiri & Kellner, 2004 Ekrixinatosaurus novasi Calvo, Rubillar-Rogers & Moreno, 2004 Puertasaurus reuili Novas, Salgado, Calvo & Agnolin, 2005 Pehuenchesuchus enderi Turner & Calvo, 2005 Futalognkosaurus dukei Calvo, Porfiri, González Riga & Kellner, 2007 Neuquensuchus universitas Fiorelli & Calvo, 2007 Muyelensaurus pecheni Calvo, González Riga & Porfiri, 2007 Macrogryphosaurus gondwanicus Calvo, Porfiri & Novas, 2007 Linderochelys rinconensis De la Fuente, Calvo & Gonzalez Riga, 2007 Austroraptor cabazai Novas, Pol, Canale, Porfiri & Calvo, 2009 Titanopodus mendozensis Gonzalez Riga & Calvo, 2009 Panamericansaurus schroederi Calvo & Porfiri, 2010 Willinakaqe salitralensis R. D. Juárez Valieri, J. A. Haro, L. E. Fiorelli & J. O. Calvo, 2010 Pamparaptor micros J. D. Porfiri, J. O. Calvo and D. Dos Santos, 2011 Leufuichthys minimus Gallo, Calvo & Kellner, 2011 Traukutitan eocaudata Juárez Valieri & Calvo, 2011 Notocolossus gonzalezparejasi B. J. González Riga, M. C. Lamanna, L. D. Ortiz David, J. O. Calvo & J. P. Coria, 2016

He died on 10 January 2023, aged 61, in Neuquén, Argentina.

References

(a) Calvo, J.O. 1991. Huellas de dinosaurios en la Formación Río Limay (Albiano-Cenomaniano) Picún Leufú. Provincia del Neuquén . Argentina. (Ornithischia-Saurischia: Saurópoda-Terópoda) Ameghiniana, 28 (3–4): 241–258.

(b) Calvo, J. O. y L. Salgado, 1995. Rebbachisaurus tessonei sp. nov. a new sauropod of the Albian-Cenomanian of Argentina; new evidence on the origin of the Diplodocidae. GAIA 11:13-33.

(c) Calvo, J.O.; Engelland, S.; Heredia, S. Salgado, L. 1997. First record of dinosaur eggshells (?Sauropoda-Megaloolithidae) from Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. GAIA Portugal. 14:23-32.

External links Publicaciones del Dr. Jorge Orlando Calvo