Juan Carlos Fernicola
CONICET - División Paleontología
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”
Av. Ángel Gallardo 470
C1450DJR Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Argentina. jctano@yahoo.com, jctano@macn.gov.ar
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Universidad Nacional de Luján
Departamento de Ciencias Básicas
Ruta Nacional 5 y Av. Constitución
6700 Luján
Argentina
Juan Carlos Fernicola is Professor of Vertebrate Biology at the Universidad Nacional de Luján, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and researcher of CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas). He graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and obtained his PhD in Zoology from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. He is author and co-author of different contributions on systematic, phylogeny, biostratigraphy, paleobiology, and peleoecology of glyptodonts and armadillos. In the last eight years, he has done field work mainly in the Miocene Santacrucian outcrops from the Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina.
Néstor Toledo
División Paleontología Vertebrados
Museo de La Plata
Paseo del Bosque s/n
B1900FWA
La Plata
Argentina. CONICET
Néstor Toledo graduated in Palaeontology from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and obtained his PhD in functional morphology of Miocene sloths at the same institution. Currently he is performing his postdoctoral studies granted by CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas). He had published several studies in functional morphology and anatomy of fossil xenarthrans. He is teaching assistant of Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. In the last six years, he has participated in paleontological expeditions to the Miocene Santacrucian outcrops of the Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina.
M. Susana Bargo
División Paleontología Vertebrados
Museo de La Plata
Paseo del Bosque s/n
B1900FWA
La Plata
Argentina. CIC
Susana Bargo is a vertebrate paleontologist at the Museo de la Plata (Argentina), and a researcher of the Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. She graduated and obtained her PhD from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Her research to date has focused on the paleobiology of South American fossil mammals, mainly xenarthrans, through the application of functional morphology, biomechanics and morphometrics. She has authored about 50 scientific papers and book chapters, and edited one book. She was the Editor in charge of Vertebrates for Ameghiniana, winning an award in 2008 for a publication in that journal. Since 2003, she has participated in numerous field seasons to Miocene outcrops of Patagonia, Argentina.
Sergio F. Vizcaíno
División Paleontología Vertebrados
Museo de La Plata
Paseo del Bosque s/n
B1900FWA
La Plata
Argentina. CONICET
Sergio Vizcaíno is Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) and a researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas working at the Museo de La Plata. He graduated and obtained his PhD from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. His research focuses on the paleobiology of South American fossil vertebrates, mostly mammals, through the application of functional morphology, biomechanics and morphometrics. He has authored approximately 100 research papers and book chapters, and edited two books and several special volumes. He has participated in numerous fieldwork seasons in Argentina and Antarctica. He was the President of the Asociación Paleontológica Argentina (APA), and in 1996 and 2008 he won awards for his publications in Ameghiniana, the journal of the APA.
