Leonardo Salgado

Leonardo Salgado is an Argentine palaeontologist with a special interest in dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period and other investigations of the palaeobiology of fossil bearing geological formations. Salgado is the leading or coauthor of several taxa, notably the large carnivorous species, ''Giganotosaurus carolinii'', discovered in Patagonia.

Below is a list of taxa that Salgado has contributed to naming: {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Taxon !Authors |- |2024 |''Titanomachya gimenezi'' gen. et sp. nov. |Pérez-Moreno, Salgado, Carballido, Otero, & Pol |- |2020 |''Punatitan coughlini'' gen. et sp. nov. |Hechenleitner, Leuzinger, Martinelli, Rocher, Fiorelli, Taborda, & Salgado |- |2020 |''Bravasaurus arrierosorum'' gen. et sp. nov. |Hechenleitner, Leuzinger, Martinelli, Rocher, Fiorelli, Taborda, & Salgado |- |2017 |''Isaberrysaura mollensis'' gen. et sp. nov. |Salgado, Canudo, Garrido, Moreno-Azanza, Martínez, Coria, & Gasca |- |2017 |''Triunfosaurus leonardii'' gen. et sp. nov. |Carvalho, Salgado, Lindoso, De Araújo-Júnior, Nogueira, & Soares |- |2003 |''Amazonsaurus maranhensis'' gen. et sp. nov. |Carvalho, Avilla, & Salgado |- |1996 |''Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis'' gen. et sp. nov. |Coria & Salgado |- |1995 |''Giganotosaurus carolinii'' gen. et sp. nov. |Coria & Salgado |} Provided by Wikipedia