Ameghino Formation
Ameghino may refer to: * Carlos Ameghino (1865-1936), Argentine paleontologist and explorer, brother of Florentino * Florentino Ameghino (1853-1911), Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, brother of Carlos * Sabrina Ameghino (born 1980), Argentinian sprint canoeist * Ameghino (crater), a lunar crater * Ameghino Gully Ameghino Gully () is a gully running east–west through the outcrops on the west side of Longing Peninsula, Nordenskjold Coast, Antarctica. The name derives from Refugio Ameghino, the Argentine refuge situated on the southwest side of Longing G ..., a landform in Longing Peninsula, Nordenskjold Coast, Antarctica See also * Centro Ameghino, a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina * {{dab, surname ...
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Carlos Ameghino
Carlos Ciriaco Ameghino (16 June 1865 – 12 April 1936) was an Argentine paleontologist and explorer who accompanied his brother Florentino Ameghino throughout Argentina searching for fossils. Scientific career Carlos Ameghino was educated as a naturalist with his brother Florentino Ameghino on his journeys to Buenos Aires and the Chaco Province in Argentina. The goal of this expedition was to collect fossils. In 1887, he decided to explore South Argentina, and the watersheds of the Santa Cruz River, the Chubut River, the Chico River, the Deseado River, the Gallegos River, and the Straits of Megellan. He discovered many fossils and created several geological and paleontological Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (geology), epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes t ...