''Vicentino Prestes de Almeida'', (Born 1900 in Chiniquá,

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) was a Brazilian

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. He died on October 28, 1954, in São Pedro do Sul.

Biography

Prestes was a self-taught

. Beginning in 1925, he worked with many visiting

s in both Santa Maria and São Pedro do Sul in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Many of the fossils collected by Prestes are in

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s in

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, such as the

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, the Zoobotanical Natural History Museum of Rio Grande do Sul, the

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and the Museum of Paleontology Irajá Damiani Pinto.

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named the carnivorous

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reptile

Prestosuchus chiniquensis ''Prestosuchus'' (meaning "Prestes crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian in the group Loricata, which also includes ''Saurosuchus'' and '' Postosuchus''. It has historically been referred to as a "rauisuchian", and was the defining me ...

in Prestes's honor (from Prestes and Chiniquá, his birthplace). Prestes organized and arranged the fossils for the Instituto de Educação General Flores da Cunha"Parque Farroupilha (Redenção): Instituto de Educação General Flores da Cunha"
in Portuguese; archived a
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and contributed considerably to the Paleorrota Geopark.

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