Jose Bonaparte

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Jose Bonaparte, famed Argentine paleontologist and expert on Dinosauria, whose contributions to the field are difficult to justly summarize. Bonaparte was among the first to argue for dinosaur holophyly during the modernist era of dinosaur science, and his work on Lagosuchus largely laid the groundwork for Gauthier's subsequent cladistic analysis in which the clade Ornithodira was delineated. Bonaparte did landmark work on the theropods of South America, recovered the great bulk of the fossils from which Walker would describe Enantiornithes in 1981, discovered the marvelous Iberian enantiornithine Iberomesornis romerali, and carried out brilliant research on Pterosauria of South America, prompting something of a renaissance in pterosaur studies.

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