Global Information Lookup Global Information

Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio information


Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio
MEF
MEF building
Map
EstablishedDecember 1990
LocationTrelew, Patagonia (Argentina)
Coordinates43°14′58″S 65°18′26″W / 43.249312°S 65.3073172°W / -43.249312; -65.3073172
Collection sizeMore than 17,000 fossils
Visitors70,000 (yearly average, last 5 years)
Websitewww.mef.org.ar

The Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio (MEF, in Spanish: Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio) is a science research and exhibition center in Trelew city, Patagonia, Argentina. Its permanent and travelling exhibitions focus on the fossil remains of fauna and flora of Patagonia, and the changes that affected the region over geological time. The museum is named for geologist Egidio Feruglio.

MEF is one of Argentina's main scientific institutions, with a robust research program in areas including vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, paleobotany, and ichnology, and has a group focusing on plants in semi-desert environments.

and 20 Related for: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8206 seconds.)

Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

Last Update:

The Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio (MEF, in Spanish: Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio) is a science research and exhibition center in Trelew...

Word Count : 615

Patagotitan

Last Update:

One mount is exhibited in the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio. Another is exhibited in the American Museum of Natural History, where it replaced...

Word Count : 5360

Egidio Feruglio

Last Update:

Egidio Feruglio (10 September 1897 – 14 July 1954) was an Italian-born geologist who spent most of his career in Argentina. The seventh of twelve sons...

Word Count : 416

Trelew

Last Update:

Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio, showcasing the paleontological heritage of the Patagonic region, and considered one of the most important of its...

Word Count : 1097

List of sauropodomorph type specimens

Last Update:

From The Early Cretaceous (Aptian) of North America". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 32 (11): 189–243. hdl:2027...

Word Count : 28123

Amargasaurus

Last Update:

informed Bonaparte's team about the paleontological significance of the La Amarga Formation, leading to the discovery of the skeleton. One year later, Salgado...

Word Count : 4519

Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur

Last Update:

Paleontology Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Patagonia, under the direction of Dr Diego Pol and Dr José Luis Carballido. The documentary follows the excavation of, research...

Word Count : 1538

Thylacosmilus

Last Update:

as representing a new type of marsupial, related to the borhyaenids, and were reported to the Paleontological Society of America in 1928, though without...

Word Count : 4432

Equisetum dimorphum

Last Update:

Elgorriaga, that included investigators of the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and the Buenos Aires University...

Word Count : 611

List of natural history museums

Last Update:

Museum, Santa Cruz Province Museum of Natural Sciences "Augusto G. Schulz", Chaco Province Museum of Paleontology "Egidio Feruglio" (MEF) Museum of Patagonia...

Word Count : 6129

List of museums in Argentina

Last Update:

This is a list of museums in Argentina. List of archives in Argentina List of museums by country Onetto, María; Podestá, María Mercedes (2011). "Cueva...

Word Count : 205

Patagonykus

Last Update:

Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew. Novas, F. E. 1997. Anatomy of Patagonykus puertai (Theropoda, Avialae, Alvarezsauridae), from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia...

Word Count : 690

Argentoconodon

Last Update:

possessed a combination of primitive and derived features. The tooth is currently held in the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, where it was given the...

Word Count : 590

List of other ornithischian type specimens

Last Update:

abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33...

Word Count : 2106

Prolicaphrium

Last Update:

"The Egidio Feruglio's collection in the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Padova: its importance to the knowledge of Cenozoic...

Word Count : 395

Cramauchenia

Last Update:

"The Egidio Feruglio's collection in the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Padova: its importance to the knowledge of Cenozoic...

Word Count : 2188

Pyrotherium

Last Update:

wear facets of molariform teeth of Pyrotheria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26: 760–769. Lydekker, R. 1896. A Geographical History of Mammals. Cambridge...

Word Count : 3448

Sarmiento Formation

Last Update:

"The Egidio Feruglio's collection in the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Padova: its importance to the knowledge of Cenozoic...

Word Count : 4334

Ferugliotherium

Last Update:

name, windhauseni, honor geologists who studied the geology of Patagonia: Egidio Feruglio and Anselmo Windhausen, respectively. Bonaparte created a new...

Word Count : 6150

Protypotherium

Last Update:

"The Egidio Feruglio's collection in the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Padova: its importance to the knowledge of Cenozoic...

Word Count : 6653

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net