Ameghiniana is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 palaeontology

Paleontology

Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

 journal published by the Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. The journal is named after the 19th century Italian Argentine

Italian Argentine

An Italian Argentine is a person born in Argentina of Italian ancestry. It is estimated up to 25 million Argentines have some degree of Italian descent...

 palaeontologist

Paleontology

Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

 Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist.Born in Luján, son of Italian immigrants, Ameghino was a self-taught naturalist, and focused his study on the lands of the southern Pampas...

. The discovery of many dinosaur

Dinosaur

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s found in Argentina

Argentina

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 and South America have first been published in Ameghiniana, examples of this are Argentinosaurus

Argentinosaurus

Argentinosaurus is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur first discovered by Guillermo Heredia in Argentina. The generic name refers to the country in which it was discovered...

 and Herrerasaurus

Herrerasaurus

Herrerasaurus was one of the earliest dinosaurs. All known specimens of this carnivore have been discovered in rocks of late Ladinian age in northwestern Argentina...

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Abstracting and indexing

Articles in this journal are indexed in the following databases:

• Bibliography and Index of Geology
• Biological Abstracts
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• Current Contents
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• Geological Abstracts
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• PASCAL
• Referativny Zhurnal
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• The Zoological Record
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External links

• Asociación Paleontológica Argentina